bsmall219h ago
1979!!
> Why does the Western world look to migrant labourers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker – the material circumstances and the inner experience – and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life but at its centre.
https://www.johnbergerhome.com/1975/01/01/a-seventh-man/
#ASeventhMan #JohnBerger #ImmigrantWorkers #MigrantLabor #JeanMohr
InterregnumFeb 16

Valeria Guarneros-Meza reflects on her work alongside Barnsley's Educational Learning Support Hub, and highlights the multi-layered ways that precarity stifles community organisations. She argues that solidarity between different social groups is key for overcoming its debilitating effects.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/barnsley-my-story-unpacking-precarity-in-times-of-austerity-racism-poor-working-conditions/

#precarity #Barnsley #barnsleynorth #labour #work #uk #migrants #England #community #Organize #CommunityDevelopment #communityorganizing #migrantworkers #migrantlabor

Antifa InternationalAug 10, 2025

So ICE has removed age restrictions for new hires. Story:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/ice-is-extremely-desperate-for-you-to-work-for-them/

Question: How much longer before ICE, unable to fill its gestapo jobs because no one is willing to apply for them, is forced to hire undocumented migrants?

#fuckice, #AbolishICE, #chingalamigra, #gestapo, #migrantlabor

ICE is extremely desperate for you to work for them

The latest move? Eliminating age restrictions to become an ICE agent.

Mother Jones
The Times of Central AsiaFeb 10, 2025
British supermarkets may market "local" produce with patriotic packaging, but much of the labor that harvests this food relies on seasonal workers from Central Asia, raising questions about economic dynamics and worker rights. https://timesca.com/half-a-world-away-central-asian-workers-on-british-farms #UK #CentralAsia #SeasonalWorkers #MigrantLabor #BritishSupermarkets
Half a World Away: Central Asian Workers on British Farms - The Times Of Central Asia

Few countries have more patriotic supermarkets than Britain. Whether it’s a sortie through the sausage section, or browsing the fruit aisle, customers are

The Times Of Central Asia
The Times of Central AsiaAug 19, 2024
Central Asians Beaten and Deported from Russia https://timesca.com/central-asians-beaten-and-deported-from-russia/#Russia #CentralAsians #Deported #Migrants #MigrantLabor
Central Asians Beaten and Deported from Russia - The Times Of Central Asia

The punishment for many Central Asians in Russia whose work or residency documents are not in order is pain and humiliation, and then possibly deportation.

The Times Of Central Asia
K. Christine ScarpinattoDec 28, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/migrant-child-labor-audits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU0.pr1b.cb-usAkbXQhA&hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=url-share

#childlabor #migrantlabor

They’re Paid Billions to Root Out Child Labor in the U.S. Why Do They Fail?

Private auditors have failed to detect migrant children working for U.S. suppliers of Oreos, Gerber baby snacks, McDonald’s milk and many other products.

The New York Times
René Merced  🇵🇷Nov 11, 2023

Undocumented Workers Are Challenging France’s Olympics Juggernaut — and Winning

Paris’s flashy new venues for the 2024 Olympics depend on the rather less glamorous labor of undocumented migrant workers. Their recent strike action showed how much the Games depend on them — and won them the right to regular migration status.
https://jacobin.com/2023/11/undocumented-workers-strike-paris-olympic-games-construction
#WorldNews #France #labor #strike #WorkersRights #MigrantLabor #Olympics

Undocumented Workers Are Challenging France’s Olympics Juggernaut — and Winning

Paris’s flashy new venues for the 2024 Olympics depend on the rather less glamorous labor of undocumented migrant workers. Their recent strike action showed how much the Games depend on them — and won them the right to regular migration status.

Carlos H. Conde (HRW)May 24, 2023

TOP NEWS ➡️Marcos 'drug war' death toll now at 294📌#DrugWar raids: 5 cops face rape, sex abuse raps

PLUS➡️#MigrantLabor: 8 out of 10 Filipinos are 'slaves'📌 4 workers sue diplomat employers📌'war with NPA ending'

05/25/23 Philippines human rights news https://humanrightsnews.substack.com/p/marcos-drug-war-death-toll-now-at

Marcos 'drug war' death toll now at 294; #DrugWar raids: 5 cops face rape, sex abuse raps; #MigrantLabor: 8 out of 10 Filipinos are 'slaves', 4 workers sue diplomat employers; 'war with NPA ending'

May 25, 2023: Philippines human rights news

Philippines: Human Rights News
Show threadStoried: San FranciscoMar 7, 2023

Photography by Michelle Kilfeather
Sound design by Kayla Anchell

#ManilatownSF #Filipinos #Filipinas #immigrants #migrantlabor #IHotel #InternationalHotel #gentrification #struggle #protest #labor #ManilatownHeritageFoundation #CarolineCabading #musicians #FillmoreSF #AAPI #storytelling #SanFrancisco #SoundsofTheCity

René Merced  🇵🇷Mar 7, 2023

Arkansas bill to remove work permit requirement for children under 16 goes to Sanders’ desk

https://www.knoe.com/2023/03/06/arkansas-bill-remove-work-permit-requirement-children-under-16-goes-sanders-desk/
#news #childlabor #migrantchildlabor #migrantlabor #childexploitation #labor #politics #government #capitalism #arkansas

Arkansas bill to remove work permit requirement for children under 16 goes to Sanders’ desk

House Bill 1410 goes to Sanders’ desk less than two weeks after the U.S. Department of Labor announced it had fined Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for violating child labor laws at 13 plants in eight states, including Arkansas.

KNOE