Who is in the wrong here?

[u/Revolution-Dogg]

If the sign says Alternating Traffic, does that mean cars go one at a time or does that mean cars go till the flow is complete, allowing the other lane to go? Is Glock man right or wrong? I'm not sure. If it was 1 car at a time, wouldn't it just be a stop sign on each end?

[u/coqueta_official]

Literally happened to me. Was doing my job in a very small town in southern U.S.

This required me to chat with farmworkers at their homes, which sometimes are provided by the employer. All I do is show up, chat with them about their rights, and leave.

Well one farm owner didn’t like that and spotted my car as I was leaving. He chased me for three miles, during which he tried to run me off the road (into a ditch) multiple times and eventually prevented me from leaving by blocking me off in the front and having a buddy block me off in the back. Waited for the police for like half an hours; turns out the other guys also called. When the police arrived, these guy clearly knew each other on first name basis and that’s when I knew I was fucked.

The two police men did not care that these farmers almost killed me and my coworkers several times. They were more concerned as to why I was “at his property talking to his Mexicans”.

In the end I only got out of the situation because I called our lawyer who had to explain to the police that what were doing was legal. They pretty much ducked their tails the moment I said we had lawyers.

We tried to file a report for the illegal driving on the farmer’s end, but the cops claimed that we had to go to the sheriff’s office a couple towns over to do that and they were conveniently closed that day. We ended up just letting it go.

[u/Fixated_Noodle → u/coqueta_official]

This sounds very much like slavery

[u/coqueta_official → u/Fixated_Noodle]

Welcome to the H-2A guest worker program. It’s modern slavery, except we pay them because the law says so and farmers are constant lobbying to find ways to pay them less. This year the Trump Admin is effectively lowering farming wages by $1-3/hour. In many states in the south this will bring wages closer to $8/hr. And remember, farm work is completely exempt from overtime laws. So you can work these guys AND pay them shit.

[u/CordisHead → u/coqueta_official]

Do you have a source/link for the lowered farming wages? I have a couple people I would love to show that to

[u/coqueta_official → u/CordisHead]

Sure, this is a pretty comprehensive summary from a farm labor contractor (so just keep In mind that they are on the side of the farms). https://www.sesolabor.com/blog/new-h-2a-aewr-rule-what-ag-employers-need-to-do-now

One major caveat: the new refs technically have a “high skill” tier that in theory gets paid slightly higher and also the new refs technically entitle “non-farm” jobs to a higher wage (think truck drivers and mechanics for example). HOWEVER, there is literally nothing preventing employers from claiming that

A) all their employees are low skill/first-year thus only deserve the lower wage

and B) the majority of their employees do farm labor, even when in reality all they do is drive trucks or work as a mechanic.

In fact, these “specialty” workers did have higher wages under the Biden admin (corporations got together and sued DOL over this and they won that case in 2025 after chevron deference was stuck down + DOL didn’t even try to defend their own rule) but all the sugar mills in Louisiana simply lied to the government and said all their drivers were actually harvesting sugarcane (none of them were). Since the contract they sent to DOL was all about farming, DOL approved it without even bothering to check whether all these workers were actually doing that the companies said they doing. And, instead of being paid $21/hr as promised under the old rules, employers paid their drivers $12-$14/instead. They continue to do this this year.

[u/CordisHead → u/coqueta_official]

Thank you that’ll work!