Committee On

Oversight & Government Reform

The H-2B Guestworker Program and Improving the Department of Labor’s Enforcement of the Rights of Guestworkers

April 23, 2009

Witnesses

Mr. Aby Karickathara Raju (testimony)
Former H-2B Guestworker and Member
Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity

Mr. Miguel Angel Jovel Lopez (testimony)
Former H-2B Guestworker and Member
Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity

Mr. Daniel Castellanos-Contreras (testimony)
Former H-2B Guestworker and Founding Member
Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity

Mr. Saket Soni (testimony)
Executive Director
New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice

Ms. Mary Bauer (testimony)
Director, Immigrant Justice Project
Southern Poverty Law Center

Ms. Catherine Ruckelshaus (testimony)
Legal Co-Director
National Employment Law Project

Professor Patrick A. McLaughlin, Ph.D. (testimony)
Mercatus Center at George Mason University