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Goal Statement   one sentence that further defines the topic 

• to provide vineyard farmworkers with fair labor conditions and living wages, safe and affordable housing, and oportunities for career development

   

Policy Options / Model Programs   specific policies or program models, grouped by type, that are profiled 

• Increase housing initiatives subsisized at both federal and state levels as well as by individual growers

• Cover farmworkers in the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the Federal Food Quality Protection Act

• Increase Community College programs that provide vineyard management skills for farmworkers^[1]

• Pass a comprehensive immigration reform that would ensure a stable and predictable agricultural workfore

• Provide infrastructure for undocumented farmworkers to confidentially report labor rights violations

• Increase initiative to unionize farmworkers^[2]

Local/State/National Information    additional information on this topic at the local, state, national, global level

• Farm Workers in the Wine Industry - Walla Walla, WA

• Farm Workers in the Wine Industry - Washington State

• Farm Workers in the Wine Industry - National

Glossary of Terms   key words or phrases that the layperson needs to know to understand this issue 

Bibliography    

• Popovich, Natalie. 2009.