Sentences with phrase «of immigrant labor»

Bowers creates photo - realist drawings of isolated individuals who marched on behalf of immigrant labor reform on International Workers» Day in 2011 and were in TransLatina Coalition protests in 2016.

Sol Aramendi weaves video narratives of immigrant labor into an installation of corn, lavender, and old LPs that somehow remind him of coins.

The study also concluded that the inclusion of immigrant labor meant prices for computer products were 1.9 % to 2.4 % lower.

Not exact matches

Nearly 10 % of the workforce — some 1.4 million people — are immigrants, many of whom are undocumented, according to a 2010 estimate from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But a crackdown would directly affect an array of industries that historically have relied on the labor pool of an estimated 8.1 million undocumented immigrants who work (or look for work) in the U.S. Trump has also threatened to ban Muslim immigration, create a registry of Muslims in the country, surveil mosques, and introduce «extreme vetting» of visa applicants» religious beliefs.

Trump has focused on an «America first» agenda when it comes to skilled labor and has proposed «extreme vetting» of immigrants from countries that the president says are known for terrorism.

«He had been a huge climate leader, huge labor champion, a real nationwide leader in terms of immigrants» rights and we just felt like, in addition to everything else, we felt he wasn't getting a fair shot by the establishment,» Steyer said.

Just endless rounds of downsizing, mergers creating economies of scale and less jobs, globalization, importing workers who depress wages due to country of origin standards, or because they don't have full labor rights or any labor rights (all employer sponsored based immigrants).

-- 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 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 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 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.

The immigration bill the Democrats nearly passed dramatically increased the number of temporary status residents and pliable labor immigrants, while cutting family based immigration.

Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).

[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.

That may not sound particularly controversial, but some immigration and labor activists are calling out FWD.us for favoring a specific type of immigrant: White - collar tech workers whom tech world titans could pay less than their American colleagues.

The word means literally a flowing - in — an inflow of capital, of skilled immigrants and other labor, of technology, and of foreign support.

Today was May Day, a historic celebration of workers and immigrant workers, and labor unions, immigrant rights groups, and allies came together to celebrate years and follow years of tradition.

For example: Is our economy ruined because of immigrants coming to our country, or is it ruined because the companies who are supposed to be boosting our economy with new jobs are instead giving those jobs to cheaper labor that can be exploited for wages far less than minimum?

Last week's «Day Without Immigrants» campaign was a startling reminder of the extent to which immigrant labor help drives the American economy.

But giving your mom a speech about how you are morally superior to her for not eating animals is false logic, considering the slave labor used to produce your fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other delicious animal - free ingredients (coffee, sugar, bananas, mangos, berries, peaches, and cashews are just a few examples of foods imported from the third world where workers are severely mistreated and underpaid, or farmed by underpaid Mexican immigrants in the US).

Citing Trump and his, as Sen. Jose Peralta put it, «castigating» of immigrants, advocates have resumed pushing for a long - stalled Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act, an omnibus bill that would give farmworkers a number of labor protectLabor Practices Act, an omnibus bill that would give farmworkers a number of labor protectlabor protections.

In general, states try to restrict the movement of foreign labor because immigrants are seen as «taking jobs» from locals.

At 11 a.m., Rep. Grace Meng and labor unions holds a press conference for worker and immigrant rights, Washington Square Park, in front of the Arch, Manhattan.

While Lipton and activist organizations — like Make the Road Action, a leading immigrants» rights group that endorsed Nixon on Friday — were careful to blame the crack - up on Cuomo, at least one labor leader offered a more scathing indictment of the WFP.

Demonstrators, led by filmmaker Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro and Sally Field, crowded in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower to speak about a variety of issues including health care, labor rights, climate change and protection for immigrants, lesbians and gays.

At 11 a.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein, Sen. Diane Savino, Assemblyman Francisco Moya, NYC Councilman Ritchie Torres and community, immigrant rights and labor advocates discuss the release of a report about an undercover investigation of local employment agencies; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

A future shortage of labor in Europe due to a declining and aging population means that the EU will need an influx of immigrants to keep the workforce stable as well as to finance living standards and rising costs for healthcare.

Too much hangs in the balance: the future of immigrant families; a woman's right to choose; affordable health care; labor protections; our environment; and so much more.

This new report finds that unauthorized immigrants are responsible for $ 40 billion, or three percent, of New York's economic output, and make up five percent of the labor force.

You claim in the comments that this added labor would not solve Japan's problems permanently, since immigrants would adopt the birth rates of ethnic Japanese.

This entire answer should of course not come as a surprise: the primary thing immigrants offer are labor supply, and a lack of immigration has thus one primary drawback: lack of labor.

When gaining the endorsement of the labor - backed Working Families Party, he pledged to enact the public financing of political campaigns statewide, the DREAM Act for undocumented immigrants, allow local governments to raise the state's minimum wage and accelerate the timetable for increasing the wage itself.

The details of state inspections of nail salons are perhaps most revealing about just how challenging it is to regulate a largely immigrant - run industry in which almost everything is done off the books and employers are often unfamiliar with the intricacies of state labor laws.

Espaillat, the first formerly undocumented immigrant elected to the House, assailed several other Trump's proposed appointees: Breitbart News co-founder Stephen Bannon for chief political strategist; Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General; Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; fast food magnate Andrew Puzder as Secretary of Labor.

Organized labor, which once feared that increased immigration would drive down wages, now sees new immigrants as essential to the future of the trade union movement.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

After receiving an endorsement from what some consider New York's most powerful labor group, SEIU Local 1199, and and immigrants» rights group, the former secretary of state said this office would build on what President Barack Obama has done with immigration.

The labor union 32BJ SEIU on Monday criticized President Donald Trump's list of proposals in exchange for extending legal protections for children who arrived as undocumented immigrants in the United States, calling them a «betrayal of core American values.»

«As an immigrant, and longtime member of the labor movement, Marisol Alcantara is a candidate that UNITE HERE Local 100 trusts to fight for our members day in and day out,» said UNITE HERE Local 100 President Bill Granfield.

It is a tough immigration bill with a soft side that protects those who hire unauthorized immigrants «for the purpose of obtaining labor or other work to be performed exclusively or primarily at a single - family residence.»

The Let NY Vote coalition is made up of over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citzen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

The most recent nod came early Friday, when Make the Road Action — a grass - roots immigrant rights group that receives ample funding from labor — said it would back Ms. Nixon because of «her strong progressive platform and her commitment to passing and implementing the full protections and supports that our communities need and deserve.»

Organized by: the Center of Cultures, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, NYC Chapter and co-sponsored by: Queens Community House, Queens Pride House, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and Make the Road New York

The study shows that over a recent period of more than three years, the U.S. federal government approved about 91 percent of labor certification applications from Asian immigrants and 90 percent from Canadian immigrants, but just 67 percent of applications from Latin American immigrants.

With the labor market in the doldrums, America's technical supremacy under challenge from abroad, and the political issue of immigration reform heating up, many argue that immigrants have a special propensity for innovation and entrepreneurship that can help spark badly needed economic growth.

With unique access to a «hidden population» from one of America's largest Spanish - speaking immigrant destinations, a recent study finds that more than 30 % of undocumented migrant laborers in this area are victims of labor trafficking and 55 % are victims of other labor abuses.

That film is Dark Odyssey (l957), a labor of love by Bill Kyriakis, a child of Greek immigrants who grew up in the then heavily Greek area of New York's Chelsea district.

Related Reviews: New to Blu - ray: U Turn • The Gambler • A Most Violent Year • Big Eyes • Interstellar • Accidental Love Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson: The Master • There Will Be Blood Joaquin Phoenix: The Immigrant • Her • The Village • Ladder 49 Josh Brolin: Labor Day • No Country for Old Men • Men in Black 3 Owen Wilson: Bottle Rocket • Are You Here Benicio Del Toro: Traffic • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Martin Short: Father of the Bride & Father of the Bride Part II • The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause Reese Witherspoon: The Good Lie • Devil's Knot • How Do You Know Jena Malone: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Katherine Waterston: The Factory 1970s: American Hustle • Zodiac • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Highlights of the partnership include Kartemquin's first film, Home for Life, labor struggle film The Last Pullman Car, James's Grassroots Chicago, and seven - hour immigrant story The New Americans.

With the future contributions of these young citizens at stake, Immigrants Raising Citizens is a timely study with far - reaching implications for immigration policy, labor law enforcement, and the organization of family - oriented public programming.

David Card, «Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Effects of Higher Immigration», Journal of Labor Economics, 2001.

A number of studies have examined the effects of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of host communities, [3] and there have been several recent analyses of the effects of immigrants per se on the educational outcomes of incumbent students, though their conclusions have been mixed.