By: Ag. Reporter Mollie Goode
Attorney General Russell Coleman has announced what he calls a victory for farmers, as a group of attorneys general challenged a Biden-Harris Administration rule targeting farmers.
General Coleman led the group and opposed a U.S. Department of Labor’s rule that creates labor unions on farmers that participate in the H-2A Visa Program. The attorneys general filed a motion and intervened with a lawsuit, then the arguments were made and led to a temporary injunction early this month.
A news release from General Coleman says, the H-2A Visa Program allows farmers to hire foreign workers for temporary agriculture work when they are unable to find domestic work. Coleman contends the new regulation would have made it a requirement that farmers allow temporary foreign-migrant workers to engage in collective bargaining.
General Coleman says, “We should be working to help Kentucky’s farmers, not put them out of business. This unlawful and unnecessary rule from the Biden-Harris Administration would have made it harder to get farmers’ products to grocery store shelves and would have increased already high prices for families.”