Join us in combating fraud in the recruitment of migrant workers! The lack of transparency and accountability in the international recruitment process fuels the business of fake jobs: scammers all over Mexico fabricate nonexistent U.S. job offers to defraud people who are seeking employment. In recent years, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM)…
Celebremos una gran victoria: el Representante de Comercio de los Estados Unidos anunció que el acuerdo preliminar para un nuevo acuerdo comercial alcanzado por los Estados Unidos y México asegurará que las y los trabajadores migrantes estén protegidos por las leyes laborales, transfiera las obligaciones laborales de un acuerdo colateral al núcleo del acuerdo y…
El CDM, junto con nueve organizaciones aliadas, ha presentado un amicus brief apoyando un desafío a la exclusión de los trabajadores agrícolas de la ley laboral de Nueva York. El trabajador agrícola Crispin Hernández, el Centro de Trabajadores del Centro de Nueva York y el Centro de Trabajadores de Nueva York demandaron al estado en 2016,…
CDM, joined by nine allied organizations, has filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting a challenge to agricultural workers’ exclusion from New York’s labor law. Farmworker Crispin Hernandez, the Workers’ Center of Central New York, and the Worker Justice Center of New York sued the state in 2016, arguing that this exclusion violates the state Constitution, which grants employees the fundamental right to…
Today, we celebrate a big win: the U.S. Trade Representative announced that the preliminary agreement for a new trade deal reached by the United States and Mexico will ensure migrant workers are protected under labor laws, bring labor obligations from a side accord into the core of the agreement, and make labor obligations fully enforceable. Since…
Every year, tens of thousands of internationally recruited au pairs come to the United States with the promise of a cultural exchange under the J-1 visa program. Instead, many encounter wage theft, discrimination and exploitation. “Shortchanged: The Big Business Behind the Low Wage J-1 Au Pair Program“ debunks the myth that the poorly regulated au pair…
En esta temporada de cosecha, acompaña al CDM a participar en Cien Cenas, nuestra campaña anual para crear conciencia sobre y recaudar fondos para apoyar los derechos de las y los trabajadores migrantes. Este año, honraremos s los cientos de miles de hombres y mujeres que trabajan en las industrias de comida y servicios de alimentos, desde…
This harvest season, join CDM for our annual Cien Cenas — One Hundred Dinners — campaign to raise crucial funding and awareness for migrant workers’ rights. This year, we’ll be honoring the hundreds of thousands of men and women working in food and food service industries, from farms and factories to restaurants and resorts, while raising funds to…
Trump’s withdrawal from the UN negotiations on migration is disappointing, but not surprising given the Administration’s promotion of policies that undermine the human rights of migrant people and expand the fundamentally flawed temporary labor migration programs without strengthening worker protections. As one of the few civil society representatives at the UN global conference on migration,…
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