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For Mexican workers, farmers, and the poor, the pandemic and the new treaty replacing NAFTA are a devastating one-two punch
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.
“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
This co-op uses the tradition of mutual help that is part of the indigenous culture of the workers themselves
The assault on farm worker wages has also surfaced in Congress as Republicans in the House and Senate introduced bills in the last two years to also end protections for H-2A workers and expand their recruitment
For 61 days members of UNITE HERE Local 2 struck at seven Marriott hotels in San Francisco during a national campaign targeting the world’s largest hotel corporation. The San Francisco union was the last to settle and go back to work