The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of migrant workers who have faced rampant wage theft by a major farm labor contractor, Lowry Farms, Inc. The guest workers planted sugarcane on farms throughout Louisiana and received pay well below what was required under...
On April 5, 2018, agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service along with law enforcement from the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Morristown Police Department executed the largest workplace immigration raid in nearly a decade at Southeastern Provision,...
A North Carolina state law guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.
North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups – including the ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» – sued to block implementation of the law on November 15, 2017 in federal...
The ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» today criticized Congress for blocking a new regulation that would protect U.S. workers by allowing the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to regulate the wages paid to foreign laborers recruited into the U.S. through the federal H-2B guestworker program.
The immigrant justice project, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½»), is a legal initiative that defends labor rights and civil rights in the Southeastern United States. It has extensive experience in this field, and has ample resources to use in confronting injustice.
The Immigrant Justice Project, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (ÈËÊÞÐÔ½»), is a legal initiative that defends labor rights and civil rights in the Southeastern United States. It has extensive experience in this field, and has ample resources to use in confronting injustice.