Dear MoveOn member,
Kamala Harris here. First, let me just say that I hope that you and your loved ones are taking care of one another the best you can right now. We need to be there for each other as we listen to public health experts and work to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic together.
I'm writing to you because I believe in economic justice and basic fairness for everyone. It was troubling for me to hear NPR's reporting that the new White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to cut wages of hundreds of thousands of essential farm workers.1
Instead of supporting and protecting all essential frontline farm workers during this crisis, the Trump administration is seeking to lower wages for some of them. They want you to be distracted with their attacks on the World Health Organization, governors, and the media, but we can't lose sight of this critical issue. It is absurd to even consider cutting farm workers' wages—we must fight for all farm workers.
As my friends at the UFW point out, the wage cuts sought by the Trump administration will not only hurt vulnerable guest farm workers, they will depress wages for all farm workers nationwide. Agriculture industry "aid" that excludes the essential workforce and drives down wages is a clear warning sign to working people in every industry.
Many farm workers are already vastly underpaid for doing backbreaking work to put food on our tables.
While we're staying at home, they are out there working hard for their families and yours.
Frankly, they deserve a raise—not a pay cut.
Sign this petition from the United Farm Workers.
Thank you.
–Kamala Harris
Source:
1. "White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry," NPR, April 10, 2020
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