immigrant workers
Shady contractors jailed in Bay area and on Long Island
June 20, 2019Wage theft and outright enslavement of immigrant workers were uncovered by the DOL at the Silvery Towers construction site in San Jose, Calif.
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Retail union aiding Ohio union members grabbed by ICE
June 25, 2018These raids are used to scare non immigrant workers away from exercising their rights under U.S. labor law.
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Trump raids at Ohio meat plants round up union workers
June 21, 2018The UFCW “will provide whatever assistance and counsel we can” to union members among at least 146 workers carted away in a recent ICE raid.
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NY: hispanos demandan a empresa de trenes por discriminación
May 3, 2018Una demanda interpuesta por trabajadores mexicanos, ecuatorianos y dominicanos contra una empresa ferroviaria de Nueva York que, según los denunciantes, los forzó a realizar duras tareas sin material de protección además de discriminarlos por ser inmigrantes.
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‘ICE’: A family-friendly food truck play about immigration
April 30, 2018“Here we have two immigrants trying to figure out how to become ‘American’ and what that means,” says Debbie Devine, director of the world premiere production of Leon Martell’s play ICE, now on stage at the...
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