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Blocking Labor Department Wage Rule Condemns Young Americans to Unemployment

Ross Eisenbrey | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Labor Force, Visa, H-2b, Wages, Maryland, Worker, Seafood, Unemployment Numbers, Minimum Wage, Seafood Industry, Maryland Blue Crab, Guest Workers, Youth Unemployment, Business News
Ross Eisenbrey

It is time for Congress to permit a true test of the labor market, a real opportunity for more U.S. workers to hear about and consider taking seafood-processing jobs like crab picking.

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On Hostile Ground, America's Guest workers Seek Justice

Michelle Chen | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, Labor, Immigration, Guest Workers, Immigrant Labor, Guest Worker Programs, Guestworkers, Politics News
Michelle Chen

Politicians seem to want it both ways: keeping immigrants locked into a brutal underground workforce, while using mass deportation and constant abuse to exclude them from society.

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Protecting Guest Workers in the United States

Tiffany Williams | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Visa, Migrant Workers, Immigration, Teachers, Guest Workers, Human Trafficking, Workers Rights, Guest Workers Rights, Guestworkers Rights, Hershey Exploitation, Crime News
Tiffany Williams

Workers' rights advocates, alongside anti-human trafficking advocates, have been urging the U.S. government to thoroughly review visa programs that depend on foreign labor contractors in order to minimize the vulnerability of workers to human trafficking and exploitation.

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Iowa Compact: A Way Forward on Immigration?

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Iowa, Arizona Immigration, Illegal Immigration, Hispanic, Immigration, Hispanics, Utah, Immigration Reform, Conservatives, Illegal Immigrants, Iowa Caucuses, Hispanic Voters, Arizona Immigration Law, Guest Workers, Republican Party, Republicans, Latino Voices News
Alex Nowrasteh

With the intellectual weight of Helen Krieble's ideas, a nationwide, pro-immigration movement with conservatives involvement is gaining strength in the states.

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Elise Foley

Spanish-Language Ads To Target Mandatory E-Verify

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: E-Verify, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, United Farmworkers of America, California Republicans, Immigration, America's Voice, Guest Workers, Farmworkers, Dan Lungren, Service Employees International Union, Elton Gallegly, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Spanish-language ads will target Republican congressmen from California for their support of a federal employment eligibility program ca...

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Dave Jamieson

Key Dem Lawmaker Fights Raise For Crab Pickers

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Hotels, Labor, Video, Low Wages, Workers, Guestworkers, Hotel-Industry, Crabs, Guest Workers, H-2b, Barbara Mikulski, Seafood, Business News

WASHINGTON -- At the end of this month, many of the foreign guest workers employed in low-wage American jobs will be getting a raise, courtesy of a ne...

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Dave Jamieson

Disgruntled Hershey Guest Workers Knew What To Expect, Says Non-Profit CEO

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Whatever their expectations were for their big summer in America, hundreds of young students from Eastern Europe and Asia wound up worki...

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Dave Jamieson

Hershey Controversy Highlights Troubled Visa Program, Widespread Subcontracting

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Hershey, Foreign Students, J-1 Visas, State Department J-1, Visas, Hershey Unions, Guest Workers, Labor Unions, J-1, Hershey Labor Controversy, State Department, Hershey Labor, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A group of experts on labor and international law assembled in Hershey, Pa., on Friday to investigate claims from foreign students that ...

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Weekly Diaspora: The High Cost of Cheap Labor

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration, United Farm Workers, Unemployment Rate, Ice, Immigration Reform, Unemployment, Michigan Messenger, Oil Spill, H2-a Visa, Mother Jones, The Media Consortium, Katrina, New America Media, BP Oil Spill, Guest Workers, Economy, The Washington Independent, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger A new study about the effects of immigration on U.S. employment supports the long-standing argumen...

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Crab Industry Workers Reveal Injustice of 'Legal' Migrant Labor

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Immigration Reform, Labor, Illegal Immigrants, Mexico, Immigration, Maryland, Seafood, Working Conditions, Guest Workers, Politics News
Michelle Chen

While the "illegal" label dehumanizes immigrants, second-class legal status, perhaps even more dangerously, may paper over injustice, as long as the labor market takes inequality for granted.

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Sojourners in the Holy Land: Israeli Society Wrestles With Migrant Labor

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Labor, Human Rights, Workers, Visa, Chinese, Immigration, Immigrants, Israel, Guest Workers, Unions, China, Human Trafficking, World News
Michelle Chen

Israel's history is rooted in the politics of migration and diaspora. But today, a different kind of migrant is precariously staking out the crossroads of the world.

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Modern Day Slavery in America -- Welcome to the World of "Guestworkers"

John Bowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Bowe

As the immigration debate rears its painful, ugly head once more, it is my hope that the facts become known, and that America's abusive guest worker programs aren't seized upon as an optimal solution.

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Illegal People: An Island of Rationality

Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Trade, Migration, Mexico Immigration, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Human Rights, David Bacon, Nafta, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Globalization, Guest Workers, Labor Unions, Politics News
Hector E. Sanchez

The hostility of globalization forces corporate management to compete for the cheapest possible products at the expense of exploited workers.

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The Freedom of Migration Act Challenge

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Immigrants, Border Fence, Immigration Crisis, ICE Raids, Illegal Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Labor Visas, Immigration Debate, Freedom of Migration, Congress, Immigration, Immigration Law, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration and Customs, Ice, Immigration Reform, Visa Lottery, Family Sponsored Immigration, Illegal Aliens, Border Patrol, Immigration Bill, Border Security, Employment Agencies, Guest Workers, Department of Labor, Politics News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

The present recession overshadows our unresolved immigration mess. Whether we want it or not, we have to address this issue again.

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The Bush Administration's Latest Assault on Immigrant Farmworkers

Bruce Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bruce Goldstein

New changes to the guestworker program proposed by the Bush administration would reduce protections and contravene decades of lessons learned about temporary worker programs.

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