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If you are organizing workers in California, it’s likely you are organizing immigrant workers. It’s also very likely the employer has threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement when the workers begin to assert their rights and talk about forming a union. Employers too often use the threat of deportation as a form of intimidation, harassment and retaliation against workers and their families. Nothing chills an organizing drive quicker than the threat of calling ICE; it can separate workers from their children, parents and spouses.
Jon Bradford is president of Transport Workers (TWU) Local 226, representing some 800 bus drivers and social service workers in New Jersey. The local is about to grow by 100 members, thanks to a successful organizing campaign by bus driver Luis Del Toro and his co-workers who work for Trans-Ed, a company that provides bus service to school districts in northern New Jersey.
Workers have stood up in the face of low wages and unacceptable conditions to organize new workplaces. Below are some recent major organizing wins....
This month, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander American activists and present-day organizers. For the last week of our monthlong celebration, we honor a contemporary activist on the rise: Deepa Iyer.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner says, "I'm waiting for the senate to act. The House has done its job to fund the DHS."
Scott McAllister of Middletown was fatally shot after a five-hour standoff at his home. His son was not harmed, police said.
A 21-year-old in Vermont remains hospitalized after claiming she was bitten by black widow spider hiding in a bag of grapes at her local supermarket. WPTZ's Hannah McDonald reports.
U.S. officials are working with Qatar to keep five senior members of the Taliban under some form of government control, monitoring or travel ban .
A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied the Justice Department's appeal of a federal district judge's February decision that temporarily blocked President Barack Obama's November executive action on immigration. The court’s ruling threatens immigration relief for as many as 4 million people. Today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued the following statement (read after the jump).
A group of Horace Mann alumni hired a former judge to investigate the abuse scandal.
