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Labor

Team of gardeners picking mizuna at leafy vegetables farm

Labor Department suspends contested H-2A worker protection rule

The U.S. Department of Labor has suspended a contested measure that extended protections to H-2A workers who organize to form labor unions. Compone... more »

Coalition seeks transparency in AEWR calculation process

The Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (GFVGA) and the North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission (NCSC) have assembled a five-state, 30-organ... more »

Labor Survey 2024

Short-staffed? Crushing it? Tell us in GPN’s 2025 Labor Survey

Help shape the future (and maybe save your sanity). Let’s face it — labor is the make-or-break issue for so many greenhouse businesses. And yet, ... more »

Hands are holding trays of potted plants

Labor logistics present a complicated puzzle

As amped-up enforcement of existing immigration policy and the creation of new regulations stoke uncertainty in the agricultural community, those clos... more »

Trump suggests legal pathway for undocumented farmworkers amid deportation push

President Donald Trump has suggested a new plan that could allow undocumented agricultural workers to gain legal status, if they voluntarily leave... more »

NCAE in search of new president and CEO

The National Council of Agricultural Employers (NCAE) needs a new leader to fill its president and CEO position following the planned retirement of Mi... more »