Steve Angeles Filipino workers gathered outside of a nursing services company, demanding backwages. The California Labor Commissioner’s office has issued a citation on Angel Connection Inc and the J Jireh Group. It said those related companies had misclassified their workers, mostly Filipino caregivers, as independent contractors in an effort to avoid paying required wages, workers compensation…
Lorena Garibay Evelin Alfaro has worked as a domestic worker in San Francisco for about 12 years, providing for her family doing a job that requires a great deal of physical labor. But when Alfaro fell ill, as humans often do, she found herself in the same position that other domestic workers find themselves in: having…
Eleni Balakrishnan When Maria Aguilar landed in San Francisco in her late 20s, she was practically a different woman. She had left behind two young children in Guatemala, spoke no English, and knew no one. She found work cleaning houses, and started sending money home. “At first, it was very hard for me. I felt…
Justin Ebrahemi Activists and ecofeminists have discussed the parallels between the violence of women, working class migrant communities and nature for decades. Humankind’s harmful practices against nature are not unlike those perpetrated by capitalism against the laborers who work the land, advocates say. The crossroads between land and laborers might be reaching a watershed moment…