FARMWORKER PROTECTION

Help Guest Workers and Protect Local Food

You can help guest farmworkers keep their jobs and you can help local farmers keep producing the amazing food you eat. Right now, both are in jeopardy.

Guest Farmworker Visas Change Lives

HERE’S WHY

MEXICO
$0.79
WASHINGTON
$15.03

Minimum wage for guest workers is 19 times the minimum wage in Mexico.

FRESH VEGETABLES
30%
FRESH FRUIT
50%

50% of fresh fruit and 30% of fresh vegetables in the U.S. come from Mexican, Chinese, Eastern European, or Latin American farms.

These foods are 5 times more likely to have pesticide residues or food-borne illnesses.

Washington farmers are required to provide free housing and transportation for guest workers.

30K Guest Workers

1/3 of Washington’s 100,000 seasonal farmworkers are guest workers.

Guest workers earn more in 4 months in Washington than they would in 5 years in Mexico.

80% of those earning are sent home to their families.