New AFL-CIO Online: En Espanol

[Omaha Steve]

FULL story: http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/08/26/new-afl-cio-online-en-espanol/

New AFL-CIO Online: En Espanol

More than 18 million Latinos live in the United States, and many work for low wages and often are exploited by unscrupulous employers. In fact, a new Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that among immigrant Latino workers, the job death toll increased to 625 in 2005 from 596 in 2004.

Now, at the AFL-CIO’s new Spanish-language website, Latinos and other Spanish-speaking workers can learn about health and safety on the job, their rights at work, immigration and political action.

Link to En Espanol directly from the AFL-CIO website, www.aflcio.org.

The site also features the latest news of interest to Latino workers, such as the AFL-CIO’s new partnership with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). The agreement paves the way for AFL-CIO central labor councils and state federations and NDLON’s worker centers to cooperate on issues ranging from workplace rights to immigration reform to health and safety and other job-related concerns.

[Sherman A1]

1. One suspects that those working for low wages and

exploited by unscrupulous employers may indeed not have internet access, no matter the language.

[Omaha Steve]

2. That is part of why the new labor station in Spanish is so HUGE!

http://www.laborradio.org/node/4005



Oregon's Farmworker Union starts radio station - 08/22/2006

By Jacob Fenston
Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United, or

P-CUN, will use the volunteer-run station to organize its members in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Ramón Ramírez is President of P-CUN:
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“We always knew that the most effective means to communicate your message to the community was through the radio. Especially the Latino community. So we have always used the radio as a means of providing information, in mobilizing people. When we had community meetings or forums, or mobilizations, we always used the radio to do that.” Ramírez says with its own station, the Union won’t have to buy time on commercial radio. Programming will be produced by community members, and broadcast in Spanish and several indigenous languages. K-P-C-N went on the air at five P-M on Sunday.

For Workers’ Independent News, I’m Jacob Fenston.

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[Sherman A1]

4. Well that certainly is entertaining,

too bad it's just a tad WRONG!

[cyberpj]

5. That's why we're seeing this - and should expect a lot more of it;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2474087

[columbusdem]

6. ¡Olé!