Farmworkers’ Unions Win a Big One (1975), The Nixon Gang Gets Down to Business (1970), A Deportation that Backfired (1950), Popular Justice Is No Crime (2020), Whitewashing the CIA Isn’t Easy (1975)
A conversation with the former head of the National Labor Relations Board fired President Donald Trump.
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
In the first 100 days of his second term, Trump has hurt working people and the economy over 100 ways.
Witnesses captured videos of officers and agents, some in uniform and others plain-clothed, stationed in front of a store’s entrance, with a parked Border Patrol truck plainly visible. The agents were visible and intimidating – and it worked.
If it succeeds, California’s legal protections for farmworkers could be rolled back to conditions that prevailed before César Chavez’s campaigns for farm unionization in the 1960s.
In the face of lax enforcement by Biden’s Labor Department, labor organizations have stepped up to protect farmworkers.
Under the new visa pilot program, the administration is prioritizing growers’ profits over farmworkers’ rights.
Labor reporters are increasingly focusing on how extreme heat kills workers — and what should be done about it. They could focus on industry opposition to creating federal heat regulations, whether from agricultural employers or warehouse companies.
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