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The labor action against $1 a day pay and work conditions is taking place at two facilities in California operated by the GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., Alejandra Quintero reports. By Alejandra Quintero Labor Notes At two federal detention centers
At two federal detention centers in California, more than 50 immigrant workers are on strike over unsafe working conditions and low wages. “We are being exploited for our labor and are being paid $1 per day to clean the dormitories,” said strikers at a central California detention center in a June statement received by public radio station KQED. Detained workers, known as
TACOMA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) - When Washington State Rep. Jim Walsh (R-Aberdeen) introduced a budget amendment to the Washington House of Representatives to appropriate $455,0000 to cover the cost of paying minimum wage to patients in civil confinement hospitals, it was in response to a $24 million ruling a U.S. District Judge issued requiring a contractor to pay minimum wage to non-citizen immigrants who are federally detained.
While scathing editorials from left-leaning local media outlets applaud the decision, the realities of the decision are that it will make immigration enforcement even harder than it already is.
BATON ROUGE, La. - Detention facilities in Louisiana that lost population and funding under Gov. John Bel Edwards criminal justice reform measures have benefited contracts to house asylum seekers. In