By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego Last week, San Diego became the largest city in the United States to pass a minimum wage hike and earned sick days policy, but workers’ groups say it is not enough…
By Kyra Gurney InSight Crime One of Brazil‘s largest construction companies has been accused of human trafficking and keeping workers in slave-like conditions, underscoring the pervasiveness of labor abuses among Brazilian companies. Brazil’s Ministry of Labor has begun judicial…
LatinaLista — It’s never been a secret that US employers preferred to hire undocumented Latino immigrants for three reasons: they’re cheap labor, they’re expendable and they have no recourse, but to quit, if they don’t like job conditions, their…
LatinaLista — There’s no doubt that the Presidential campaign of 2008 will go down in history for a variety of reasons. One of those is the amount of political activism it inspired among people who never before dreamt of…