H-2A guest worker program

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

Farmworker advocacy groups are urging the state to investigate questionable responses by farmers to a survey about how much they pay their workers. In a…

Steve Sakuma, one of the owners of Sakuma Brothers Farms, a Skagit Valley berry farm that’s been in the spotlight for a labor dispute, calls President…

People in Seattle are familiar with the H-1B visa program that brings high-tech employees from abroad, but another, more obscure foreign worker program…

Sakuma Brothers Farms, one of Washington state's biggest berry farms, says it has withdrawn its application for foreign guest workers under the Department…