Justice for Farmworkers Campaign

Over ten years ago a number of organizations and individuals joined with farmworkers across New York to create the Justice For Farmworkers Campaign. The Campaign’s primary goal was to improve working and living conditions for New York’s farmworkers – primarily through organizing. RMM was one of the original founding members of the Campaign

The Campaign realized that organizing among farmworkers in New York was greatly hindered by New York labor law which denied farmworkers protection while bargaining collectively. Since the 1930’s New York’s farmworkers have been excluded from the same rights and protections that most other workers take for granted, including a day of rest per week, overtime pay, disability insurance, and the right to bargain collectively with their employers.