This is how it’s done! Oregon’s labor agency is sending a clear message: immigration-related threats won’t be tolerated. A great example of how state and local agencies can use comms to protect immigrant workers:

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Last year, Missouri voters passed a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage and guarantee paid sick leave. This week, the governor signed a bill to undo these wins. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Huge respect to Scott Moss and the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics at Colorado Labor for standing firm in the face of ICE pressure and political interference. Their integrity and commitment to immigrant workers’ rights set a national example.

Wage theft, already a big problem, is poised to worsen under the reduction of investigators at the U.S. Dept. of Labor, finds a study coauthored by @ipratnu.bsky.social @polisciatnu.bsky.social prof Dan Galvin for the Workplace Justice Lab@Northwestern and @Rutgers.
www.yahoo.com/news/rutgers...

Rounding up immigrant workers is not only wrong, it will do nothing to fix our broken labor markets or help US workers or consumers.
What will? Raising wages, improving working conditions and enforcing labor laws.
Our new study: smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...

1/ Want to help US workers? Enforce labor law, not deportation orders. Undocumented immigrants are not the problem. The problem is the govt’s inadequate response to structural shifts in the economy that undermine worker power. NEW REPORT: smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...

1/ The Trump administration is disappearing people. Using an obscure wartime law, ICE is deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s mega-prison—one of the world’s most notorious human rights hellholes—with little proof beyond tattoos. t.co/yKoiNQO7RJ

Thanks to massive wage theft, 40,000 Nevada workers are being underpaid an average of $3,132 a year. And the rate is much higher in occupations dominated by women, especially domestic and service industry jobs.
Read our new study with Northwestern: smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...

Great day at Arriba Las Vegas highlighting new report for International Women's Day with @aijenpoo.bsky.social Domestic workers in Nevada 5x more likely to be paid below the minimum wage than the average worker.
. smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...

As I note in this @nytimes piece, the reason US citizens don’t do many jobs filled by immigrants (farming, elder care, etc) isn’t just $. These jobs are low-status & high-exploitation unless workers organize unions...and worker centers!
 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/b...

Who Will Clean Up After California's Tragic Fires? You can bet undocumented workers will be a big part of the workforce just as they were after Katrina and as they have been in climate emergencies ever since. #RaiseEmploymentVisas