Unions in the Resistance Against ICE
San Francisco workers demonstrate. Photo: David Bacon How Unions Help Immigrants Resist Deportations No one knows better than union activists that there's zero chance for this kind of basic immig…
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Book Review: The Politics of Immigration
This book offers illuminating context on immigration issues. It also provides useful talking points, facts and figures for chatting up anti-immigrant co-workers. By Eve Ottenberg, Labor Notes Februar…
The Postville Boss Gets Out of Jail. What About His Immigrant Workers?
Didn't Postville workers' families suffer too? Photo: Stephen Mally/NY Times On December 20 President Trump commuted the 27-year prison sentence of former kosher meatpacking magnate Sholom R…
Nike Automation: Threat to the Asian 'Sweatshop'?
Will automation cause labor's share of production costs to diminish ever further? I have a whole @#$%load of books I've been trying to find time to read concerning the threat of automation to…
Why Workers Support Trump, and What to Do About It
A powerful feature article in the Times this week gets across the real suffering of many native-born U.S. workers as their industrial jobs are relocated to Mexico and they are forced into lower-payi…
The Movement and the Money
What’s behind the recent rise in wages for undocumented workers? It could be immigrants’ rights activism. Graffiti on the Mexican side of the wall. Photo: Jonathan McIntosh/Flickr David L. Wilson, Ja…
Protect the Dreamers, but Don't Fall for an E-Verify "Compromise"
Liberal commentators have written favorably about the program in the past.... But E-Verify isn't really any better than Trump's "big beautiful wall." By David L. Wilson, Truthout Oc…
Milk with Dignity Agreement Signed!
By Migrant Justice October 3, 2017 Click here now to donate online! Buy a Migrant Justice "Can't Trump Human Rights" t-shirt today! Just moments ago, farmworker leaders from Migrant Jus…
Thu Oct 5: Tell Ben & Jerry's: Human Rights Can't Wait!
UPDATE, October 3, 2017: Ben and Jerry's has signed the agreement and Migrant Justice has called off the National Day of Action. Thanks and congratulations to everyone who supported this effort!…
Miscellaneous News: Detention Center Lawsuit, Suppressed Refugee Report, World Citizenship Poll
Victory for Immigrant Hunger Strikers: Lawsuit Challenges Slave Wages at Private Jail By Mike Ludwig, Truthout NWDC protest. Photo: Thomas Soerenes/The News Tribune/AP September 22, 2017 For three ye…
Labor Unions Are Stepping Up to Fight Deportations
Organized labor is finding creative ways to protect immigrant members and families vulnerable in the Trump era. By Dave Jamieson, Huffington Post September 12, 2018 Yahaira Burgos was fearing the wor…
Long Island Teamster's deportation is a wakeup call: Unions must protect their immigrant members
"We deserve our share of the blame for not doing more to engage our members on issues of racial justice and immigrant rights in recent decades. When we fail to talk to our members about these is…
Immigrant Workers: Important “Dirty Laundry” Piece, Update on Tom Cat Bakery Campaign
Dirty Laundry: An Investigation By Annie Hylton, Dissent Summer 2017 Drying and ironing press at an industrial laundry facility (xtrekx / Shutterstock) It was before 6 a.m. on January 5, 2011 when Ma…
Organizing Against Racism: Two Articles
We feel these two articles make points that are important for all of us interested in organizing around immigrant rights. The articles don’t focus on immigration specifically, but there’s no way to a…
Two Reviews: In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte
Two new reviews of David Bacon’s latest book have come out recently. Both are available at Bacon’s blog, The Reality Check: https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2017/08/two-reviews-in-fields-o…
When Deportation Is a Death Sentence: One Domestic Worker's Fight for Survival
By Sheila Bapat, Truthout August 13, 2017 Reina Gomez, 49, has been cleaning homes and caring for elderly people in South Florida since 2002. Her earnings as a domestic worker support her treatments…
Braceros Strike After One Worker Dies
By David Bacon, American Prospect August 9, 2017 Risking deportation, Washington state farmworkers protest dangerous conditions in the fields. A farmworker’s death in the broiling fields of Washingto…
Books on Immigration: Two Recommendations
Here are two books on immigration for which we’ve received recommendations from reliable sources, so please check them out..—TPOI editor Elvira's Faith and Barack's Challenge: The Grassroots …
A New Farm Worker Union Is Born
Indigenous Oaxacan farm workers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest. David Bacon, American Prospect June 26, 2017 Bob's Burgers and Brew, a hamburger joint at the Cook Road freeway ex…
Fighting for the Sanctuary Workplace: Unions Mobilize to Protect Undocumented **UPDATED**
This important new article from David Bacon describes ways unions can move to protect workers from ICE raids—and “silent raids”—at the workplace. By David Bacon, Truthout June 24, 2017 Sanctuary work…