News you can use

Baucus to Solis: Put your boots on a Montana farm

Montana's senior U. S. senator sent an invitation to the U. S. Department of Labor to look at a hot topic: regulating child labor on agricultural operations.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., invited Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis to come visit farms and ranches and see what it is like when children and youths work on those operations.

"I hope Secretary Solis will take me up on my offer, put her boots on the ground in Montana and better understand why we believe so strongly that Montana families — not feds — should be divvying up farm chores, " Baucus said in a press release Monday.

The issue o...

 

Reader Comments(0)

 
 
Rendered 03/24/2024 16:51