The Mendocino Voice ·
Judge called federal farmworker wage cut unlawful. Mendocino vineyards are still working under it.
Mendocino County growers have federal approval to fill 130 wine-grape jobs this season with farmworkers brought in from abroad on temporary visas. All but two of those jobs pay $16.90 an hour. Last season, the federal floor for that work was $19.97.