CDC Expands Partnership with Migrant Workers’ Rights Organization on COVID-19 Campaign

CDC Expands Partnership with Migrant Workers’ Rights Organization on COVID-19 Campaign Coordinated Outreach Campaign Aims to Prevent Infectious Diseases among Workers in Protein Processing Industries BALTIMORE, MD – Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM), a binational migrant rights organization based in the U.S. and Mexico, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…

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Announcing CDM’s Protein Processing Worker Project!

This Workers’ Memorial Day, in honor of workers who have been killed or injured on the job, we’re announcing CDM’s Protein Processing Worker Project. Through a cooperative agreement with the CDC, this project seeks to prevent infectious diseases among workers in protein (seafood, meat and poultry) processing industries in the Delmarva region. As part of…

Check out Maribel and Reyna’s op-ed in USA TODAY

Maribel and Reyna, two crawfish workers, were fired by their employer for seeking medical treatment after they became infected with COVID-19 at their workplace in Louisiana. With CDM’s support, they filed a whistleblower complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) arguing that their employer retaliated against them…

In a Time Like No Other, We Need You in this Fight

Migrant workers have spent much of 2020 sustaining the world’s food supply chain. In the midst of outbreaks, business and border closures and stay-at-home orders, workers have continued to be recruited abroad to perform essential jobs — picking strawberries in California and oranges in Florida and processing crab in Maryland and crawfish in Louisiana. Although…

REPORTE NUEVO: Abusos en la industria de mariscos en Maryland siguen amenazando a trabajadoras durante la pandemia de COVID-19

PARA PUBLICACIÓN INMEDIATA: 24 de septiembre, 2020 Contactar: María Perales (mariap@cdmigrante.org) Evy Peña (evy@cdmigrante.org)   BALTIMORE, MD — Hoy, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM), la Clínica de Justicia para Inmigrantes en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Americana y la Clínica de Legislación Federal en la Facultad de Derecho en Georgetown…

NEW REPORT: Abuses in Maryland’s Crab Picking Industry Continue to Threaten Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 24, 2020 Contact: María Perales (mariap@cdmigrante.org) Evy Peña (evy@cdmigrante.org)   BALTIMORE, MD– Today, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM), the American University Washington College of Law Immigrant Justice Clinic, and Georgetown University Law Center’s Federal Legislation Clinic have released, Breaking the Shell: How Maryland’s Migrant Crab Pickers Continue…