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Bacon: Immigration Reform: We Need a Better Alternative

Znet Article, March, 23 2010 David Bacon
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Oakland, California - Sens. Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham announced Thursday their plan for immigration reform. Unfortunately, it is a retread, recycling the same bad ideas that led to the defeat of reform efforts over the last five years. In...

Bacon: The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement

Znet Article, December, 16 2009 David Bacon
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Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She's 14. For six years she's gone to practice instead of birthday parties, giving up the friendships most teenagers live for. Then two months ago...

Bacon: The Human Face of Budget Cuts

Znet Article, December, 06 2009 David Bacon
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Cesar Cota was the first in his family to attend college. "Now it's hard to achieve my dream," he says, "because the state put higher fees on us, and cut services and classes." Cota, a student at Los Angeles City College, was encouraged by the int...

Bacon: Should We Defend Undocumented Workers?

Znet Article, November, 24 2009 David Bacon
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One winter morning in 1996, Border Patrol agents charged into a Los Angeles street-corner clinic where 40 day laborers had lined up to be tested for AIDS. One worker, Omar Sierra, had just taken his seat, and a nurse had inserted the needle for dr...

Bacon: A Factory Like a City

Znet Article, September, 16 2009 David Bacon
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Last month, Toyota announced it would close the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, after General Motors announced it was withdrawing from the partnership under which the plant has operated for over two decade...

Bacon: It's Time to be Audacious

Znet Article, September, 04 2009 David Bacon
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A talk given at Socialism 2009...

Bacon: Can Labor Get Out of This Mess?

Znet Article, August, 18 2009 David Bacon
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For anyone who loves the labor movement, it's not unreasonable today to ask whether we've lost our way. California's huge healthcare local is in trusteeship, its leading organizing drive in a shambles. SEIU's international is at war with its own m...

Bacon: US Courts - Enemies of Education?

Znet Article, May, 08 2009 David Bacon
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Is there a "constitutional right to education"?

Bacon: Why Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act

Znet Article, April, 16 2009 David Bacon
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Today, median weekly pay for union members is $886, compared to $691 for nonunion workers. Moving cargo on the Oakland waterfront pays three times what stocking shelves does at Wal-Mart, because longshore workers have had a union contract since 19...

Bacon: Why Immigrant Workers Will Fill the Streets This May Day

Znet Article, March, 28 2009 David Bacon
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In a little over a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city after city, town after town, across the US. This year these May Day marches of immigrant workers will make an important demand on the O...

Bacon: Why Labor Law Doesn't Work for Workers

Znet Article, March, 12 2009 David Bacon
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Lancaster, California - After months of a media war supporting and condemning it, the Employee Free Choice Act was finally introduced into Congress again this week. The bill has been debated before, but with a larger Democratic majority, its chanc...

Bacon: Labor Needs a Radical Vision

Znet Article, February, 20 2009 David Bacon
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During the Cold War, many people with a radical vision of the world were driven out of our labor movement. Today, as unions search for answers about how to begin growing again and regain the power workers need to defend themselves, the question of...

Bacon: Unions Need Unity

Znet Article, January, 15 2009 David Bacon
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Twelve unions met in Washington, DC, last week and announced they're considering rejoining the two labor federations, the American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Change to Win (CTW), which split apart five y...

Bacon: Unions Come to Smithfield

Znet Article, December, 21 2008 David Bacon
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On Dec. 11, Smithfield workers were not just celebrating a vote count. They'd just defeated one of the longest, most bitter anti-union campaigns in modern U.S. labor history.

Bacon: "Somebody Has to Respond"

Znet Article, December, 12 2008 David Bacon
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When the day finally comes that Raul Flores loses his job, he will face a bitter search for another one. "I've got a family to support, so I've got to do whatever it takes," he says. "It's going to be hard. The economic situation is not good, but ...

Bacon: Stop The Raids In The First 100 Days

Znet Article, October, 28 2008 David Bacon
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The first of the 388 workers arrested in the immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, were deported in mid-October, having spent five months in federal prison. Their crime? Giving a bad Social Security number to...

Bacon: Original Workers Overcome Divisions After Mississippi Raid

Znet Article, September, 09 2008 David Bacon
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In the recent raid of the Howard Industries electrical plant in Laurel, Mississippi, 481 workers have been detained for almost two weeks in Jena, Louisiana. Neither they nor their attorneys know when they will be formally charged, deported or rele...

Bacon: Did a Mississippi Raid Protect Rightwing Politicians?

Znet Article, September, 01 2008 David Bacon
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On August 25, immigration agents swooped down on Howard Industries, a Mississippi electrical equipment factory, taking 481 workers to a privately-run detention center in Jena, Louisiana. A hundred and six women were also arrested at the plant, and...

Bacon: How Do You Say Justice in Mixteco?

Znet Article, June, 11 2008 David Bacon
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Erasto Vasquez was surprised to see a forklift appear one morning outside his trailer near the corner of East and Springfield, two small rural roads deep in the grapevines, ten miles southwest of Fresno. He and his neighbors pleaded with the drive...

Bacon: May Day: "We Are Workers, Not Criminals"

Znet Article, May, 02 2008 David Bacon
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In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd just come from work in a...

Bacon: In Mississippi, Work Is Now a Felony for Undocumented Immigrants

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 David Bacon
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On March 17, Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the US. Employer sanctions is a shorthand name for laws that prohibit employers from hiring immigrants who don't h...

Bacon: Black and Brown Together

Znet Article, March, 15 2008 David Bacon
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In Mississippi, African American leaders are the foremost champions of the state's growing Latino immigrant population. Some day soon, they hope, the new alliance will transform the state's politics.

Bacon: Right to Strike Imperiled in Cananea

Znet Article, January, 30 2008 David Bacon
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The Mexican city of Cananea, site of one of the world's largest copper mines, is moving toward a virtual state of siege after fighting swept through the streets between police and strikers more than a week ago. The attack on the Mexican miners' un...

Bacon: The political economy of migration

Znet Article, January, 13 2008 David Bacon
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In December 2005, Wisconsin Congressman James Sensenbrenner convinced his Republican colleagues (and to their shame, 35 Democrats) to pass one of the most repressive immigration proposals of the last hundred years. His bill, HR 4437, would have ma...