Tag: rights

  • Shining a Light on Domestic Employers

    The recent report, My Home is Someone’s Workplace: Re-envisioning Domestic Employment in New York State, by Hand in Hand was a first-of-its-kind, in-depth look at the demographics, needs, and challenges…

  • Milk Cows Not Workers!

    New York’s dairy production and processing industry generates $14 billion a year and is the star sector of the state’s agricultural economy. Unfortunately, the immigrant workers who provide milking labor…

  • Construction Jobs Lack Basic Provisions in $175 Billion Industry

    As cities in the south continue to boom, workers earn poverty level wages and face dangerous working conditions. Build a Better South report highlights issues plaguing the construction industry in…

  • Stolen Chances: Low-Wage Work and Wage Theft in Iowa

    Despite three years of heightened attention — from our work, from media reports, and from some policymakers — wage theft remains persistent in Iowa,” said Colin Gordon, author of a…

  • A Social Profile of Brazilian Housecleaners in Massachusetts

    The Brazilian Workers Center in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts-Boston investigated the working and living conditions of Brazilian housecleaners in the major Brazilian communities of Massachusetts. The report,  A…