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B&H Workers Protest. Photo: Scott Heins/Gothamist
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According to news reports, thousands of immigrants and
their supporters marked the
“Day Without Immigrants” on May 1 with rallies, marches, and job actions in
some forty U.S. cities. The protests in New York were almost certainly the
largest since 2006 but not as large as the massive
marches that year. New York’s 2017 protests were different in two other
ways: in a higher level of participation by native-born supporters, and in a
focus on ongoing struggles of local workers—at the Tom
Cat Bakery, for example, and B&H
Photo.
It is unclear whether employers will be firing
workers who took the day off without permission, as happened in some places
during the February actions. At least two groups of affected workers—in
Michigan and on Long Island—are resisting by filing charges against their
employers with the National Labor Relations Board.—TPOI editor
Thousands of Immigrants to March in May Day Protests Across
the U.S.
Tom K. Wong, a professor of political science at
University of California, San Diego, said the Trump administration's focus on
immigration is generating more support for immigrant rights advocates.
"Every pivot back to the issue of immigration gives the immigrant rights
movement another opportunity to make its best pitch to the public," he
said.
Amy Taxin and Steve Peoples, AP via Time
May 1, 2017
(NEW YORK) — Several hundred teachers picketed outside
Philadelphia schools early Monday as thousands more immigrants and union
members across the United States prepared a series of strikes, boycotts and
marches to protest President Donald Trump's immigration policies.[…]
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Latino Immigrants, Workers Rally on May Day for ‘Day Without
Immigrants’
By Marissa Armas, NBC News Latino
May 1, 2017
Thousands of Latino immigrants, activists, workers and
allies took to the streets on Monday to join in on the national "Day
Without Immigrants" strike. People in more than 40 cities across the
country marched and protested in what organizers said is a response to
President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies.[…]
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B&H Photo Workers Strike on May Day to Protest Their
Jobs Moving to New Jersey
By Emma Whitford, The Gothamist
May 1, 2017
Hundreds of warehouse workers employed by the electronics
and photography company B&H Photo Video launched a one-day strike Monday,
May Day, demanding that their employer roll back a plan to relocate roughly 330
Brooklyn jobs in Bushwick and the Brooklyn Navy Yard to a new facility in New
Jersey.[...]
Workers: Firm fired us after ‘Day Without Immigrants’
protest
By Víctor Manuel Ramos, Newsday
April 18, 2017
Some immigrant workers on Long Island said the protest in
February dubbed “A Day Without Immigrants” turned into days without jobs, after
a Melville distribution and warehousing company fired them for missing work.[…]
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Workers Fired After ‘Day Without Immigrants’ Protest Stand
Up to Ex-Bosses
About 20 Michigan employees have taken their case to the National Labor
Review Board
.
By Kate Abbey-Lambertz, Huffington Post
May 2, 2017
About 20 former employees of a Michigan manufacturing
company have banded together to dispute their firing, which occurred one day
after they participated in national “day without immigrants” protests.
The employees, almost all of whom are Latina women, were
fired in February from EZ Industrial Solutions in Chesterfield, Michigan. They
filed a charge with the National Labor Review Board later that month, the
Detroit Free Press first reported Sunday.[…]
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