Sentences with phrase «as immigrant workers»

There is certainly a higher quantity of gay males, as well as immigrant workers, who skew the numbers.

To be selected as an immigrant worker, the foreign worker must:

Not exact matches

Agencies also provide a crucial stepping stone into the job market for groups that tend to have trouble finding their first jobs, such as young workers and new immigrants.

Uber came under renewed pressure over the weekend for a Tweet promoting surge - free pricing during a taxi worker strike in support of immigrants impacted by Trump's Executive Order, which has been widely interpreted as a Muslim ban.

In contrast, when new immigrants are more fluent in English, as the Trump - backed proposal would encourage, the types of occupations they are qualified for are almost identical to those of American workers.

As someone who researches the impact of immigration on workers, I believe the GOP plan and ending DACA would both be big mistakes, in part because they'll make the pool of immigrants in the U.S. much less diverse.

The dirtiest, most physically demanding, and most dangerous of these jobs — in fields such as construction, landscaping, and building maintenance, for example — are overwhelmingly filled by immigrants, who now account for more than half of all low - skilled workers in the U.S..

As the «Czar of Cars» discusses on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires,» Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif. working in a first - generation Indian family of immigrant farm workers.

«As a company whose success is built on a foundation of hard work by immigrant workers, Uber can and should do better to stand up for immigrants and their workers.»

-- Similarly exploited immigrant labor without labor rights (all temporary and dual purpose immigrants), employer sponsorship being the key to suppressing wages (plus all of David Card's papers and equations are wrong due to DNWR)-- Fair Labor Standards Act generally doesn't apply to office workers and other positions that corporations tag as professionals and / or managers, despite recent Obama hike of minimum applicable wage.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

Some labour force data is available for workers who self - identify as aboriginal (off - reserve only), and workers with landed immigrant status.

While the E-Verify system has well - documented problems (both in terms of falsely identifying legal workers as «illegal» and failing to catch unauthorized immigrants), making it universal could still kick millions of unauthorized immigrants out of work or force them into the underpaid underground economy.

During the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general strike.

As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose.

Although the region was visited by traders from China for centuries, the first main Chinese influx came in 1820s, as immigrants worked as construction workers on the building of Singapore, and the second wave of laborers came in the 1840s to work the tin mines.

As reported by SAMPAN, the company employs workers from 38 countries, and 95 percent of its work force consists of immigrants.

«As a union that represents workers in an industry built on immigrant labor, we are excited to endorse Grace Meng for Congress,» said Ward.

It is, therefore, not surprising that Ghanaian workers in the United States of American have been adjudged as the most hardworking immigrants in the Union.

«To me, our concerns as immigrants and low - wage workers are not being addressed enough.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as CroatiAs part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatias Croatia.

He ran slick ads promoting his record as attorney general probing Wall Street firms and standing up for workers and immigrants.

The income is probably similar to what you can make as a professional in Romania and in fact the drain on qualified workers is a huge problem from the perspective of the «sending countries» (just for context: Romanian citizens can come and go and work in Germany completely legally without any visa or permit under European Union rules so their situation is quite different than that of illegal immigrants in the US).

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

The shadow health secretary promised that Labour would run its own Yes campaign, focusing on issues such as preventing workers being «undercut» by EU immigrants, exclusive recruitment from overseas and strengthening enforcement of the national minimum wage.

Sarsour served as emcee for the 5,000 - strong rally and musical celebration called «Rise Up: Immigrant Rights and Workers» Rights,» organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, New York Teamsters and Churches United for Fair Housing.

NEW YORK — Protesters took to the streets Tuesday to mark May Day, demanding better rights for workers as well as protections for immigrants.

Baal - Owens began her career as a social worker working with immigrant families and their children.

Complete statistics are not collected on how many temporary foreign scientific and technical workers are in the country, where they work, and whether they leave the country when their visas expire or, as critics suggest, move into the illegal immigrant pool.

Perhaps, Senator, you missed the Senate testimony by Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.:» [S] killed immigrants... can displace U.S. workers, as has happened in the technology / engineering sector,» she said.

However, the pattern of geographic inequality extended to other occupations as well: The study finds that immigrants from Asia seeking jobs in the U.S. as cooks and construction workers are, respectively, 42 percent and 81 percent more likely to have their applications approved than immigrants from Latin America seeking jobs in those areas.

The second and third generations of immigrant workers experienced new and serious health problems as result.

The fact that many of the victims of what became known as «the Bisbee Deportation» were Mexican workers and European immigrants did not escape the attention of documentarian Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine)-- or that 2017 would be the centennial anniversary of the incident.

And it undeniably plays differently in the wake of worker strikes today for «A Day Without Immigrants» and greater divides between the working class and the President of the United States than when the film premiered at Toronto last year (which is not meant as a political statement, just a fact, and not an alternative one).

Back in 1996, Callaghan organized 70 Spanish - speaking immigrant parents, who boycotted the Ninth Street Elementary School — calling for an end to failed bilingual - education methods and instead demanding that the school system teach the children of immigrant garment workers academic English as soon as possible.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says that the number of people in need of more schooling and training — counting dropouts, the unemployed, immigrants who speak little English and middle - aged workers in declining industries — is three times as large.

The Madison teachers union is cited for its role in helping organize last spring's massive protests at the state Capitol in response to Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers, as well as other legislation including strict voter ID requirements that are likely to limit voting by college students, the elderly, the poor and immigrants.

Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.

Her growing love for the children she teaches as well as the town's maligned Italian immigrant workers fuels her to meet the many challenges of frontier life.

After teaching, she attended Harvard Law School as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and worked legal aid at a nonprofit for Spanish - speaking immigrants in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, on a Skadden Fellowship, with a focus on tenants» and workers» rights.

Last year, Canada welcomed more than half a million newcomers to our country as immigrants, international students and temporary foreign workers.

To qualify for any special offer pertaining to the BMO NewStart program as set out above, a customer must be a landed immigrant or foreign worker who arrived in Canada within the last five (5) years.

New immigrants pour in, not workers off the Hudson piers — or even just the many artist born elsewhere, as relfected in the 2000 Whitney Biennial — but galleries from uptown and down.

Sculptures such as Platano (Carlos Calles) and Saguaro (Nora Oviedo) were completed during a special project called Space in Between in Houston as part of a collaboration with immigrant workers to share their stories and raise awareness about fair working conditions and immigrants» rights.

Lum grew up the child of immigrant sweatshop workers and menial laborers in Vancouver, and the couches reflect the fliers for rental furniture he would collect as a child, imagining leisure and luxury in the form of overstuffed softness.

It takes as evidence the few available installation photographs, the title and exhibition brochure composed by Szeemann, reports of the carefully curated audience that attended the show's opening reception, the contemporaneous relationship between Western European capitalism and Soviet socialism, and Switzerland's attitude toward immigrant workers.

The striking video installation of milky windows depicts the shadows of immigrant workers as they take on...

Immigration reform, which once garnered bipartisanship support in the Senate a few years ago, has wilted as American - born workers battle lower - paid immigrants for vanishing low - wage jobs.

This work includes applications for permanent residence in business, immigrant categories, applications for skilled workers under federal and provincially based immigration programs, applications for temporary workers under the immigration regulations pursuant to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, as well as applications for Canadian citizenship.