With the pandemic, rent strikes have become a widespread response to brutal economic pressure
David Bacon
David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books and numerous articles on the subject and has held photographic exhibitions. He became interested in labor issues from an early age and he was involved in organizing efforts for the United Farm Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Molders' Union and others.
“The federal government has excluded farmworkers from all labor law protections under the National Labor Relations Act for 85 years”
Workers in Mexico and the United States face some of the same challenges–and some of the same employers
For Mexican workers, farmers, and the poor, the pandemic and the new treaty replacing NAFTA are a devastating one-two punch
“Workers are trying to call attention to the danger to the whole community”
Demands for safer working conditions and extra hourly hazard pay during the pandemic are powering a strike wave in the Yakima Valley
The undocumented workers who pick the nation’s food are excluded from the CARES Act
Including the Fight at Google
Farmworkers recently won bargaining rights in New York. But California—once the epicenter of farmworker rights—is falling behind
Refugees flee this Honduran city, which has long been a vast, American-owned sweatshop
