YourVoice.Now Summary
Creates a $50 million USDA fund to pay farm, meatpacking, and grocery workers through their unions during disasters.
The details
When a natural disaster or other crisis hits, the farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery store employees who keep the food supply running are often among the hardest hit — and the least supported. This bill would create a $50 million USDA grant program to fund stabilization payments for those workers through their labor unions or membership organizations during disasters, helping them stay on their feet while keeping the country fed.
Congressional Summary
Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act of 2026 This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to establish a grant program to provide farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers stabilization payments in the case of a natural disaster or other disaster. Specifically, AMS must provide funding to membership organizations or labor unions representing farmworkers, meat processing workers, and grocery workers for the payments.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-03-16
- Date Added
- 2026-04-03
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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