Labor Shortage Dear Good Fruit Grower: I am writing in response to Kent Lundgren’s “Utilize American Labor” letter to the editor in the May 1, 2008, Good Fruit Grower. Mr. Lundgren suggests that growers don’t need foreign workers, that all they need to do is seek out the estimated 14 million unemployed domestic workers. What Mr. Lundgren fails to recognize is that several Washington ­agricultural employers have attempted to do just that. The latest data I have shows that in 2007 Washington State Employment Security Department and the U.S. Department of Labor acted on twenty-six Washington State H-2A applications seeking […]