migrant farmworkers

VPR News

Farmworkers Ask Lawmakers For State Identification

By John Dillon | February 23, 2012

Immigrant farmworkers are asking lawmakers for a form of state identification that they say will ease their isolation on the farm and help them qualify for state programs. Their ultimate goal is to be eligible for a Vermont driver’s license.

Vermont Edition

Vermont’s Bias-Free Policing Policy

By Jane Lindholm | November 9, 2011

The arrest of two migrant farmworkers during a routine traffic stop has effected a change in the state’s bias-free policing policy, the Governor appointed an advisory panel to look at the state’s investment in UVM and gold fever has struck in Central Vermont, again.

VPR News

Advocates Protest Farm Worker Arrest

By Neal Charnoff | September 13, 2011

Human rights activists say two Vermont migrant farmworkers who were passengers in a car that was stopped for speeding on Tuesday have been detained by police. Representatives of the Vermont Workers Center say the state trooper who pulled the car over had no cause to ask the men for their identification.

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Farmworker Files Complaint For Unpaid Wages

By John Dillon | November 19, 2010

A Mexican farmworker has filed a complaint against a Charlotte dairy farm for unpaid wages. The worker says she and two other employees are owed more than $4,000.

Vermont Edition

“Silenced Voices”

By Mitch Wertlieb | July 13, 2010

A new documentary produced by the Vermont Migrant Farmworkers Solidarity Project travels to a remote village in Chiapas to learn where many of Vermont’s workers call home. Also, a look at a project that would bring electricity from Canada to New York City through underground cables in Lake Champlain.