Labor

Employers Fight Tough Measures on Immigration (New York Times)

6 Jul 2008

Amid crackdowns on the use of illegal immigrant labor, employers across the country are pushing back in state legislatures, the federal courts and city halls

Whistler urged to look south for labor (Vail Daily)

6 Jul 2008

WHISTLER, B.C. — The usual solution to labor shortages in the United States has been to look south of the border. In Canada, a professor for Simon Fraser University told a crowd in Whistler recently that the resort should do the same.

Labor and Enviros unite: you read that right (Pulse of the Twin Cities)

5 Jul 2008

“The jobs crisis and the environmental crisis are driven from the same source. Corporate America is ripping off the environment and corporate America is ripping off American workers and their families,� said author and 25-year union organizer Jack Rasmus in his keynote speech at the Labor and Sustainability Conference, held recently in St. Paul.