Editorial credit: Mircea Moira / Shutterstock.com By Maribel Hastings The Spanish-language media coverage of the refugee crisis in New York reveals a common denominator among immigrants: they want to ...
Fortune 500 Companies with Immigrant Roots Generated More Money Than the GDP of Most Western Nations
Editorial credit: Primakov / Shutterstock.com By Steven Hubbard | Aug 29, 2023 When Fortune released this year’s Fortune 500 list—the magazine’s iconic ranking of the year’s top-grossing Am...
Department of Labor (DOL) Top Jobs for Workers
By: Linda Nwoke The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is the country’s federal agency in charge of protecting and promoting the welfare of job seekers, workers, and retired workers. The agency pr...
On International Workers’ Day, Unions and Worker Justice Groups Call for Passage of New York For All Act
Hundreds of workers march to Foley Square in New York City to demand stronger worker protections and a full pathway to citizenship for immigrants on May 1, 2022. (Shutterstock) NEW YORK—Unions and w...
NYS Department of Labor Finalizes Farm Worker Overtime Regulations
The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) on Wednesday, February 23 announced the adoption of the final farm labor overtime regulations, codifying Commissioner Roberta Reardon’s order that acc...
TWU: MTA Service Cuts Will Hurt Blue-Collar, Essential, Frontline and Immigrant Workers!
New York City, NY/ USA- 10-31-18: NYC Subway Employee MTA Worker New York City Repairing Station. (Shutterstock) Local 100 President Richard Davis attacked the MTA for planning to cut subway service i...
The U.S. ‘No Daily Cleaning‘ Hotel Policy and Impact on Jamaicans & Other Immigrants
Summer is officially a few weeks away, the time of year when people get out of the house and bask outside with friends and family. The United States celebrates the last Monday in May as Memorial Day. ...
AFL-CIO Calls on Mayorkas to Protect Immigrant Workers
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations in Washington, DC on November 26, 2016. (Shutterstock) The Biden administration has made a historic commitment to support work...
Farmworker Organizing in Washington is Undoing Discriminatory Labor Policies
By Carl Segerstorm, High Country News Last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic kept most people home and emptied supermarket shelves, U.S. farmworkers stayed on the job. Unable to work from home, they su...
In Vermont, a new Model Emerges to Improve Migrant Farmworker Housing
By David Thill, Energy News A migrant worker rights group, a worker-owned construction cooperative, and an efficiency utility are collaborating on new housing designs and financing to improve farmwork...