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September 4, 2020 - Immigrants Detained at Buffalo Federal Detention Center Sue Federal Contractor Over $1-Per-Day Work Program

May 12, 2020 - First-ever New York Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act Lawsuit Launched in Rochester Over Unpaid Overtime, Minimum Wage Violations

April 23, 2020 - Utica Dairy Company Must Pay Farmworker $30,000 for Labor, Housing Abuses

April 15, 2020 - Disabled Orange County Factory Worker Among Group Awarded $175K in Wrongful Termination Suit

April 18, 2019 - Worker Justice Center of New York Files Class Action Against Mount Kisco Diner For Array of Labor Violations, Racial Discrimination and Sexual Harassment (Click here for complaint)

November 12, 2019 - WJCNY Files Class Action Against Café Spice, a Major Prepared Food Supplier, For Array of Labor Violations at New Windsor Plant (disponible aquí en español)

November 9, 2018 - WJCNY Announces Retirement of Longtime Farmworker Advocate, Lewis Papenfuse, Welcomes Lauren Deutsch as New Executive Director

September 17, 2018 - WJCNY Files Class Action on Behalf of Puerto Rican Migrant Farm Laborers Illegally Denied Work by Upstate NY Employer After Hurricane Maria (disponible aquí en español)

August 10, 2018 - WJCNY Files Class Action for Farmworkers Denied Lawful Wages and Safe Housing

June 22, 2018 - Workers' Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against Goodness Gardens Inc. Reaches Settlement

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