Sentences with phrase «immigrant women workers»

Temporary foreign workers and immigrant women workers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, violence and the resulting chronic stress.

She has been organizing immigrant women workers for more than two decades.

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If women, seniors and immigrants, collectively, were employed at their level of education, earning equal pay to men born in Canada, personal incomes would increase by $ 174 billion, or an equivalent of 1.6 million more workers.

That initiative provides funds to train unemployed workers not eligible for employment insurance and is aimed at aboriginals, immigrants, women, youth, older workers, people with disabilities and those with low literacy levels.

A «small army» of social workers and charitable groups managed their arrivals» from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society workers in their white enamel badges to the volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women (light blue silk armbands).

The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

If Cuomo delivers on his IOU, life will improve for low - wage workers, immigrants, women, grassroots political candidates and others.

The leftist groups will decry the deportation of immigrants, healthcare cuts, police brutality, hate crimes and encroachments on women's and workers» rights.

Workers, women, immigrants, people of color and environmentalists need their own party and that remains the Green Party,» Hawkins said in a statement.

«Phasing out the unfair tip credit would improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of struggling New Yorkers, many of them women, workers of color and immigrants.

IDC members prevented passage of vital legislation that would protect immigrants, women, LGBTQ New Yorkers, workers, the environment and civil rights.

Cuomo's national strategy also explains other high - profile actions, including his belated embrace of a «women's agenda,» his refusal to permit «fracking» for natural gas even after repeatedly promising to do so, his anti-gun Safe Act, his embrace of the teachers unions he had once sharply criticized, and his recent high - profile crackdown on Korean - owned nail salons in the city that, according to a deeply flawed report in the New York Times, were exploiting their immigrant workers, said the source.

Workers, women, immigrants, people of color and environmentalists need their own party and that remains the Green Party,» noted Hawkins, a Teamster from Syracuse.

«From women's rights to immigrant rights, to workers» rights, Bill Thompson is the right choice,» said Assemblymember Gabriela Rosa.

Marrin presents an exemplary, accessible overview of labor history in this detailed account of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 workers died — most of them immigrant women between the ages of 14 and 23.

His multifaceted practice of teaching, public address, and engaging with survivors of trauma — immigrants, homeless, factory workers, women in shelters, and most recently, veterans — results in work that can be collective, cinematic, agitprop, and even cathartic.

This fight against the oil lobby and the financial oligarchy needs to continue linking up with larger movements of workers, immigrants, Muslims, women, and others fighting attacks from Donald Trump and the billionaire class.»

students worked with The Woman's Fund of Miami - Dade County, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of local women and girls; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-profit.

This year's theme was RIGHTS FOR ALL — women workers, immigrant workers, union and non-union workers.

Service (s) include: defense of the rights of women and minorities, workers, students, immigrants, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people; promote civil liberties including the freedom of speech, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, and equal treatment under the law.

The audio of their Feb. 18 interview «More Than #MeToo is Needed to Protect Migrant Workers and Immigrant Women» (26 mins) is now available on the CBC website.

Our services assist new immigrants, seniors, farm workers, women and youth.

Many of the injured workers IWC assists are women, immigrants, and work in non-union or precarious employment situations.

As reported in a 2014 study on the health impacts of such work on racialized, immigrant women in the Greater Toronto Area, «temporary and on - call agency work seemed to be the new norm in both the private and non-profit health and social services agencies... Working precariously meant not just fewer hours and lower wages, but included the quality of work, the differential treatment being an agency worker; and the «invisible» and «unpaid» time and energy spent in - between and in getting from one job site to another...»

Speakers decried dangerous legislation that adversely affects low - income people, workers, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, people with disabilities, immigrants, and the environment.

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