CDM Continues to Defend H-2B Workers’ Rights
Since mid-September, US Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) has pushed the US Department of Labor to delay the implementation of a new prevailing wage rate rule, which would raise the hourly wages of H-2B guestworkers. Under Mikulski’s pressure and an industry lawsuit, the DOL delayed the implementation of the new regulations until November 30, 2011. The…