Category Archives: labor

VP Debate Missed Kamala’s Poor Worker Rights Record

When Joe Biden chose California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, he went against [...]

Never-Say-Die House Passes Another Ag Amnesty

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 [...]

BLS Report Encouraging to Vulnerable Hispanics, Blacks and the Disabled

As if the unappetizing buffet of presidential candidates isn’t troublesome enough for the Democratic Party, [...]

Labor Day: Four Decades of Dramatic CEO Income Growth; Peanuts for Workers

A recent Economic Policy Institute Study titled “CEO Compensation Has Grown 940% since 1978” is [...]

More Employment-Based Visas Swiftly Approved, E-Verify Stuck ‘on the Table’

This weekend, President Trump, frustrated with her ineffectiveness, asked for and received the resignation of [...]

More Immigration Incompatible with Layoffs, Automation

The Economic Policy Institute recently released its U.S. wage study. Titled “State of Working America [...]

Mechanization is Permanent Solution to Ag Labor Shortage

California Democrats Sen. Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren recently reintroduced bicameral legislation to [...]

Call to Journalists: Return to Your Abandoned Professional Standards

On New Year’s Eve, The Washington Post published a shockingly biased, even as measured in the [...]

Lackluster November Jobs Report Bodes Poorly for 2019

An unspectacular Bureau of Labor Statistics November report casts doubt on the health of the [...]

Despite Strong Case, U.S. Tech Workers Lose Tata Discrimination Suit

U.S. tech workers suffered a startling federal court defeat when an Oakland, Calif., jury ruled [...]

Japan Gambles on Guest Workers as U.S. Poised to Double a Cheap Labor Visa Program

In a surprising departure from Japan’s low-immigration history, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently agreed to [...]

Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated

Optional Practical Training (OPT), a temporary employment program for foreign undergraduate and grad students on [...]

After Midterms, U.S. Tech Workers Still Friendless in Congress

In Kansas’ Third District, IT has a strong presence with Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Over [...]

Verizon Lays Off 44,000; American Workers Left in Lurch

The headline financial news story of late is Verizon’s announcement that it offered a voluntary [...]

Latest DHS Report: Raining Work Permits for New Immigrants

If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say that he opposes [...]

Doubters Challenge Report that Illegal Immigration is Twice as High as Traditional Estimates

“The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States: Estimates based on demographic modeling with [...]

Fed Chair Calls Slow Wage Growth ‘A Puzzle,’ Ever-Expanding Foreign-Born Force Unaddressed

In its new study, “Tapping the Skills of Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States,” [...]

AMA Lobbies for More Foreign Doctors, but Qualified Americans Shut Out

Last month, the American Medical Association issued a press release that urged U.S. Citizenship and Immigration [...]

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Sol Trujillo Has It Wrong on Immigration & Labor

In his Wall Street Journal opinion piece of August 29, entitled “The Latino Factor Will [...]

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Finally! U.S. Tech Workers’ Prospects Improving

In 2007, the Pittsburgh-based law firm Cohen & Grigsby hosted an immigration seminar in which [...]

Tighter Employment-Based Visa Guidelines are Good for American Workers

Some of President Trump’s immigration campaign promises are inching along and may never be realized. [...]