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WASHINGTON -- The International Tobacco Growers' Association (ITGA) expressed outrage today at the devastating impact that the latest set of recommend...
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... concludes that 3.6 million jobs in the tobacco-growing sector in five poverty-stricken African co..., Antonio Abrunhosa, CEO of the International Tobacco Growers Association (ITGA), said: "It conf...
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... FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. , 529 U. S. 120, 133, distinguished. Also un... intervening States 5 and six trade associations, 6 correctly argued that we may not address those... Ibid.; see also Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Fla. v. Veneman , 289 F. 3d 89, 9... to "a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal, including criminal investigations conduc...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Key representatives of tobacco farmer organizations from around the world met in ... was represented at this year's International Tobacco Growers Association (ITGA) Annual General ...
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The Department of Labor ("DOL") is not complying with the spirit of the agency's regulations governing the H-2A temporary agricultural guest-worker program. With the increasing use of the program, the DOL must reform its H-2A procedures and regulations to better protect the domestic workforce from adverse effects. Such changes should include: (1) a more localized review of H-2A applications prior to their submission to the regional DOL offices, (2) increased transparency in the application process, and (3) the establishment of an appeal procedure for farmworkers and their advocates. In order to effectuate these changes, organized labor needs to reevaluate its role within the domestic farmworker community. Farmworker unions have the potential to be powerful advocates on behalf of all agr...
... the country to fight in World War II, growers struggled to find hands to harvest their crops. 23... the H-2A program, the grower, growers association, or farm-labor contractor 64 must present an H-2A... IN THE UNITED STATES UNDER INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS 136 (2000). A minority of s..., Labor Shortage Frustrating Farmers: Some Tobacco May Be Left in the Field for Lack of Workers, MESS...
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... Asia Tobacco Forum, hosted by the International Tobacco Growers' Association (ITGA) and Aliansi Ma...
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By Michael Felberbaum
The Associated Press
..., a spokesman for the Renewable Fuels Association. "I know tobacco farms have been hit hard in recen... tobacco grower and president of the International Tobacco Growers Association. In Allen Wooten's cor...
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... VICE PRESIDENT, TOBACCO GROWERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CAROLINA. A. BLAKE BROWN, ... tobacco products into domestic and international markets. Tommy has raised tobacco himself, worked ...
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...-long protest against California lettuce growers. However, similar to Seale and the BPP, Chavez and... founded the National Farm Workers Association, later changed to the United Farm Workers, in 1962..., distributed nationally and internationally. The party leadership viewed its newspaper as an e... after it was revealed that the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Treasury Depart...
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... World Health Organization's (WHO) latest tobacco policy is growing by the day, spearheaded by Asian... to tobacco growing but fail to offer growers any economically viable alternatives. "These guide... says Antonio Abrunhosa, Head of the International Tobacco Growers Association (ITGA). "This defies l...