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$1.2M for Cheated Immigrant Workers in NYC

"Another week, another rogue employer bites the dust. In what is as much a part of New York’s urban landscape as the Brooklyn Bridge, one more dishonest employer has been found brazenly cheating immigrant workers — and will have to pay...

Published Mon, Apr 9 2012 10:46 AM by Daniel M. Kowalski

Filed under: workers, nyc, settlement

Immigrant Worker Firings Unsettle a College Campus

"The dining hall workers had been at Pomona College for years, some even decades. For a few, it was the only job they had held since moving to the United States. Then late last year, administrators at the college delivered letters to dozens of the...

Published Wed, Feb 1 2012 7:18 PM by Daniel M. Kowalski

Filed under: workers, i-9, pomona, fired, college

Immigration crackdowns cost Washington apple growers

"Apple growers say they could have had one of their best years ever if a shortage of workers hadn't forced them to leave some fruit on trees." Associated Press, Nov. 11, 2011 .

Published Sat, Nov 12 2011 1:53 PM by Daniel M. Kowalski

Filed under: workers, shortage, washington, apples, harvest

With migrant workers scared off by immigration crackdown, Wash. orchards desperate for pickers

"Apple growers say they could have had one of their best years ever if a shortage of workers hadn’t forced them to leave some fruit on trees. Growers in Washington state, which produces about half of the nation’s apples, say the labor...

Published Wed, Nov 9 2011 10:45 AM by Daniel M. Kowalski

Filed under: workers, shortage, washington, apples, harvest

Who will pick Washington's apples?

"On any given day in October, weather permitting, about 45,000 workers are needed to harvest Washington’s tree fruit. If all goes well, before the snow falls they will have picked about $1.5 billion worth of food. That’s for apples alone...

Published Fri, Nov 4 2011 8:32 AM by Daniel M. Kowalski

Filed under: workers, shortage, washington, apples, harvest

Even documented workers driven out by Alabama law

"Alabama's strict new immigration law may be backfiring. Intended to force illegal workers out of jobs, it is also driving away many construction workers, roofers and field hands here legally who do backbreaking jobs that Americans generally...

Published Tue, Oct 11 2011 5:01 PM by Daniel M. Kowalski

Filed under: immigration, Alabama, workers, backfiring

After immigration raid, Sacramento nursery rebounds - but questions U.S. policy

"An ICE investigation last spring uncovered 61 undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America at Matsuda's – 60 percent of its full-time staff, including the company's longtime foreman. In the middle of Easter rush – the...

Published Tue, Oct 11 2011 4:32 PM by Daniel M. Kowalski

Filed under: immigration, workers, ice, sacramento, raid, matsuda's

Foreign-Born Wage and Salary Workers in the US Labor Force and Unions

"This Spotlight looks at the available data on immigrant workers and unions, highlighting variations in union representation rates of immigrant workers across certain sectors." Jeanne Batalova, Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2011 .

Published Tue, Oct 4 2011 4:11 PM by Daniel M. Kowalski

Filed under: immigrants, unions, jobs, workers

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$1.2M for Cheated Immigrant Workers in NYC

Immigrant Worker Firings Unsettle a College Campus

Immigration crackdowns cost Washington apple growers

With migrant workers scared off by immigration crackdown, Wash. orchards desperate for pickers

Who will pick Washington's apples?

Even documented workers driven out by Alabama law

After immigration raid, Sacramento nursery rebounds - but questions U.S. policy

Foreign-Born Wage and Salary Workers in the US Labor Force and Unions