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Members of a union representing workers who clean New York City offices march in 2019. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

August 30, 2022

Amazon, Starbucks worker wins recall earlier period of union success – when Central American migrants also expanded US labor movement

Elizabeth Oglesby, University of Arizona

Often overlooked in the immigration debate are the contributions of migrants, such as how they helped organize workers in the 1990s.

Salvadoran immigrants were pivotal in the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles in 1990. It earned wage increases for custodial staff nationwide and inspired today’s $15 minimum wage campaign. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

August 30, 2022

How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement

Elizabeth Oglesby, University of Arizona

Central Americans who came to the US in the 1980s fleeing civil war drew on their background fighting for social justice back home to help unionize farmworkers, janitors and poultry packers in the US.

Immigration sting at Corso’s Flower and Garden Center in Castalia, Ohio, June 5, 2018. AP Photo/John Minchillo, File

June 18, 2018

US communities can suffer long‑term consequences after immigration raids

Elizabeth Oglesby, University of Arizona

Immigrant raids can cause long-term community trauma. The raids can also lead to new political alliances that reshape the meaning of community.

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