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We are workers, not criminals
May 3, 2008In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: 'We are workers, not criminals!' Often it was held in the calloused hands of men...
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May Day: finding its way back home
May 2, 2008I’ve always wanted a button that reads, “Workers of the world unite, back by popular demand” — almost as long as I’ve wanted one that says, “May Day, made in the USA.” May Day 2008 would...
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Dockworkers protest Iraq war, stay off job on May 1
May 2, 2008“We’re standing up for America, we’re supporting the troops, and we’re telling politicians that it’s time to end the Iraq war now!” longshore union workers say. More than 25,000 longshore workers at 29 west coast ports...
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McCain a no-show on equal pay for women
May 2, 2008GOP presidential candidate John McCain is saying it’s fine with him if women never get justice for pay discrimination they suffer on the job. Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama left their campaign trails and...
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In Mississippi, work is now a felony for undocumented immigrants
May 2, 2008JACKSON, Miss. (4/20/08) -- On March 17, Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. Employer sanctions is a shorthand name for laws that...
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