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STOP THE SENSENBRENNER-KING BILL, H.R. 4437!!!  CONTACT YOUR SENATOR TODAY!!!
  • IT HAS ALREADY PASSED THE HOUSE, AND IF IMPLEMENTED, THIS LEGISLATION WOULD CRIMINALIZE 11 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS!!!  CONTACT YOUR SENATOR NOW!!! 
  • VISIT OUR IMMIGRATION REFORM PAGE FOR MORE INFO ON HOW YOU CAN STOP THIS LEGISLATION

The Farmworker Association of Florida is a strong multi-ethnic, economically viable organization with a solid 20-year history of leadership development and effective action for social change. The mission of the Association is to empower farmworker and rural poor communities to respond to and gain control over the social, political, economic, workplace, health, and environmental justice issues that affect their lives. FWAF’s long-term vision is a social environment where farmworkers’ contribution, dignity, and worth is acknowledged, appreciated, and respected through economic and social justice.

The Farmworker Association is a non-profit, community-based membership

organization that was established in 1983 in Central Florida to respond to the needs of the farmworker community and to organize farmworkers more effectively in their struggle for better housing, wages, and working conditions. The Association incorporated in 1986 and then expanded statewide in 1992. Currently, the Association has offices in five agricultural communities in Central and South Florida, serving farmworkers and the rural poor in twelve counties.

FWAF membership is comprised of over 6,800 families who work primarily in the vegetable, citrus, mushroom, sod, fern, and foliage industries. Members are:

¨ 94% Latino (predominately Mexican, Guatemalan, and Salvadoran)

¨ 3% Haitian

¨ 3% African-American

¨ 40% Female