Alba Services Inc. cut insurance costs by telling workers to lie to doctors about job injuries, the attorney general’s probe concluded — and offered cash rewards to turn in workers who did try to file claims.
Morale has plummeted as staff charged with protecting U.S. workers feel their core mission is being undermined.
People confuse essential workers with workers who can be exploited,” Bibiana Gonzalez, a child care provider noted. “They want to toss these workers in the street just for being immigrants,” said Voces de la Frontera organizer Pablo Rodriguez.
A better world’s in birth
Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigrant workforce.
For immigrants on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, documentation does not guarantee access to health care. Rural America is changing rapidly, and immigrants are central to that transformation.
How Labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids.
Huerta is home now. But the fact that ICE would publicly detain someone with his visibility and institutional support simply for protesting should serve as the ultimate warning for anyone who believes in worker power.
Is the purpose of organizing to increase union membership, or is it to rebuild a working-class movement that can effectively make life better for the vast majority of working people?
The battle at the Hyatt is a proxy over whose interests will prevail in the new Buffalo: wealthy developers who receive lush subsidies or workers fighting for good union jobs in industries like leisure and hospitality that prop up the city’s revival.
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