Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is leading a coalition of 17 states in a lawsuit against a Biden Administration rule that allows temporary farm workers in the country on H-2A Visas to Unionize. Under Federal law, American farm workers are prohibited from collective bargaining. The Attorney General of the states says the rule creates a situation where hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign-migrant farmworkers would have the right to unionize while millions of American farmworkers do not. They say the Department of Labor’s new rule is a rewrite of the National Labor Relations Act. Only Congress has the authority to make changes to that. Kobach says the Biden Administration is putting America last, again, and giving political benefits to foreign workers while American workers struggle in a horrible economy and provides rights to foreigners that American farmworkers do not have under Federal law.
Kobach says he stands behind American workers. Kansas joins Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia in the lawsuit.
