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Mexican Grocery Chain Workers Sue for Unpaid Wages in Silicon Valley

Leave a Comment / immigration, race discrimination, wages / By max cyril

SAN FRANCISCO—More than 50 former workers at a now-defunct supermarket chain in Santa Clara County (aka Silicon Valley and San Jose) are suing their former employer for unpaid wages. The two-store chain went bankrupt after being open less than three years and receiving half a million dollars in assistance from the city’s economic development department. …

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‘Deeper Into the Shadows’: The Aftermath of ICE’s Audits and Enforcement Strategy

Leave a Comment / discrimination, immigration, Migrant Workers, SEIU, unemployment / By max cyril

A new report issued by the Immigration Policy Center, “Deeper into the Shadows: The Unintended Consequence of Immigration Worksite Enforcement,” examines what happens to workers after an I-9 audit, wherein the federal governmet inspects employment eligibility forms employers keep on file for each worker. The results aren’t pretty. Aftermath of an audit In Minneapolis, 1,200 …

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Social Forum Focuses on Workers’ Issues

Leave a Comment / immigration, unions / By max cyril

Workers’ issues were the focus of five days of marches, rallies and workshops at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, which ended over the weekend. Grassroots activists and progressives from across the country came together to build new alliances, create new strategies and put new energy into the movement to turn around the American economy. …

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Immigrants are US

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

I’d like to raise a few topics that I don’t think got discussed nearly enough. First, the economy has changed quite a bit over the decades. Here is a question: What was the year that for the first time service workers and white collar workers outnumbered blue collar workers? 2001? 1990? OK, we’ll go out …

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Report: Immigration Reform Would Boost Economy

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

A new report shows that comprehensive immigration reform would help American workers and the U.S. economy. Reform that offers a path to citizenship for currently unauthorized workers and enforces workers’ rights would raise the “wage floor” for the entire U.S. economy and increase the total gross domestic product (GDP) by at least $1.5 trillion over …

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American Apparel Stripped of 1,800 Workers – to What Effect?

Leave a Comment / immigration, sexual harassment / By max cyril

The firing of 1,800 apparently undocumented workers at American Apparel’s Los Angeles garment factory, forced by a federal investigation, is an example of the Obama administration’s new approach to workplace enforcement, which avoids the Bush administration’s militarized raids. Unlike other companies targeted for immigration enforcement, American Apparel’s factory boasts positive working conditions and relatively high …

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Mexican Grocery Chain Workers Sue for Unpaid Wages in Silicon Valley

‘Deeper Into the Shadows’: The Aftermath of ICE’s Audits and Enforcement Strategy

Immigrants are US

Report: Immigration Reform Would Boost Economy

American Apparel Stripped of 1,800 Workers – to What Effect?

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