Archive for the ‘labor’ Category
Legalizing Farm Workers: A Shared Necessity
Posted: December 3, 2009 at 11:31 am By Rachel LaBruyerePart 6 in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players”, from MaribelHastings.com. How often do you think about the working conditions of the people who pick the fruit and vegetables you eat? And how many acres of farmland have gone unharvested for lack of workers, thanks to fear of increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement? This year, [...]
Labor Pains: How Our Broken Immigration System Hurts All Workers
Posted: October 30, 2009 at 12:14 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy TYLER MORA. Originally posted at Immigration Impact. While most employers are law-abiding, some unscrupulous employers have a secret weapon for keeping down wages and working conditions—our broken immigration system. Bad apple employers hire undocumented immigrants, subject them to unsafe working conditions, pay them less than the market wage, or don’t pay them at all. [...]
Labor groups make the case for immigration reform
Posted: October 27, 2009 at 4:59 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Rich Stolz, of the Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign. A report released today by the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work and the National Employment Law Project (NELP) finds that the federal government’s immigration enforcement in recent years – including a heavy reliance on raids and often inadequately trained enforcement agents – has severely undermined [...]
Reform Immigration… FOR Workers
Posted: September 9, 2009 at 1:20 pm By adminOriginally posted at ImmPolitic blog: Labor Day has come and gone, marking the unofficial end of summer and the beginning of the fall Congressional session. For most of us, Labor Day caps a three-day weekend. For many of the workers on the bottom rungs of our economic system, Labor Day was just another day to [...]
Labor Day Reflection: America Should Be The Land of Opportunity, Not Worker Exploitation
Posted: September 4, 2009 at 2:59 pm By Americas VoiceOriginally posted at America’s Voice. The Center for Urban Economic Development, National Employment Law Project, and UCLA Institutute for Research on Labor and Employment, released a study titled “Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers” that explored the treatment of approximately 4,500 workers in three of America’s biggest cities – New York, LA, and Chicago. It cites a [...]
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