Immigrant Workers

Why the Proposed Startup Act 2.0 Is Embarrassing

Gene Marks | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Startup Act 2.0, Startup Act, Small Business America, Startups, Immigrants, Immigration, Small Business, Immigrant Workers, Small Business News
Gene Marks

It will clearly help this country over the long term by keeping those people who our own universities educated here, where many of these students want to be, rather than forcing them to leave. It seems so fundamentally right that it's unbelievable these rules weren't changed decades ago.

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Wage Theft, Sexual Harassment and Workplace Violence; The Troubling Reality of Many Latina and Immigrant Workers

Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Working Women, Latinas, Lclaa, Violence Against Women, Immigrant Workers, Sexual Harrassment, Workplace Violence, Latino Voices News
Hector E. Sanchez

We stand with Latinas across the nation to ensure that their labor, human and civil rights are fully respected because an injury to one is an injury to all.

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The Myth of the Illegal Invasion

Jeanne Marie Laskas | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Migrant Workers, Illegal Immigration, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Immigrant Workers, Migrant Workers u.s., Illegal Immigrants, Latino Voices News
Jeanne Marie Laskas

We talk about increasing the number of border security guards and we hear about more states enacting even tighter laws designed to stop the invasion of illegal immigration from Mexico. So much shouting over so many years seems to have created a mythology too complete for even facts to alter.

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Reflections on Labor Day

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Immigrants, Labor, Workers, Labor Day, Wealth Gap, Illegal Immigrants, Income Gap, Minimum Wage, Sexism, Immigrant Workers, Women's Work, Los Angeles News
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

The stratification of the job market is even more acute today than it was in my youth. Adult immigrants are trying to raise families on the kind of jobs I did as a way of contributing to my college expenses.

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Weekly Diaspora: 100 Years After Triangle Fire, Immigrant Workers Still Fighting for Labor Rights

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.31.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Last week marked the centennial of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, in which 146 most...

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Israel Celebrates an Oscar and Prepares to Deport Children

Mya Guarnieri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Migrant Workers, Oscars, Immigrant Workers, Israel, World News, Strangers No More, Foreign Workers, World News
Mya Guarnieri

It's big news here in Israel that Strangers No More -- a documentary film that focuses on a South Tel Aviv school attended by zarim, Hebrew for foreig...

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State of an Immigrant Union

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jorge-Mario Cabrera

The president has an opportunity, make that a responsibility, to tell the American people that reforming our nation's broken immigration system is not an issue that concerns only those on the right or the left, but one that concerns us all.

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No One Is Illegal: Why YES! Magazine Is Taking the I-Word Pledge

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nafta, The I-Word, Illegal Immigrants, Jobs, Climate Change, Immigration, Immigrants, YES! Magazine, Immigrant Workers, Unions, Politics News
Sarah van Gelder

YES! Magazine is joining ColorLines, The Nation, and others in pledging not to use the term "illegals" to refer to people. Actually, this isn't a chan...

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Standing Up for Workers' Rights

Marielena Hincapié | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marielena Hincapié

"Exploitation anywhere is a threat to organized labor everywhere." Those were the words of Rev. Jesse Jackson at the introduction of the Protect Our W...

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Immigration Debate: Nearly Half Of U.S. Immigrants Work In White-Collar Jobs: STUDY

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the Senate expected to take up broad immigration reform this year, the immigration debate has lately focused on "amnesty" for foreign-born worker...

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The Zero-Sum Argument that Pits African Americans Against Undocumented Workers is a False Premise

Sam Fulwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Fulwood

At the heart of this specious challenge to fairness for all U.S. workers is the idea that blacks resent undocumented Latino immigrants for taking away jobs that would rightfully belong to them.

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The Invisible Face of Immigration

Irasema Garza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Women, Labor, Undocumented Immigrants, Women's Issues, Sexual-Violence, Illegal Immigrants, Women and Politics, Immigrant Workers, Sexual Assault, Female-Immigrants, Female Migrants, Women Immigrants, Politics News
Irasema Garza

Women immigrants are facing impossible choices daily: put up with abuse, or sacrifice their only life line to economic security for themselves and their families.

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Amnesty NOW: How and Why

Jane Guskin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Immigrants, Immigration, Protest, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration and Nationality Act, Amnesty, Immigrant Workers, Agjobs, Politics News
Jane Guskin

Any delays in pushing through legalization will hurt its chances. We need to mobilize behind a united demand, and make our voices heard every single day until we get what is needed.

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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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