Maintain the 60-hour Work Week!
The future of New York State’s agriculture hangs in the balance. Last year, farmers and farmworkers compromised on a 60-hour overtime threshold to maintain employee needs, especially when working with farm animals and perishable crops. With a final decision pending this year, we cannot sustain any reduction to the work week. Farmers and farmworkers are united. Let’s keep it the way it is. We have adapted and adjusted to this new normal, but further disruption will negatively impact farmers and farmworkers and could change the face of NY agriculture forever. Help us maintain the current overtime threshold and save New York’s food supply, farmworker jobs and our rural economy!
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We are focused on sharing with all our NY neighbors the values, contributions and benefits, farmers and the greater agricultural community bring to our state. Our advocacy efforts spring forward from voices on more than 35,000 farms.
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Rising costs of diesel & propane are adding to the extraordinary stresses being felt on NY farms. This is especially difficult for farmers like Jon Patterson who cannot pass these increased costs on.
All the more reason for @GovKathyHochul to #StayAt60. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-19/diesel-s-100-surge-and-scarcity-deny-farmers-their-lifeblood
Farmer Keith Kimball asks the question on the mind of farmers across the state: "Do we continue to farm in New York or do we move somewhere where the regulations are more favorable, and do what we love to do and make a living doing it?" #StayAt60 https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/farmers-express-concern-as-new-york-considers-expanding-overtime-for-workers
WATCH: Dairy farmer Quade Kirk spoke with @JamieDeLineNews about how lowering the farm labor OT threshold would negatively impact his employees and his farm. #StayAt60 https://www.news10.com/news/lawmakers-urge-rejection-of-farm-wage-recommendation/