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- Howard Rosenberg
provides a wide range of information and technical advice in response to
inquiries from California as well as far-flung legislative and public
agency staff, growers and workers, association representatives, farm service
providers, students, and journalists. Among topics addressed recently
are on-farm housing for key workers, profit-sharing plans, aggregate needs
for and supply of agricultural labor, wage and hour standards, employee handbooks,
the H-2A work visa program, regulation of labor organizing and collective
bargaining, foreman training, and conflict resolution.
- Howard keeps
under continuous development the Agricultural Personnel Management
Program website, a rich source of educational material, legal and
government references, research findings, practical advice, and structured
links to other resources on labor management in production agriculture,
with emphasis on the industry in California.
- Howard Rosenberg is working with the AgSafe
Coalition, the Center for Agricultural Business at CSU Fresno, Western Growers
Association, the Farm Labor Contractor Education Institute, and Cal/OSHA
to incorporate instruction on heat stress in seminars for licensed labor
contractors and other agricultural managers. Part of this project
is to develop Spanish-language reference material that managers and foremen
will use in explaining to field workers the science and prevention of
heat stress.
- With support
from the USDA and Farm Foundation, Howard Rosenberg works with a team
of western states colleagues building education in human resource management
into their extension programs. He is principal author of the recently
completed Ag Help Wanted: Guidelines
for Managing Agricultural Labor, a book with companion website that
are already in use by practicing managers, university students, and extension
educators across the country.
- Under a grant
from the University of California Institute
for Labor and Employment, Jeff Romm
is investigating with Christy Getz (an Extension specialist in the Department
of Environmental Science, Policy and Management) the formation of labor-environment
coalitions in North Coast counties.
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