Posts Tagged ‘labor rights’
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 [...]
Made in L.A.: The Human Side of Immigration
Posted: August 11, 2009 at 8:13 am By Americas VoiceOriginally posted at America’s Voice: Made in LA is back! PBS will air an encore broadcast of the Emmy award-winning film that documents the lives of three Latina immigrants; Lupe Hernandez, Maria Peneda, and Maura Colorado all work in the garment industry and seek to win basic labor protections from a well-known clothing retailer, a [...]
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