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In Upstate New York, immigrant dairy hands lobbied the state to amend its labor laws so people who milk cows could rely on the minimum wage and overtime. In Dallas, after an immigrant construction worker died of heat stroke, day laborers and non-union building trades workers persuaded the city to pass an ordinance requiring rest breaks. In Philadelphia and in other cities and states around the .
Worker Voice
Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect) “Unions have been having a rough time even in large workplaces, as their recent defeat at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, makes depressingly clear. What recourse is there, then, for those workers whom the law, the logic of large-scale organizing, and the attention of society all ignore?”
Amanda Kludt, Eater) “If we, as a society, as an economy, as an industry, are in such a rush to reopen, then why are we not vaccinating these workers first and foremost”? Many restaurant workers earn less than minimum wage. As these essential workers are being asked to do “much more for so much less,” how many of them will vote with their feet, and what would make them stay?
have been emerging between groups like mine, worker centers, other worker organizations, and the labor movement, the formal labor movement, is sort of a new generation of labor. and i think it holds a lot of promise. we will continue to keep our eyes on this. christine owens, kenji yoshino, ari berman, sherrilyn ifill, and trymaine lee, thanks for being here. coming up, we ll check back in with some of the most ips partial birth aborti inspirational people we met this year, like gene taylor, who shares his music skills with patients at the hospital he works in north carolina. he released this on itunes. we ll be right back. [ sniffles, coughs ] shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something.
do is clarify that. the ad from the center for union facts has been running it shows the afl-cio s and then him in a disguise and says, it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. worker centers are a mix of the good and bad. some of what they do, like providing job training and english as second language classes is wonderful, but some worker centers are also being used by unions as front organizations to advance their own agenda rather than looking at it as a the new york city fastfood worker group blasted the congressman for trying to silent workers. several of the organizations declined to speak with us. who is this mainstream media bias? did the president just give us proof? we report, you. a lot of reporters say that,