State Court: Farmworkers Have Right to Unionize
An appeals court ruled that excluding farmworkers from state law giving employees the right to organize is unconstitutional, reports RiverheadLOCAL.
An appeals court ruled that excluding farmworkers from state law giving employees the right to organize is unconstitutional, reports RiverheadLOCAL.
Assembly Member Catalina Cruz unveiled a proposal to turn wage theft into a crime punishable with prison time in New York State, in a bid to put an end to a widespread practice that is exploiting immigrants, El Diario La Prensa reports.
Delivery workers – estimated to be between 25,000 and 50,000 in New York, mostly immigrants – are denouncing police harassment and bike seizures while the restaurants that hire them avoid accountability, El Diario La Prensa reports.
Delivery workers described being targeted by law enforcement for using e-bikes on the job at a press conference on a bill that would legalize the bikes, reports QNS.
Immigrant rights, the Census citizenship question and fair wages were at the forefront of issues raised at this year’s May 1 events in New York and Los Angeles, El Diario La Prensa and La Opinión report.
Legislators made a pitch for replacing the tipped wage with a higher minimum wage, but not all servers favor the change, Kings County Politics reports.
Workers tell El Diario La Prensa that more training and supervision are needed.
Sharmila Shakya, who teaches at colleges across NYC, is one of only a few Nepalese in the field in New York, writes Nepalaya News.
Thanks to a partnership with the NYC Administration for Children’s Services launched in 2016, dozens of parents, many of them immigrants, have graduated from CUNY’s Child Development Associate Certificate program, El Diario La Prensa reports.
Feeling neglected by New York lawmakers, Long Island Hispanic farmworkers demand fair working conditions and labor rights, Noticia Long Island reports.
A group of domestic workers, who are part of Make the Road New York, talk about efforts to curb sexual abuse in their workplace, El Diario La Prensa reports.
Immigrant professionals have a hard time finding jobs that match their skills and knowledge base, reports City Limits.
El Diario La Prensa takes a close look at the Latin American labor and talent in the Garment District that makes Fashion Week possible.
The new, Gender-Based Anti-Harassment Unit of the NYC Commission on Human Rights is fighting sexual abuse cases and providing much-needed help for immigrant domestic workers, El Diario La Prensa reports.
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer launched a campaign to return over $2.5 million in unclaimed stolen wages, targeting mostly Hispanic workers who are often too afraid to claim them, El Diario La Prensa reports.