As Wage Theft Rises, States and Cities Crack Down
Leave your thoughtsFabian Gutierrez logged more than 60 hours a week slicing meat and stocking shelves with cheeses and milk at…
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200 Rally Outside Borough Hall for Immigration Reform
Leave your thoughtsSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The impassioned chant rising from a crowd of nearly 200 last night on the steps…
Two Boro Groups Get City Funds to Help Day Laborers
Leave your thoughtsThe city Department of Youth and Community Development has identified the recipients of three $200,000 stimulus grants designed to…
Groups Spilt $400K in Immigrant Aid
Leave your thoughtsThis week, the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development announced two Queens organizations, Make the Road New Yorkand…
Rally For Immigration Reform Held in New York City; Immigration Organizations Want Comprehensive Law In 2010
Leave your thoughtsNew York Protesters carrying signs declaring "Justice and Dignity for the Immigrants" and "Reform Not Raids" converged inside the…
Queens Workers Demand a Living Wage
Leave your thoughtsBraving more than a foot of snow, on December 20, fifty Make the Road New York members joined with workers,…
Lanzan en Nueva York campaña nacional por reforma migratoria en 2010
Leave your thoughtsNueva York, 13 Ene (Notimex).- Con la participación de cientos de personas y decenas de organizaciones proinmigrantes fue lanzada…
Poverty Wages at the Mall?
Leave your thoughtsElmhursts massive Queens Center Mall is one of the busiest and most profitable malls in the country, but most…
Bronx Battle Line: Development on City’s Dime Must Push Up Wages
Leave your thoughtsRefusing to promise a living wage, a New York retail developer has lost out on about $60 million in…
The Mall as Poverty Wage Center
Leave your thoughtsCan retail workers organize? Can they get a living wage? These may be philosophical questions, but to the thousands of…