Worker Justice
Michigan Supreme Court Decision in MIRC v. Whitmer Threatens the Rights of All Michiganders
"This is a sad day for the law in Michigan. The Michigan Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling today was not on the merits of whether the state is legally obligated to…
Servicios Legales de Colorado demanda a una granja del sur de Colorado por interferir con el acceso de trabajadores agrícolas a servicios
Servicios Legales de Colorado (CLS) presentó hoy una demanda contra una granja ubicada en Center, Colorado, y contra su contratista de mano de obra agrícola, por obstruir de manera ilegal…
Enforcing Farm Workers’ Right to Visitors (Colorado Legal Services v. Southern Colorado Farms)
Colorado’s landmark 2021 Farm Worker Bill of Rights enshrined the right of agricultural workers to receive visitors at their housing, including employer-owned housing. This includes visitors like lawyers from Colorado…
Colorado Legal Services Sues Southern Colorado Farm for Interfering with Farm Workers’ Access to Services
Colorado Legal Services this week filed a lawsuit against a Center, CO farm and its farm labor contractor over illegal obstruction of CLS’s visits to workers staying at the farm’s…
Sentient Media: Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey
“Not only are those injuries not getting reported to OSHA, they are not being characterized as work-site injuries for purposes of worker’s compensation.”
Food Workers Deserve Better Than Diapers and Shewees
Industrial food production relies on people holding their bladders to the point of bursting or beyond. The industrial agriculture system turns animals into meat like this: workers stand on disassembly…
Challenging Civil Rights Rollbacks at EEOC (Cross v. EEOC)
Under the Trump Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has betrayed workers by stopping investigations into disparate-impact discrimination charges, illegally abandoning decades of civil rights precedent. Disparate impact refers…
Former Amazon Worker Challenges Trump Administration’s Attack on Disparate-Impact Discrimination Claims
Leah Cross, a former Amazon delivery driver, filed suit today against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over its decision to prohibit its employees from continuing to investigate claims like…
Detroit Free Press: Michigan Supreme Court hears case over workers’ compensation for undocumented immigrants
“When government officials act unconstitutionally, they can be held accountable,” said David Muraskin, an attorney with agricultural law firm FarmSTAND, representing MIRC in the case.