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The California Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to extend basic rights to an overlooked segment of the labor force: domestic workers, mostly immigrant women, who toil in private homes without the protection of most labor laws.
A resolution by the executive council said blanket amnesty would recognize a growing segment of the labor force vulnerable to exploitation.
That would be a step in the right direction, not only in raising the living standards of a growing segment of the labor force, but in re-establishing Washington's leadership, long abandoned, in setting and promoting fair wages.
The New Jersey workers, working with nonprofit groups here and in half a dozen other states, are drafting a voluntary code of conduct for temp agencies that they say will improve job conditions for the soaring population of temporary workers -- a segment of the labor force that has tripled nationwide in 10 years.
The most active segment of the labor force (percentage of the population between age 14 and 64) and industrialization exert significant positive effects on CO2 emissions in middle income countries while the impact of urbanization, population and trade openness appears generally insignificant across income groups.
Yet our workforce will remain weakened as long as a large segment of the labor market is unprotected.
Hector Sanchez, executive director of LCLAA sees an overhaul of our immigration system as a way to offer some protection to this often overlooked segment of our labor force.
This report highlights an important fact often overlooked by many in our society: Latinas workers are among the most exploited segment of our labor force; both documented and undocumented face tremendous hardships working in our country.
The Chamber of Commerce, Microsoft, Dow Chemical, General Electric, Citigroup, and others signed on in support, and there was no organized lobbying force fighting the agreements except a segment of the labor union movement and human rights and environmental groups (who are outmatched in resources and lobbying firepower by those big corporate interests).
