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Like most growers, Van de Wetering Greenhouses would have workers – all of them females – focusing on sticking one tray at a time.
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April 26, 2012
Efficiencies can be gained by having your staff work smarter – not harder.
April 18, 2012
House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement holds hearing on E-Verify program.
March 9, 2012
Efficiencies can be gained by having employees work smarter – not harder. 
September 27, 2011
The postponement is good news for the green industry. But if wages ultimately do increase for workers with H-2B visas, a number of nurseries and landscapers will be facing dramatically increased labor costs.
August 30, 2011
OFA and ANLA will do it for you in a series of September briefings for growers in and around Connecticut, Michigan and New Jersey.
August 9, 2011
Van Wingerden International's Bert Lemkes speaks out on what a mandatory verification system would do to ag.
July 21, 2011
Bert Lemkes, co-owner of Top 100 Grower Van Wingerden International, joined other growers and business owners earlier this month in a march on Capitol Hill to let Congress know the impact of mandatory E-Verify on agriculture.
June 28, 2011
SAF and others are urging growers to descend on Washington to urge change to the current E-Verify bill on the House floor.
June 14, 2011
Grower pressures are mounting as the government cracks down on businesses employing illegal immigrants.
June 10, 2011
Rep. Lamar Smith announced last week he plans to introduce legislation this week to make the use of E-Verify, the country's online legal-employment status verification system, mandatory.
June 7, 2011
Is the Supreme Court's ruling that upheld an Arizona law-imposing sanctions against business that hire illegal immigrants a good thing or a bad thing? Growers are torn on the matter, and a few of them weighed in over the last week with us.
May 28, 2011
State can now revoke the licenses of businesses that hire illegal immigrants; E-Verify upheld.
May 23, 2011
ANLA has taken action in response to the U.S. Department of Labor's recently proposed changes to the H-2B program.
April 29, 2011
In a May 24 webinar, ANLA's Craig Regelbrugge will give a brief update on the federal legislative picture and prospects for meaningful immigration reform.
April 29, 2011
Hines Nurseries has signed a letter of intent to sell assets from nurseries in Arizona and Texas to the largest greenhouse operation in the United States.