In the winter of 2013, Sarait Martinez and I spent our Saturdays in Madera, a midsized farmworker town in Californiaās San Joaquin…
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The current fight within the Republican Party highlights, once again, that ensuring a steady labor supply for corporations remains Trumpās primary focus.…
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Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed in 1993, the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have become…
On August 17, a group of committed migrant activists set forth on a three-day march from Silicon Valley to San Francisco, highlighting…
Humberto Montes de Oca is the Secretary for Internal Relations of the Mexican Union of Electrical Workers (SME). He was originally a…
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