Going for Broke: The Corporate Players Behind the Demise of the Caribbean Banana Trade (Part 2)

Going for Broke: The Corporate Players Behind the Demise of the Caribbean Banana Trade (Part 2)

Price wars between supermarkets seeking to gain the lowest possible cost of bananas has led to a race to the ...
Video: Immokalee Workers Fast for Justice in Florida

Video: Immokalee Workers Fast for Justice in Florida

After more than four years of asking the supermarket chain Publix to sit at the table and negotiate a Fair ...
Recovery in the U.S. and Mexico: A View From the Bottom

Recovery in the U.S. and Mexico: A View From the Bottom

It is a sad truth that the structure of the Mexican economy in the early twenty-first century requires that poor ...
A Right to Work for All

A Right to Work for All

The human right to work is increasingly under attack in the United States, especially for unauthorized immigrants. The recent case ...
Puerto Gaitan: On the Move Again

Puerto Gaitan: On the Move Again

Colombian oil workers resumed their protests in Puerto Gaitan last week, once again confronting security forces. The new protests come ...
Behind the Oil Workers’ Strike in Colombia

Behind the Oil Workers’ Strike in Colombia

Last week, in perhaps the largest recent strike in Colombia, 10,000 workers walked out of several multinational oil companies in ...
Social Insecurity

Social Insecurity

For many Mexicans, holding a decent, steady job has become either a distant memory or a fading hope. An increasing ...
Critical Mass: Latino Labor and Politics in California

Critical Mass: Latino Labor and Politics in California

Last year’s massive immigrant rights marches heralded the emergence of a new civil rights movement in the United States. But ...
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