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ANLA Backs Labor Reform Bills11-01-03 | News
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Washington, D.C. ?EUR??,,????'??+ The American Nursery & Landscape Association (ANLA) applauded Sens. Larry Craig, R-Idaho and Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., for recently announcing comprehensive bipartisan agricultural labor reform bills in the Senate. Sens. Craig, Kennedy and others were cheered on by ANLA members who were in town for ANLA?EUR??,,????'???s biennial Legislative Conference as they and Reps. Chris Cannon, R-Utah and Howard Berman, D-Calif. announced their bills at a news conference on Capitol Hill. The Agricultural Job, Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003 bills (S. 1645 and H.R. 3142) would reform the H-2A guest worker program and allow trained and experienced farm and nursery workers who lack proper work authorization to earn the right to permanent legal status through prospective work and lawful behavior.
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