immigrant labor
June 14, 2012 -
Perseverance paid off for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in North Carolina as Reynolds finally agreed to meet with the union to discuss tobacco pickers' abysmal work conditions.
June 13, 2012 -
You'd think that people who were devastated by hurricanes and failed levees, whose homes and businesses were built back in large part thanks to immigrant labor, would support rules to protect these workers -- but that's not been the case.
April 20, 2007 -
On April 9, the tied and beaten body of Santiago Rafael Cruz -- a leader of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee -- was found dead in the union's Mexico-based office in Monterrey. Few leads have turned up, but FLOC President Baldamar Velasquez is convinced Cruz's torture and murder were "a pure political attack" to intimidate workers.
May 1, 2006 -
20,000 in Orlando, thousands more in rest of Florida ...
May 1, 2006 -
Usually, May Day -- celebrated world-wide as International Workers Day -- is ignored by most Americans. But this year promises to be different, thanks entirely to the growing movement for immigrant rights.
November 1, 1995 -
A Nicaraguan man keeps a journal of migrant labor.
March 1, 1992 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 20 No.
