The legislation would give growers, laborers what 'they most need and want,' union leader says.
The United Farm Workers and West Coast agricultural groups agree on something.
Leaders of the nation's largest ag workers' union are backing a revived bill in Congress that would reform the H-2A farm guestworker program, providing a path to legal status for undocumented workers and their immediate families.
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero and UFW Foundation Executive Director Diana Tellefson Torres heralded the reintroduction of the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act coauthored by U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash.