Immigrants

Trump Is Using the Pandemic to Wage War on Immigrants and Separate Families

Leave a Comment / Immigration Reform, President Trump / By max cyril

When President Donald Trump first began talking about ending “chain migration” in 2017, media outlets pointed out that his own parents-in-law had likely obtained lawful permanent residency through their daughter Melania—a naturalized U.S. citizen. At the same time that Trump was ranting on Twitter, “CHAIN MIGRATION must end now! Some people come in, and they bring their whole …

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Lost wages, serious illness and poor labor standards: The dangers of rebuilding Texas and Florida

Leave a Comment / OSHA, workplace safety / By max cyril

As Texas prepares to rebuild after Hurricane Harvey devastated much of the state, and Florida starts picking up the pieces from the destruction wreaked by Hurricane Irma, emergency workers may face exploitation for the sake of greater profits and speedier project completion. Past abuses after similar natural disasters have left laborers without all of their …

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How Ending DACA Hurts All Low-Wage Workers

Leave a Comment / immigration, Immigration Reform / By max cyril

This morning Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will “wind down,” and in six months, end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a Department of Homeland Security initiative put in place in 2012 that temporarily deferred the deportation of approximately 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. DACA has …

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In Their Own Words: Why Immigrant Worker Protections Must Be Extended

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

A primary goal of the labor movement is to make every job in our country a good job. To do that, we must and we will stand with every worker in the fight for basic rights and dignity on the job. More than 1 million working people are in danger of having their work permits …

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Environmental groups sue EPA for failing to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposure

Leave a Comment / Farm Workers / By max cyril

The delay also prevents the agency from setting an age requirement prohibiting young farmworkers from applying such pesticides. The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration’s decision to postpone the effective date for implementation of the Certification of Pesticide Applicators (CPA) rule could lead to adverse harmful health issues for farmworkers and other people. That revised …

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Civil Rights and Labor: Two Movements, One Goal

Leave a Comment / Civil Rights / By max cyril

“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.” — A. Philip Randolph One of our most celebrated labor leaders, A. Philip Randolph, an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, knew the connection between the labor movement …

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Labor Board Deals Blow to Fired Immigrant Strikers in Wisconsin

Leave a Comment / discrimination, economy, immigration, workplace issues / By max cyril

WISCONSIN—The union campaign at Palermo’s Pizza in Milwaukee.—which offers a test case in integrating labor, immigrant and community-based organizing—was dealt a painful blow last week by the regional National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB told both sides it would not find the company’s mass firing of immigrant strikers to be illegal, would not protect other …

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NLRB Chairman: New Penalties Needed for Union-Busting of Undocumented Workers

Leave a Comment / discrimination, economy, Employment, Equal Opportunity, immigration, Migrant Workers, NLRB, unions / By max cyril

NEW YORK CITY—National Labor Relations Board Chairman Mark Pearce says his agency could pursue new remedies to punish employers who retaliate against undocumented immigrants for organizing. Last year Pearce interpreted a 2002 Supreme Court decision to rule out back pay as a remedy in such cases, limiting the NLRB’s options of financial penalties. Interviewed Friday by Working …

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Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmworker Families

Leave a Comment / discrimination, health care, unions, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues, workplace safety / By max cyril

No matter how good your next meal tastes, it’s likely it made society ill. A new analysis by the Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN) draws a disturbing connection between pesticides in our food system and serious health problems among women and children. The report reviews empirical research linking agricultural chemicals to birth defects, neurological disorders, childhood cancers and reproductive problems. …

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Hershey Strikers Say Solidarity is the Best Cultural Exchange

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Singing the Italian solidarity song “Bella Chao” in a variety of different languages, approximately 30 cultural exchange guest workers rallied last Friday at SEIU’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. for the end of exploitation of guest workers in the United States. “These students came to this country to get a cultural exchange, Hershey didn’t give it …

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