On Dec. 11, Smithfield workers were not just celebrating a vote count. They’d just defeated one of the longest, most bitter anti-union campaigns in modern U.S. labor history.
David Bacon
David Bacon is a California writer and photojournalist; his latest book is In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte (University of California / El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2017).
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Black and Brown Together
In Mississippi, African American leaders are the foremost champions of the state’s growing Latino immigrant population. Some day soon, they hope, the new alliance will transform the state’s reactionary politics.
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Mexican Miners’ Strike for Life
Copper miners in Mexico face down powerful corporations, company-backed unions, and government corruption to secure basic health, safety, and benefits for workers.
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No Justice with No-Match Rule
A Bush administration proposal would have resulted in mass firings of workers just in time for Christmas. But an effort by the labor and immigration movements has led courts to intervene and halt the plan — for now.
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Time for a More Radical Immigrant-Rights Movement
Congress’s failure to pass immigration reform legislation is being used to crack down on undocumented immigrants in several states.
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Iraqi Oil: A Benchmark or a Giveaway?
Why Iraqi oil workers oppose the much- vaunted oil law. PLUS: TAP talks to Iraqi union leaders, and an accompanying photo essay.
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Iraqi Union Leaders Call for an End to the Occupation
TAP talks to Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Workers Union of Iraq.
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Trading on Migrant Labor
Why we won’t be able to enact true immigration reforms until we re-examine our trade policies.
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Feds Crack Down on Immigrant Labor Organizers
Recent immigration raids in North Carolina weren’t just about deporting undocumented workers.
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Murder and Migration
Development projects anywhere in the world often have a high human cost. In Colombia, the price is often measured in human lives and blood. Esperanza (she would risk her life, she says, if her real name appeared in print) saw her neighbors pay that price in 2001. Her house sits on the bank of the […]