November 17, 2014
To shed new light on how extensively U.S. guestworker programs are used, Jobs With Justice Education Fund along with the Economic Policy Institute, launched the first iteration of GuestworkerData.org today. This resource offers new state-by-state analysis of how employers use nonimmigrant employment visa programs – commonly referred to as “guestworker”… Read More»
Tags: agriculture workers, data, guestworker, guestworkerdata.org, H-1B workers, H-2A visas, H-2A workers, H-2B visas, H-2B workers, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
February 19, 2014
Last year, we publicized the brave protests and strikes the National Guestworker Alliance (NGA) and student guestworkers organized to blow the whistle on retaliation and labor abuse suffered at the hands of McDonald’s restaurants in Pennsylvania. The students, who paid $3,000 to $4,000 for their ‘cultural-exchange’ visas, were shocked to… Read More»
Tags: abuse, guestworker, guestworkers, McDonald's, National Guestworker Alliance, nga, wage theft
