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The Southern California Black Worker Hub for Regional Organizing joined the UCLA Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity (CARE) at Work, Black-led community-based organizations, aligned unions and policymakers at a recent Black Worker Summit to engage in solution-oriented discussions of strengthening collaborations that will help build better futures for Black workers.  

  Janice Fine is Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University where she teaches and writes about low wage immigrant labor in the U.S., historical and contemporary debates regarding immigration policy and labor standards enforcement as well as innovative union and community organizing strategies.  She is the author of Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream (2006) published by Cornell University Press and the Economic Policy Institute.

Four experts on the construction industry break down how companies evade accountability for worker's deaths and surviving families are left with little compensation.

In Upstate New York, immigrant dairy hands lobbied the state to amend its labor laws so people who milk cows could rely on the minimum wage and overtime. In Dallas, after an immigrant construction worker died of heat stroke, day laborers and non-union building trades workers persuaded the city to pass an ordinance requiring rest breaks. In Philadelphia and in other cities and states around the ...

Worker Voice Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect) “Unions have been having a rough time even in large workplaces, as their recent defeat at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, makes depressingly clear. What recourse is there, then, for those workers whom the law, the logic of large-scale organizing, and the attention of society all ignore?” Amanda Kludt, Eater) “If we, as a society, as an economy, as an industry, are in such a rush to reopen, then why are we not vaccinating these workers first and foremost”? Many restaurant workers earn less than minimum wage. As these ...