Sunday, September 30, 2012

Limits Placed on Immigrants in Health Care Law

By Robert Pear, New York Times
September 17, 2012

WASHINGTON — The White House has ruled that young immigrants who will be allowed to stay in the United States as part of a new federal policy will not be eligible for health insurance coverage under President Obama’s health care overhaul.

The decision — disclosed last month, to little notice — has infuriated many advocates for Hispanic Americans and immigrants. They say the restrictions are at odds with Mr. Obama’s recent praise of the young immigrants. [...]

Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/health/policy/limits-placed-on-immigrants-in-health-care-law.html

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Strikes at Walmart Warehouses Expose Threats in Supply Chain

By Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes
September 24, 2012

A strike at Walmart? Two of them. In a time when few union members dare strike, three dozen Southern California workers who move goods for Walmart were desperate enough to walk off their jobs September 12 even without union protection.

Three days later, 30 workers who’d been organizing with Warehouse Workers for Justice in Elwood, Illinois, southwest of Chicago, walked out, too.

Both groups of workers had taken legal action against their employers, contractors who move goods for Walmart, and their strikes were protesting illegal retaliation. [...]

Read the full article:
http://labornotes.org/2012/09/strikes-expose-hazards-walmarts-supply-chain

Sign a petition supporting the workers:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7209/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11679

Donate to the strike fund:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=05S_PegQZKl7VovSjUR5M9zyJvWNNbC3Y2sPUEVzKmfjo4jHg89hjv84Nc8&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8db02a037e263542f58098410815cf7df7

Join a support demonstration Oct. 1 in Ellwood, IL:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7209/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=50305

For more on Wal-Mart exploiting immigrant workers:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2012/07/119444.html

Friday, September 28, 2012

Migrant Deaths Jump

By Frontera NorteSur, via Grassroots Press
September 10, 2012

Although unauthorized border crossings are down to 40-year lows on the United States’ southern border, the deaths of migrants trying to reach the Promised Land are on the upswing in at least one section of the region. That’s according to Miguel Angel Isidro, Mexican counsel in Laredo, Texas. In remarks to the Mexican press, Isidro said 60 migrants have perished in the zone surrounding Laredo and its sister city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, so far this year. [...]

Read the full article:
http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2012/09/10/migrant-deaths-jump/

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Immigrant Workers Organize at New York Coffee and Pastry Shop

Struggle Erupts at Hot and Crusty
Marty Goodman, New York Indymedia
September 2, 2012

New York, NY, September 1--Yesterday, at the corner of 63 street and 2nd Ave., workers and supporters rallied to save jobs at Hot & Crusty, a chain of pastry shops in Manhattan. Hot and Crusty's was briefly occupied by about 15 people and about four were soon arrested by NY's finest. As of last night, two were released. Pickets are now 24/7 starting at noon Saturday. The best way to get there is by taking the F train to 63rd and Lexington. Be there.

Here's the deal. Hot and Crusty's wants to bust the union by closing. Yesterday was their last day dealing with a union - or so they thought. Organizers from the Laundry Worker's Center say that H & C's hopes to re-open with all new non-union workers. It's criminal! [...]

Read the full article:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2012/09/120148.html

Victory at Hot and Crusty
Marty Goodman, New York Indymedia
September 9, 2012

Great news! We won one in New York--finally! In front of Hot and Crusty, workers announced yesterday that the new owners of the coffee and pastry shop will recognize their independent union and rehire everyone – yes everyone! An extraordinary agreement allows the union to control the rehiring of the immigrant
workforce. No one is to be victimized!

For anyone who has ever been out of work, especially for immigrant workers, this is fantastic news! [...]

Read the full article:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2012/09/120409.html

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Mexican Peace Caravan Occupies Wall Street

Opposing the "Drug War" on Both Sides of the Border

by David L. Wilson, New York Indymedia
September 8, 2012

The well-known Mexican poet and author Javier Sicilia stood on the steps of New York’s Federal Hall a few feet from George Washington's statue on a hot, humid Friday afternoon and pointed across Wall Street to the Stock Exchange. "That building," he called out in Spanish, "is a symbol of the finance capital that launders money."

Surprised tourists, office workers returning from lunch, and a contingent of police on motor scooters watched from the street below. "That building," Sicilia went on, in the low-key style of someone more accustomed to poetry readings than to political speeches, "is a symbol of the finance capital that profits off narco-trafficking." [...]

Read the full article:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2012/09/120367.html

For a version with links, go to:
http://ww4report.com/node/11493