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H-2B Guest worker woes
Here is a thoughtful article written for human resource executives about the perils of the H-2B program – the guest worker program used for low wage workers. The article focuses on the problem of recruiting firms which mislead recruits...
Expose of criminal behavior by immigration detention officials
Shocking, but not surprising, news about immigrant detention centers: officials have covered up deaths. The New York Times published an article which can only be called angry – angry at officials who had lied to its reporters in the...
Working on Faith: failures to protect workers in the Katrina cleanup.
In the summer of 2006, I reported on three studies on Katrina cleanup workers. In the last few months, a fourth one was been published. In early summer of this year, Chicago-based Interfaith Work Justice published a report called Working...
Senator Kennedy on New Bedford sweat shop raid
Senator Kennedy is using the New Bedford raid as a platform for moving immigration reform forward. I have posted below his statement, in which he allegaes that Homeland Security's ICE unit swiftly transfered hundreds of the arrested workers to holding...
New expose on H-2A and H-2B guest worker programs.
Bob Herbert of the New York Times devoted his Monday, March 12 column to a forthcoming report by the Southern Poverty Law Center about guest worker program abuses. The title of the report: “Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the...
Recruiter abuses in H-2A agriculture guest worker program
“Low Pay and Broken Promises Greet Guest Workers” in the New York Times reports abuses on the United States guest worker program for agricultural workers, the H-2A program. I have posted on H-2A workers before, and also on a special...
New Orleans suit over H-2B guest workers
The Wall Street Journal (link not available) reported on a suit against Decatur Hotels, the largest pre-Katrina hotel firm in the City, alleging unfair and illegal exploitation of workers it had recruited to work. The problems we hear about labor...
Third study out on labor rights violations on Katrina cleanup
The Advancement Project issued today its report, "Worker exploitation in New Orleans is running rampant." I have not studied it yet but conversations with people involved or who know the study inform me that the researchers found -- as did...
Major developments regarding illegal immigrants, first half of 2006
Here is my wrap up for the past six months. in short, life has become more uncertain for both illegal workers and their employers. And, Hispanics may have become more politicially mobilized. First, the number of illegal workers may have...
Second report on breakdown of worker safety in Katrina cleanup
Two study teams have told me that workers compensation coverage has pretty much disappeared for the estimated 5,000 undocumented workers engaged in the Katrina cleanup. I have already posted about the study conducted by Tulane University and UC Berkeley. I...
Serious breakdown in workers comp for Katrina cleanup
I have been talking with the authors of two studies of immigrant workers engaged in the Katrina cleanup. There are an estimated 10,000 immigrant workers of whom half may be undocumented. Both researchers report that very, very few of their...
Illegal immigrant workers face serious risks in Katrina cleanup
A new study by researchers at Tulane University and the University of California, Berkeley reveals that undocumented workers are being abused even as they provide critical help to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the most costly natural disaster in...
Dept. of Labor helps illegal workers in Katrina clean up to get paid
Today’s Wall Street Journal (no link available) reports that the U.S. Dept. of Labor has been actively supporting efforts by illegal workers to get paid for their work from employers who have stiffed them. Credit much of the effort to...
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