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Governor Youngkin’s Veto Denies Minimum Wage Protections for Virginia’s Farmworkers
HB157 would have corrected a vestige of the Jim Crow Era and protected some of our most vulnerable workers RICHMOND, VA – Today, during National… Read More
LAJC’s priorities at the end of the 2024 General Assembly Session
That’s a wrap! The 2024 Regular General Assembly Session officially ended on Friday, March 9. There were 3,594 bills introduced this session; 2,280 of those bills… Read More
End the Farmworker Exemption
Tell Governor Youngkin to Sign HB1625 and Include Farmworkers in Minimum Wage Protections! Fill out the… Read More
Organizing School at LAJC
Last week, we joined with other members of the Richmond Transparency and Accountability Project (RTAP) to host their first “Organizing School,” a place for community… Read More
LAJC Priority Bills Update
We have reached the halfway point for the 2024 General Assembly Session. For the past month, LAJC and our community partners have been actively doing… Read More
The General Assembly Begins!
Today marks the start of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly Session, and we are excited for the chance to once again advocate alongside community partners,… Read More
Tomato Camp
Tomato Camp A migrant farmworker camp on the Eastern Shore of Virginia He says the stains on his hands are from the combination of… Read More
Freeing more than a billion dollars of unemployment payments
When the pandemic caused mass layoffs in 2020, hundreds of thousands of Virginians found themselves out of work and struggling to make ends meet. They… Read More
Challenging employer abuses
In 2019, our team helped 17 workers—victims of labor trafficking, violations of overtime laws, and breaches of their H-2B migrant visa contracts—file a lawsuit against… Read More
Paid for their work
We represented a group of unhoused men who were recruited to work at a motel for up to 40 hours (and sometimes more) per week without… Read More
