Chaumtoli HuqBy Chaumtoli Huq, Editor and Curator of Law@theMargins “Solidarity is what we want. We do not want to find fault with each other but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do...
By Shukry Cattan Shukry has spent ten years working in the Los Angeles nonprofit sector, providing direct services to refugees and building a strong Arab American community. He has spent time in the Middle East assisting Palestinian refugee youth...
At the recent, Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF) annual convention, the theme reverberating among the speakers and among the worker audience was the importance of unionization. One worker-organizer remarked: “There...
By Rocío Alejandra Avila, a Senior Fellow at the Women’s Employment Rights Clinic of Golden Gate University School of Law. She is a Chicana/Latina community lawyer from San Francisco and a longtime immigrant rights activist and a domestic worker...
“We are building a national, democratic workers’ rights movement” explains Moshrefa Mishu, Garment Workers Unity Forum (GWUF), on their recent campaign by Tuba Group workers for their wages and benefits that has led to street...
By Earl V. Brown, Jr. and Kyle A. deCant Earl V. Brown, Jr. is the Labor and Employment Law Counsel at the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, past Co-Chair of the ABA Labor Law Section’s Committee on International Labor and Employment Law, and a...
By Maurice Pianko. Maurice is the founder of Intern Justice and Pianko Law Group PLLC. A graduate of Fordham Law School, his practice concentrates on wage and hour litigation under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Two years ago, I came up with the...
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#LaborDispatches from Bangladesh
By Chaumtoli Huq Last year, on June 27, 2013, I visited the site of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh, two months after the death of over 1,100 workers. A mother stood looking at the site, mourning the death of her daughter who...
By Victor Narro. Victor is the Project Director for the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, and a lecturer at UCLA Law School and UCLA School of Urban Planning With the end of any chance for comprehensive immigration reform, the immigrant...
By Terri Nilliasca Terri Nilliasca is a daughter of a Filipina domestic worker and decade long volunteer and ally of Damayan. She is currently working at the United Auto Workers in the Global Organizing Institute assisting in curriculum, research...
