Your client is in Mexico. We can help. Transnational access to justice for migrants through litigation support services. CDM assists US advocates in complying with discovery requirements when their clients have returned to Mexico. CDM can track down clients to answer interrogatories and appear at depositions. Managing the discovery process transnationally can be difficult both…
CDM Outreach Coordinator Lilián López recently celebrated her one-year anniversary with CDM. Since Lilián joined CDM in November 2010, she has developed the leadership capacity of members of the Comité de Defensa del Migrante (Migrant Defense Committee). The Comité is comprised of more than 40 migrants, ex-migrants, and their family members. The Comité members are…
CDM and migrant worker allies participated in two major lawsuits brought against the Department of Labor’s prevailing wage rule by H-2B employers in seafood, construction, landscaping, horse training, hotels, carnivals and fairs, and forestry. In Maryland, the rule would have raised local and H-2B landscaping workers’ wages from $9.12/hour to $12.80/hour. The industry successfully pressured…
“Guestworkers need the government on their side. Every time that the men and women from Mexico go to work in the U.S., they leave their families behind in search of a better future. At these jobs in the U.S., many of them give so much more — their efforts, their health, and their lives. It…
Since mid-September, US Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) has pushed the US Department of Labor to delay the implementation of a new prevailing wage rate rule, which would raise the hourly wages of H-2B guestworkers. Under Mikulski’s pressure and an industry lawsuit, the DOL delayed the implementation of the new regulations until November 30, 2011. The…
NAALC Supplement 2011 (English)
Suplemento al ACLAN 2011 (español)
NAALC petition 2011 (English)