DOL Foreign Farmworker Organizing Rule Withstands Challenge (1)

A trade group representing North Carolina farmers failed to show that a final rule providing foreign farmworkers with union organizing protections is unlawful, a federal district court said.

The North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation Inc. didn’t show show that the rule, which affects farmworkers on H-2A visas, conflicts with the National Labor Relations Act or violates the major questions doctrine, Judge Louise W. Flanagan of the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina said in a Monday order granting the government summary judgment.

Although the organizing protections were enjoined by a previous court order, other provisions of ...