By Community Alliance Staff The Coalición 1 de Mayo is organizing a march and rally on May 1 to celebrate International Workers’ Day and to demand an immigration reform. The Coalición will be [...] Continue Reading
Organized Labor
Happy Birthday, Dolores
On April 10, civil rights icon Dolores Huerta turns 93. She keeps her indomitable energy and passion for social justice, women’s rights and more. How is she going to celebrate? In Sacramento, she [...] Continue Reading
Abuso laboral: tibios e indiferentes
(Nota del Editor: Esta nota fue originalmente publicada en www.hispanicla.com) Llegué a los Estados Unidos cuando las marchas por la reforma migratoria llenaban las calles de las grandes ciudades [...] Continue Reading
The Growth of Low-Wage Jobs in California’s Central Valley
(Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Fresnoland.org, a nonprofit news organization.) As the central San Joaquin Valley sees a rise in warehousing and other low-wage jobs—some [...] Continue Reading
A Chapter in a People’s History of the San Joaquin Valley
On Oct. 4, 1933, 5,000 cotton workers in Corcoran voted to strike after growers lowered wages below those of the previous season. The strike began at the Tagus Ranch in Tulare County but soon spread [...] Continue Reading
Recordando a Fred Ross Jr., Organizador Social y Defensor de la Justicia Social
Fred Ross Jr. siempre quiso que lo conocieran simplemente como organizador. Empezó de joven con su trabajo organizativo en los campos de California al lado de César Chávez, y ha inspirado a [...] Continue Reading
Statement from the Local Central Labor Council
It is with immense disappointment and equal determination that we write this statement in the wake of the shocking conversations that were privately recorded inside of the Los Angeles Federation of [...] Continue Reading
Increased Investment in Healthcare Worker Retention
To fight for the health of my patients at Golden Valley Health Center, I, along with hundreds of community clinic workers united in SEIU, traveled to Sacramento to make sure that lawmakers heard [...] Continue Reading
Padilla under Scrutiny on Workforce Law
(Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Fresnoland, a nonprofit news organization.) Fresno farmworker and immigrant rights groups are calling on Senator Alex Padilla to vote “no” [...] Continue Reading
Increased Investment in Healthcare Worker Retention
To fight for the health of my patients at Golden Valley Health Center, I, along with hundreds of community clinic workers united in SEIU, traveled to Sacramento to make sure that lawmakers heard [...] Continue Reading
A March for Their Rights
A group of farmworkers marched 335 miles from the United Farm Workers’ (UFW) headquarters near Delano to the State Capitol in Sacramento. The three-week march was aimed at pressuring Governor Gavin [...] Continue Reading
Una Marcha Por Sus Derechos
Un grupo de jornaleros agrícolas marchó 335 millas desde la sede del Sindicato de Campesinos (UFW por sus siglas en inglés), cerca de Delano, hasta el Capitolio, en Sacramento. La marcha de tres [...] Continue Reading