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This is the corporate agenda

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#Politics #FederalPolicy Tweets 8.20
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#Politics #FederalPolicy Tweets 8.20

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The New American Slavery

The H-2 visa program invites foreign workers to do some of the most menial labor in America. Then it leaves them at the mercy of their employers. Thousands of these workers have been abused — deprived of their fair pay, imprisoned, starved, beaten, raped, and threatened with deportation if they dare complain. And the government says it can do little to help. A BuzzFeed News investigation.

 

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$20 million settlement in labor trafficking cases of exploited Indian guest workers

For their work securing a landmark $14 million verdict for five immigrant workers, in one of the largest labor trafficking cases ever brought in the United States, the team behind David v. Signal International have been named the 2015 Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year.

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Whistle-blower officer files lawsuit against Batts, BPD

A former Baltimore police officer who blew the whistle on misconduct is suing the agency and its commissioner, alleging that they failed to protect him from retaliation.

Source: www.baltimoresun.com

 

HT @deray & @nettaaaaaaa

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The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?

 

Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don’t like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells.

 

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Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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Migrant Child Labor in the United States [VIDEO]

 

Posted on July 21, 2010 by WITNESS


This post was written by Chanchala Gunewardena, (Clark University 2011), Summer 2010 intern in WITNESS’ Communications department.

Last Thursday, WITNESS was invited to The Paley Center for Media for a screening of a special segment of NBC’s Dateline, titled America Now: Children of the Harvest. This piece, a follow up to a 1998 Emmy Award winning report on migrant farm workers and their families, attempts to see, what has developed and changed in the lives of a particular group of people twelve years on. More specifically however, it is focused on the issue of child labor, as migrant families who work in the agricultural sector tend to be assisted in their work by their whole family, including children under the legal working age (for this specific sector) of twelve.

 

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Source: blog.witness.org

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Migrant Workers sue for being underpaid, poor housing, unsafe transportation and inadequate water

 

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Grand Rapids, accuses Johnston, Iowa-based DuPont Pioneer and two recruiters of violating federal wage and migrant labor laws.

 

…allegations include poor housing, unsafe transportation to the fields and inadequate water.

 

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Source: www.usaonrace.com