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- Press Release
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WORKERS’ RIGHTS ADVOCATES AGAIN PETITION NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TO IMPROVE COVID-19 PROTECTIONS FOR NORTH CAROLINA EMPLOYEES
RALEIGH – Workers’ rights advocates across North Carolina are petitioning the North Carolina Department of Labor (NCDOL) to adopt rules protecting workers from future public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The groups are calling on NCDOL to put into place health and safety standards to protect North Carolina workers from airborne infectious diseases — a…
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- Workers’ Rights
SPLC: Increase in Visas Must Come with Worker Protections
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week announced an additional 22,000 H-2B visas will be made available to employers this fiscal year. The following statement is from Meredith Stewart, a senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project. “The Biden administration’s expansion of the temporary work visa…
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- Workers’ Rights
SPLC sues farm labor contractor for underpaying H-2A guest workers and threatening to deport them for speaking out
Juan planted sugarcane by hand seven days a week from sunup to sundown, rain or shine, in the blistering Louisiana heat. If he wanted a break or just a sip of water, he had to hide behind the sugarcane – away from his employers’ view – and hope that the drone buzzing overhead did not…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Workers’ Rights
Antonio-Benito v. Lowry Farms, Inc.
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of migrant workers who have faced rampant wage theft by a major farm labor contractor, Lowry Farms, Inc. The guest workers planted sugarcane on farms throughout Louisiana and received pay well below what was required under the law after leaving their homes and…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Workers’ Rights
Isabel Zelaya, et al. v. Robert Hammer, et al.
On April 5, 2018, agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service along with law enforcement from the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Morristown Police Department executed the largest workplace immigration raid in nearly a decade at Southeastern Provision, an East Tennessee meat processing plant. The raid grew out of…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Workers’ Rights
Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), et al. v. North Carolina
A North Carolina state law guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers. North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups – including the SPLC – sued to block implementation of the law on November 15, 2017 in federal district court. The suit was filed on behalf…
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- Workers’ Rights
SPLC denounces congressional vote blocking rule that protects U.S. workers’ wages
The SPLC today criticized Congress for blocking a new regulation that would protect U.S. workers by allowing the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to regulate the wages paid to foreign laborers recruited into the U.S. through the federal H-2B guestworker program.
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- Workers’ Rights
Right to a Safe and Clean Workplace
The Immigrant Justice Project, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is a legal initiative that defends labor rights and civil rights in the Southeastern United States. It has extensive experience in this field, and has ample resources to use in confronting injustice.
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- Workers’ Rights
Rights of H-2A Workers
The Immigrant Justice Project, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is a legal initiative that defends labor rights and civil rights in the Southeastern United States. It has extensive experience in this field, and has ample resources to use in confronting injustice.
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- Workers’ Rights
Rights of All Workers
The immigrant justice project, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is a legal initiative that defends labor rights and civil rights in the Southeastern United States. It has extensive experience in this field, and has ample resources to use in confronting injustice.
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