Lena I. Jackson With the U.S. economy in shambles due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Latina workers have suffered the worst job losses, with 19 percent reporting being unemployed in May. Latinx Americans are also among the groups most likely to contract COVID-19 — and to die from it. We spoke to several Latina women,…
Los Angeles Times, By Soudi Jimenez En medio de la pandemia, las organizaciones pro-inmigrantes y trabajadoras del hogar celebraron de forma virtual el voto a favor que obtuvo la ley SB-1257, en la Comisión de Relaciones Industriales y Laborales del Senado de California, en una larga lucha que todavía no termina. “Estaba llorando de alegría…
The Nation, by Sasha Abramsky “Immigrant workers give life, give a pulse, to our economy. We need to be taken into account.” “I don’t have work right now. There is no work. I’ve been looking, but there’s no work out there,” says Ana, a 53-year-old garment worker in Los Angeles, who migrated from Mexico City just…
Tavleen Tarrant Terry Villasenor lost her job as a caregiver in California recently amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Her husband also lost his job as a maintenance worker at a building in downtown Los Angeles around the same time. Villasenor, a Filipino human trafficking survivor and worker leader at LA’s Pilipino Workers Center — which…