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September 23, 2022 | 0 comments
El Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM), worked closely with women migrant workers for months on the project: Breaking the Shell: How Maryland’s migrant crab pickers continue to be “picked apart”. This...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Days ago, the new agency EFE published an article about a sentence that employer and recruiter Jorge Vásquez received after charging workers illegal recruitment fees in exchange for employment with temporary H-2A visas....
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
According to US law, everyone has the right to a workplace free of known health and safety hazards. In other words, everyone has the right to a safe and healthy workplace. To ensure their rights, migrant workers can raise their voices...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Like many people, “Luis” (a nickname we’re using to protect his privacy) had to keep working during the pandemic. When a recruiter first offered Luis a job as a farmworker in Georgia, he thought it would be a great...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
As people begin seasonal jobs or are called back to their previous jobs as more areas reopen in the United States, many workplaces are still failing to provide basic safety protections against COVID-19 to employees. This means workers...
August 3, 2020 | 0 comments
Several governmental agencies in the United States have developed a guide on how to protect seafood processing plant workers. Even though seafood processing workers in this industry are not exposed to COVID-19 through the fish and...
August 1, 2023 | 0 comments
This Friday at “La Fiesta de los Morralitos” (Celebration of Satchels), you and your loved ones can learn in a fun and useful way for the whole community. We have spoken with three organizers of this event, Elizabeth Cordero...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
The H-2 work visas are temporary permits created so that people can work in the United States for less than 1 year, whether they have any experience and without needing a degree. These workers can obtain employment in agriculture or in...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
With almost 14% of the cases in the entire country, Texas is experiencing one of the strongest outbreaks of the virus in the United States. Experts say that aggressive measures are necessary to slow the spread of the virus, but so far,...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Florida is experiencing one of the strongest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country, and the governor, exhibiting strong prejudice, has blamed migrant farmworkers. But migrant workers have pointed out that the state government reacted late...