Dan Fazio

WAFLA announced Monday the hiring of a new CEO Enrique ‘Rick’ Gastelum. Since 2013, Gastelum, served as the Chief Financial Officer for the Washington Farm Bureau where he managed the business operations and finances of the organization. While there, h ...

The vaccine mandate for H-2A foreign guest workers went into effect January 22nd but will it make getting workers more difficult this year? Dan Fazio, director of the Washington Farm Labor Association, says the system they put into place last year should keep everything running smoothly ...

Recently, Dan Fazio Executive Director of the Washington Farm Labor Association, better known as WAFLA, wrote an Op-Ed piece that ran in the Seattle Times stating that roughly 95% of foreign farmworkers were vaccinated this year and that no one had died from COVID-19 ...

Thanks to a variety of efforts, the H-2A farmworker community has reported a high rate of COVID-19 vaccinations. Dan Fazio, CEO of WAFLA, the Washington Farm Labor Association, said Medical Teams International has been working on issuing vaccinations along with local health jurisdictions and farmworker clinics ...

Saying “better late than never”, the Washington Farm Bureau and the Washington Farm Labor Association are breathing a sigh of relief, after Governor Jay Inslee, the State Department of Labor and the Health Department revised emergency housing rules for farmworkers. WAFLA Exe ...

The Washington State Dairy Federation will hold a virtual presentation Wednesday focused on a variety of labor topics and how they will impact those in the industry. Scott Dilley, Communications Director for the Dairy Federation, said WAFLA Director Dan Fazio and Human Resources Manager Pam Peters will address employment-related questions ...

WAFLA will hold a pair of labor and H2A discussions over the next two days.  The first will take place Tuesday at the Frenchman Hills Barn in Royal City, from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.  The second will take place Wednesday from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m...

A former WAFLA employee his filed a suit against the organization as well as the executive director.  Dawn Dobbins, who held a variety of positions for Lacey-based WAFLA filed the suit in June in Thurston County Superior Court.  According to the Yakima Herald, the suit claims Dan Fazio make several sexual remarks and gestures towards her an other women.  The sui...

The Washington Farm Labor Association says the bus crash in Central California that killed five earlier this week highlights the importance of having a legal worker program.  Dan Fazio with WAFLA told the Washington Ag Network as the U.S. m...