David Bacon From the introduction of the original Simpson-Mazzoli Bill in the mid-1970s, the key provisions of U.S. anti-immigrant legislation have been…
David Bacon I’m going to sing you a story, friends (Voy a cantar compaƱeros) that will make you cry, (algo que…
Plant managers called them the “jonkeados”—the junked ones. They were workers who got so sick, so chronically disabled, that they were given…
Even though she was working 40 hours a week at the Valencia Street Travelodge, Matilde (the women’s last names are not used…
In early February, when Mexico’s Federal government moved to end the strike at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), its action was motivated…
David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers…
David Bacon & Bill Berkowitz King City, California is a tough agricultural town about an hour south of Salinas. In King City,…
David Bacon In the mile-high mountains of the Sonora desert, just 25 miles south of the border between Arizona and Mexico, over…
Liverpool was once the strongest union port in Britain, a country where all dockworkers were unionized for over 100 years. Under past…
When the polling began at the two big, state-of-the-art hospitals on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, over 1,000 workers…
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