National Guestworker Alliance

11/17/2017

Scheduled to appear before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this morning, El Salvadoran construction worker and human rights leader Jose Torres sought indefinite sanctuary at First Grace United Methodist Church in Mid-City. “I have decided to take sanctuary because I have two babies who need me. They're destroying me totally as the father of a family. I feel terrible — they're removing me from my daughters' lives. That is why I am fighting against these injustices.”

Fearing deportation to his violent homeland, a Salvadoran construction worker announced Wednesday he is seeking sanctuary at a New Orleans church.

10/04/2017

If you wanted a write a formula for forced labor, Rep. Bob Goodlatte's proposal would be it. The H-2C guestworker visa program he’s proposing would add more misery for desperate migrant workers, subtract labor protections and employer responsibility, and equal disaster for guestworkers and the U.S. workers alongside them. It’s a guaranteed race to the bottom. - Saket Soni

http://www.guestworkeralliance.org/2017/10/proposed-guestworker-program-is-a-formula-for-forced-labor-10417/

10/04/2017

NGA director Saket Soni calls out Bob Goodlatte's new guestworker proposal for the disaster it is:

“A massive expansion like this is a greater opportunity to exploit a greater number of people all at once,” says Saket Soni. “It takes the worst provisions of current migrant worker programs and bundles them into some sort of toxic policy cocktail.”

It's competitive disadvantage versus "human dignity at work." And it could change everything for the people who produce what we eat.

09/22/2017

The State of Louisiana has moved to scrap a state law denying immigrants marriage equality, following a powerful rebuke that advocates won against the law in federal court in August.

Read our statement:

After advocates win in court, lawmakers abandon law that denied immigrants the right to marry NEW ORLEANS, September 21, 2017—The State of Louisiana has moved to scrap a state law denying immigrants marriage equality, following a powerful rebuke that advocates won against the law in...

09/05/2017

cancellation continues Trump's politics of hatred & white supremacy - and we will http://nowcrj.org/2017/09/05/trumps-daca-cancellation-continues-politics-hatred/

On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Below is a statement by Saket Soni, Executive Director of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) and National Guestworker Alliance (NGA): “America faces...

08/11/2017

LOVE WINS in Louisiana! Teaming up with National Immigration Law Center and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice legal department brought home a huge win for immigrant justice this week: the Bayou State can no longer deny foreign-born US citizens who cannot produce a birth certificate the right to marry.

Together, we win. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana/articles/2017-08-09/judge-blocks-law-requiring-birth-certificates-to-marry

A federal judge has permanently blocked a Louisiana law that prevented foreign-born U.S. citizens from getting married if they couldn't produce a birth certificate.

08/07/2017

Law students & practicing lawyers! Apply for a fellowship with us! We are looking to sponsor one or more individuals for 2018 post graduate fellowships like Equal Justice Works [link], Skadden, Soros Justice, Liman etc. We welcome applicants interested in implementing a one or two-year fellowship project on the seafood worker campaign, which could focus on research, policy advocacy, member support or labor standards litigation (OSHA, FLSA etc) to improve working conditions in this industry, or other worker or immigrant rights fellowships. See full announcement for more information and how to express your interest.

http://nowcrj.org/join-our-team/

07/31/2017

👋🏾 Sign the petition for Nissan workers by August 3! ✊🏾

Thousands of auto assemblers at Nissan’s Canton, Mississippi factory, are coming together to create a better workplace. But Nissan is trying to discourage its majority African-American workforce from exercising their freedom to join together in union.

Send a message to Nissan today and demand that the profitable corporation ends its interference in the upcoming union election. --> https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-nissan-anti-union-intimidation-is-unacceptable

07/27/2017

📝👉🏿 Have you signed the petition yet?👈🏿 📝

Thousands of auto assemblers at Nissan’s Canton, Mississippi factory, are coming together to create a better workplace. But Nissan is trying to discourage its majority African-American workforce from exercising their freedom to join together in union.

Send a message to Nissan today and demand that the profitable corporation ends its interference in the upcoming union election. → https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-nissan-anti-union-intimidation-is-unacceptable ⏎

The profitable auto giant is trying to discourage its majority African-American workforce from exercising their freedom to join together in union. Will you join me in supporting the working people at Nissan?

05/31/2017

Celebrating a big win against racism, xenophobia, and criminalization in Louisiana!

http://nowcrj.org/2017/05/31/louisiana-legislature-rejects-anti-immigrant-agenda/

BATON ROUGE, May 31, 2017—Immigrant workers, families, and other members of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) celebrated the defeat on Tuesday of three anti-immigrant bills in the Louisiana State Legislature, including two aimed at attacking New Orleans’ sanctuary city poli...

05/22/2017

Two filmmakers are raising $500,000 to enable them to pay a diverse group of 20 subjects throughout the United States $250 a week for two years, a grassroots universal basic income experiment. They plan to document what having a basic income will do in the 20 individuals' lives, and will release a documentary about the project during the 2020 election. The filmmakers point out that for UBI to ever be viable, it must move from the elitist spheres of academia and Silicon Valley to the hearts and minds of everyday Americans.

Read more—and find out how to apply to be in the study—here:
https://www.fastcompany.com/40422026/want-a-basic-income-apply-to-be-in-this-documentary

What would you do if you got unconditional cash every week? Two filmmakers want to find out.