Labor's crucial stake in the fight for immigrant rights
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The struggle for the rights of undocumented workers is discussed in relation to the labor movement and opposition to anti-immigrant sentiment. Topics include the creation of undocumented immigrants as a special category of residents whose rights are denied, anti-immigrant legislation, the economics of undocumented immigration, the union struggles of immigrant workers, and the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrants and Their Families.
Publication Name: WorkingUSA
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 1089-7011
Year: 1998
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Every worker is an organizer: farm labor and the resurgence of the United Farm Workers
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The struggles of California farm laborers to establish or renegotiate union contracts are described, focusing on the California strawberry industry and a march in Watsonville, CA. Topics also include workers in the lettuce, broccoli and date palm industry; support of American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations President John J. Sweeney, and the history of the United Farm Workers.
Publication Name: WorkingUSA
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 1089-7011
Year: 1999
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Immigrant workers ask labor "Which side are you on?"
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The AFL-CIO convention held in Los Angeles, CA, in Oct 1999 concluded by passing a resolution that the US labor law preventing immigrant workers from joining unions should be repealed. Labor unions are organizing a campaign to support the rights of immigrant workers.
Publication Name: WorkingUSA
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 1089-7011
Year: 2000
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