Labor
Used and abused: guest workers and U.S. immigration reform
November 23, 2009PITTSBURGH - The room grew quiet as she told her story. Leila Concepcion paid $15,000 to come to the United States and teach. It was a painful decision to leave her country, The Philippines, and place...
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Workers fight back vs. wage theft
November 23, 2009SAN FRANCISCO - "Wage theft" may not yet be a household word, but it's a constant, dismal reality for millions across the U.S.
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San Francisco hotel workers on strike
November 23, 2009About 650 workers at the St. Francis Hotel, one of the city's oldest and most luxurious, walked out on strike on November 18.
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Justice bus rolls to stop wage theft
November 21, 2009HOUSTON — The Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center assembled a group of 30 labor activists to ride the Justice Bus here to bring attention to wage theft.
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‘Health care or food?’
November 21, 2009"The company wants to make us pay $350 a month for our family health care; for me that would mean a 10 percent wage cut."
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