Workers Fired Over Legal Status While Trying To Unionize
Workers Fired Over Legal Status While Trying To Unionize
On December 2, 2011, Pomona College in Claremont, California fired 17 workers for failing to produce sufficient proof of their ability to work legally in the United States. Before the […]
Obama’s Labor Appointments Are Long Overdue
By René Lara, Political and Legislative Director of the Texas AFL-CIO President Barack Obama recently appointed three nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the government agency that is supposed […]
2.1 Million SEIU Members Endorse President Obama In 2012
By SEIU While bleak job growth plagues working families across the country, the Latino community continues to suffer disproportionately from unemployment with a devastating 11.4 percent rate of joblessness. By […]
Latino Las Vegas Casino Workers Fight For Unionization
By Geoconda Arguello-Kline, President of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 In the neon desert of Las Vegas, Wall Street bankers have teamed up with local billionaires to deny thousands of […]
Latino Civil Rights Figures: César Chávez
[Editor’s Note: This is the first in a weekly series of Latino civil rights figures and organizations profiles in a partnership between News Taco and Pa’lante Latino.] César Chávez was […]
News Taco To Go: Govt Shutdown, Wisconsin, Decapitated Bald Eagle And More
The government is on the verge of a shutdown as Republicans and Democrats have been unable to come to an agreement over the budget. A beheaded bald eagle was found […]
If They Take Wisconsin They Might Go After Our Weekend, Too
By Hector E. Sanchez Workers all over the country are rising up by the thousands to defend the basic American right to collectively bargain. We can fight the anti-union ambush […]
News Taco To Go: Muslims, Earthquakes, Libya, Union Busting And Child Abuse
Republicans in Wisconsin stripped away collective bargaining from public workers. Labor is vowing to recall GOP politicians and fight back. GOP Congressman Peter King is going after Muslims today — […]
What People Of Color Have At Stake In Wisconsin
Images of Latino, Native American, Black, and Asian Wisconsinites are proving elusive in the media coverage of the fight for workers’ rights beyond a recent appearance by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. […]
Secretary Of Labor Hilda L. Solis Supports Unions
I was “raised union.” My mother, who immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua, worked the 3 p.m. to midnight shift at a toy factory after the birth of my […]