From today’s Philadelphia Inquirer: Nannies, house cleaners, and caregivers in New Jersey, an estimated 50,000 workers, will soon gain newprotections in their workplaces. The New Jersey Domestic Worker Bill of…
From today’s NBC News: In the wake of federal investigations into illegal child labor and media reports including an NBC News series on children cleaning slaughterhouses, two Democratic senators are…
From today’s CBS News: Friday was Cesar Chavez Day, and thousands across the country remembered all the work he did for farm worker rights — and all the work that…
From today’s New York Times: Veronica Mota marched under the sweltering sun, hoisting a cloth banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe above her head for miles. “Sí, se puede,” she…
From today’s New York Times: Across the globe, there are 32.5 million refugees seeking safety, many of them adults seeking work. At the same time, severe labor shortages in the…
From today’s Denver Post: Lulu Guerrero wakes up at her home in Wiggins, sometimes as early as 3 a.m., to get out to the farm fields that spread across Weld…
From today’s Seattle Times: A labor contractor based in Adams County denied 165 farm laborers more than $83,000 collectively in overtime pay for cleaning the Gorge Amphitheatre, according to a…
From today’s NPR News Online: When the crowds return to Funland this summer, they’ll find familiar rides like the Fire Engines and the Sea Dragon at this small beachside amusement…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Let me tell you about an American hero whom the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education might find, um, troublesome. He opposed undocumented…
From today’s The Nation Magazine Online: By mid-March, Mars was starting to worry. The 27-year-old was living and working in Little Rock, Ark., where the mayor had just imposed a…