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New report highlights job sites’ costly consequences for Latino migrant workers

Apr 29, 2015, 1:31 PM 0

LatinaLista — The most common Latino stereotypes consist of Latinos (usually migrants) doing the jobs most Americans won’t do. The kind of back-breaking, death-defying climbs and exposed-to-the-elements kinds of jobs that would have most Americans call in sick rather…

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Labor unions need Latino members to survive

Oct 7, 2014, 3:41 PM 0

LatinaLista — Two weeks ago, at the annual conference of the William J. O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a group of economists, policy analysts, academic researchers and anthropologists gathered to…

Local News, Northeast

Lengthy Nursing Homes Strike Impacting Many Latinos

Oct 10, 2012, 9:05 AM 2

By Wayne Jebian CTLatinoNews.com CONNECTICUT — With health care as one of the largest areas of employment for Latinos, a four month old strike by 700 workers at nursing home facilities operated by HealthBridge Management in Newington, Danbury and…