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Cross-border groups like the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras helped workers organize independent unions at Sony, Alcoa, Custom Trim, and Sara Lee plants along the Mexico-U.S.
Language barriers cause an estimated 25% of workplace accidents in industries with concentrated immigrant workforces, and they sabotage union campaigns at comparable rates.
In Malaysia, achieving official government recognition for a new trade union representing migrant workers takes between five and seven years, according to research from the Malaysian Trades Union Congress. The average guest worker visa in that country lasts two to three years.
Los Angeles now hosts dozens of worker cooperatives organized along lines of trade, geography, and cultural identity.
The AFL-CIO's executive council voted unanimously in February 2000 to abandon a position the federation had defended for over a century. For the first time, the largest labor body in the United States would publicly support amnesty for undocumented workers and oppose employer sanctions.
"After they fired me, my employer withheld my last pay. They said I owed them for sponsorship costs." That's Kathleen, a care worker whose story was documented by Citizens Advice in the UK.
