Threatening Phone Call Shows Intimidation of Undocumented Workers

In recent Congressional testimony, Bill Beardell, Director of the Equal Justice Center, discusses a threatening phone call that was made by an employer to an undocumented worker. Before playing the recorded phone message, Bearsdall makes the point that lax enforcement of labor laws creates incentives for employers to prefer higher undocumented workers.

Gandhi Joins with Martin Luther King: Jobs with Justice National Conference

Here is one ongoing story of struggle by workers against exploitative corporate globalization. It is part of the rich tapestry presented at the Jobs with Justice National Conference in Providence, which assembled several hundred activists from forty local coalitions that campaign for workers’ rights. These delegates, diverse in age, race and culture, shared [...]

Cesar Chavez:”Presente”– a tribute

By Duane E. Campbell

The spirit of Cesar Chavez lives on in the struggle for union rights and justice in the fields of California. Along with Dolores Huerta, Philip Vera Cruz, and others, César created the United Farm Workers (UFW) the first successful union of farm workers in U.S. history. There had been [...]

Chicano students help Blue Diamond Workers

Chicano Students rally to almond workers’ cause
The nation’s largest Chicano student group brought some 400 students protestors on March 21,2008. to the Sacramento plant in support of the Blue Diamond workers’ long fight to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

Since its founding in [...]