Immigrant Workers

The Climate Crisis Is Coming for Undocumented Farmworkers First

Leave a Comment / Climate Change / By max cyril

Facing deadly heat waves and few protections, undocumented agricultural workers are being pushed to their limit. In July 2020, Claudia Durán felt compelled to complete her shift harvesting blueberries in the fields of Allegan County, Mich., before driving to the local hospital’s emergency room to be treated for dehydration, where she arrived dizzy, with an acute …

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For Farmworkers, the Fight for the 8-Hour Day Isn’t Over

Leave a Comment / Farm Workers, immigration, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Federal labor laws exclude farmworkers from overtime pay and other protections. After years of advocacy by farm labor groups, lawmakers in Oregon, Washington and Colorado are working to change that. Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz grew up the son of two farmworkers, and he remembers his family’s struggles vividly. “We almost faced eviction five times because …

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Can a Driver Uprising Make Food Apps Deliver?

Leave a Comment / low-wage jobs, Uncategorized, Workplace Conditions / By max cyril

Jonán Mancilla is standing on a Manhattan street corner under the awning of a shuttered salon, handing out stickers to his fellow food delivery drivers. The sticker shows a masked bicyclist in silhouette—fist in the air, food cooler strapped to his back. It bears a Spanglish phrase the largely indigenous workers from Mexico and Guatemala …

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The Impact of Job Loss in Immigrant Communities During COVID-19

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, unemployment / By max cyril

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a stark demonstration of the racist and xenophobic attitudes maintained at an institutional level. Job loss and rates of infection have disproportionately affected immigrant groups in the U.S. and other nations around the world. With these marginalized groups often being locked out of the aid resources meant to mitigate the …

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Nearly half of Black immigrant domestic workers lost their jobs during COVID-19, and that’s not all

Leave a Comment / Domestic Workers / By max cyril

Domestic workers are overwhelmingly marginalized workers, and as we know, the coronavirus pandemic has been the hardest on already marginalized people. A new survey of 800 Black immigrant domestic workers in three areas shows just how bad it is for these workers who take care of children, elderly people, and people with disabilities, or who clean homes. The workers’ stress and …

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The H-1B Termination “Stinger” in the Era of COVID-19: What Employers Need to Know

Leave a Comment / furloughs, layoffs / By max cyril

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its global economic repercussions have forced many employers to make difficult choices regarding their workforces. Businesses that employ workers who are not U.S. citizens must reckon with additional complications, as their decisions will affect both the employees’ livelihoods and their ability to remain in the United States. Given these challenges, …

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Immigrant women workers on the front lines of meatpacking COVID-19 outbreaks speak out

Leave a Comment / Working Women, workplace safety / By max cyril

Coverage of COVID-19 outbreaks in North Carolina poultry processing plants began with an online tip, but soon multiple workers came forward—risking their livelihoods—to talk about the unsafe working conditions they faced inside the plants. All of them were women. One of those women is Luz. The 38-year-old immigrant from Mexico has spent the last four years working …

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The Pentagon Wants to Sacrifice Mexican and Indian Workers for U.S. Arms Industry Profits

Leave a Comment / Workers / By max cyril

On March 20, the Pentagon issued a guideline stating that U.S manufacturers of missiles, warships and fighter jets should stay open during the Covid-19 crisis. The rationale is that the “defense industrial base” constitutes “essential” critical infrastructure for the United States. Yet we have every reason to believe that U.S. militarism, propped up by the arms industry, …

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‘This is my home’: Undocumented students, educators await a DACA decision

Leave a Comment / Immigration Reform / By max cyril

Hundreds of thousands of undocumented students across the country live with the fear that they could face deportation and an end to their plans for higher education. The Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has provided work authorization and deportation protections for undocumented people who were illegally brought to the United States as …

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After Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Immigrant Workers Are Organizing

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

On August 7 the poultry towns of central Mississippi suffered the largest workplace raid in the U.S. since 2006. Some 680 chicken-processing workers from seven factories were detained and incarcerated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Ten percent of the population in Morton, Mississippi, was either incarcerated or fired. Parents were detained the same day …

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