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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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Workers Compensation: What to Know

Leave a Comment / Compensation / By max cyril

If you are injured or fall sick as a result of a workplace accident or unsafe conditions, you may be entitled to compensation. Every state has its own laws and regulations surrounding workers’ compensation, but all 50 states have a program in place to protect injured or sick workers. Businesses purchase workers’ compensation insurance, and …

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Hundreds of Fruit Packing Workers Are On Strike

Essential workers speak out on the unsafe conditions they face

Leave a Comment / Essential Worker, Workplace Conditions / By max cyril

For all the talk about how they’re heroes, too many essential workers still aren’t feeling valued in the ways that matter: protections for their health and safety. A new study of essential workers in western Massachusetts—a region with two cities among the highest COVID-19 death rates in the country—finds that 51% said they don’t feel safe …

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No free pass to discriminate against immigrant workers: Salas v. Sierra Chemical Co.

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Low-wage workers—regardless of immigration status—shoulder more than their fair share of workplace violations, including unpaid wages, unsafe working conditions, and discrimination and harassment. Immigrant low-wage workers are particularly vulnerable—working under constant fear that if they exercise basic workplace rights, they will suffer retaliation that could result in the separation of their families; loss of homes …

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