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    Two Years After Deadly Nitrogen Leak at Georgia Poultry Plant, A Big Step Forward to Protect Immigrant Workers Reporting Labor Abuses

    Two Years After Deadly Nitrogen Leak at Georgia Poultry Plant, A Big Step Forward to Protect Immigrant Workers Reporting Labor Abuses

    Shelly Anand, Michelle Lapointe, and Alessandra Stevens + 1 more

    Jan 27, 2023 Two years ago, on January 28, 2021, Gainesville, Georgia was the site of a tragic and entirely preventable liquid nitrogen leak at a poultry plant, which killed six workers. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, traumatized immigrant...

    How the Trump Administration Is Using Ineffective No-Match Letters in a Way That Hurts Seniors, Workers, and Employers

    How the Trump Administration Is Using Ineffective No-Match Letters in a Way That Hurts Seniors, Workers, and Employers

    Oct 31, 2019 This past spring, the Social Security Administration (SSA) sent over 500,000 SSA “no-match” letters to employers across the country. And this fall, they’re at it again. An SSA no-match occurs when the names or Social Security numbers...

    Don’t Be Fooled: Funding for ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Is Funding for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda

    Don’t Be Fooled: Funding for ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Is Funding for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda

    Jessie Hahn

    Feb 8, 2019 While the public may think that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) focuses primarily on national security and transnational crime, HSI is also responsible for certain immigration enforcement functions inside the U.S. (known as “interior...

    This Cesar Chavez Day, Immigrant Workers Fight Back Against Trump through Robust Organizing and Resistance

    This Cesar Chavez Day, Immigrant Workers Fight Back Against Trump through Robust Organizing and Resistance

    Jessie Hahn

    Mar 30, 2017 March 31st is the birthday of Cesar Chavez, the American civil rights activist and labor organizer who cofounded the United Farm Workers with Dolores Huerta. In honor of Chavez’s legacy, we highlight some new forms of immigrant-worker...

    Want to Join the Trump Resistance? Here’s the Playbook.

    Want to Join the Trump Resistance? Here’s the Playbook.

    Angel Padilla

    Jan 20, 2017 What happened on the night of November 8, 2017, was as awful as it was unexpected. After he’d campaigned on racist, xenophobic, and sexist rhetoric, Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States. In response, a group of...

    Expanded Joint Policy Provides New Protections for Immigrant Workers Who Allege Employment Discrimination

    Expanded Joint Policy Provides New Protections for Immigrant Workers Who Allege Employment Discrimination

    Jessie Hahn

    Aug 31, 2016 When workers decide to come forward to make complaints about labor violations in their workplaces, they face many risks—being isolated from coworkers or retaliated against by their employers, losing their jobs, or even being blacklisted so...