Government Workers in Puerto Rico: A Case Study
The largest employer in Puerto Rico today is the Government. Public service workers presently total 285,000 or roughly 26% of ...
Downward Mobility: Mexican Workers After NAFTA
The Mexican government doesn't really care about us," says Jesds Herndndez, a Mexican migrant worker in Tijuana. "We are routine- ...
The Growing Force of Latino Labor
Thirty years ago Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers union (UFW) brought new life to an otherwise quiescent labor ...
Anniversary Essay: Regis Debray on Che Guevara
We are approaching the 30th anniver- sary of the October 1967 death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Bolivia-an event one ...
Portrait of an Organizer: Edgar deJesus
When Edgar deJesus was growing up in East Harlem in the late 1960s, he was surrounded by the sights and ...
ON THE LINE: LATINO’S ON LABOR’S CUTTING EDGE
While it's too early to talk about a new movement, it's certainly encouraging ful municipal unions, to the AFL-CIO itself, ...