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Union Teachers Are Donating Their Stimulus Checks to the Undocumented

Leave a Comment / Undocumented Employees / By max cyril

Olivia Udovic and her husband, Edgar Sánchez—both teachers in Oakland—are among millions of Americans receiving federal stimulus checks. The money didn’t stay in their bank account for long, however; the pair is part of a nationwide movement of teachers paying their checks forward to undocumented families in their schools. Udovic teaches kindergarten at Manzanita SEED …

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Trump administration attacks unions for fast-growing occupation, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Undocumented Employees / By max cyril

A new part of the Trump administration’s ongoing quest to weaken worker power goes into effect this Friday, in the form of a new regulation banning automatic union dues deduction for home health workers paid directly by Medicaid. That means that the workers, many of whom have only recently become union members—and have gotten significant raises as …

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After letter from former undocumented employees, Trump feigns ignorance

Leave a Comment / Undocumented Employees / By max cyril

Amid the ongoing immigration crisis in the U.S., President Donald Trump claimed this week that he “didn’t know” that his own properties had hired numerous undocumented migrants as long-time employees. Asked specifically about undocumented employees at Trump’s numerous golf clubs, Trump pleaded ignorance to The New York Times on Friday. “I don’t know because I don’t run …

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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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A Discussion on Granting Back Pay to Undocumented Workers under the NLRA and the IRCA

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

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Cornell ILR Alumni Reception on September 20, 2012, I asked NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce, the keynote speaker, about the nearly six-year deliberation and unusual concurrence in Mezonos Maven Bakery, where the NLRB ultimately reversed an Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) 2006 decision granting back pay to undocumented workers under the NLRA. …

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New Mexico Lawmaker Proposes State Guest Worker Program For Undocumented Immigrants

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

While neighboring Arizona keeps its notorious anti-immigrant law on the books, New Mexico may be taking another path. State Sen. Steve Fischmann (D) is proposing a guest worker plan to let undocumented immigrants work legally in the state. If immigrants can prove they have lived in New Mexico for the past year and pass a background …

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Will Public Workers and Immigrants March Together on May Day?

Leave a Comment / Public Workers, unions / By max cyril

One sign carried in almost every May Day march of the last few years says it all: “We are Workers, not Criminals!” Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they’d just come from work in a factory, cleaning an office building, or picking grapes. The sign …

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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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undocumented workers

Union Teachers Are Donating Their Stimulus Checks to the Undocumented

Trump administration attacks unions for fast-growing occupation, this week in the war on workers

After letter from former undocumented employees, Trump feigns ignorance

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

A Discussion on Granting Back Pay to Undocumented Workers under the NLRA and the IRCA

New Mexico Lawmaker Proposes State Guest Worker Program For Undocumented Immigrants

Will Public Workers and Immigrants March Together on May Day?

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

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