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The Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center (CIWC)
was established in March 2005 to help mobilize,
educate and organize low wage and immigrant workers. These efforts are designed to give low-income workers from all walks of life the opportunity to creatively challenge the power relationships with their employers and improve their working terms and conditions. >more
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El Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center (CIWC) se estableció en marzo de 2005 para ayudar a movilizar, educar y organizar los trabajadores con bajos salarios y los trabajadores inmigrantes. Estos esfuerzos están diseñados para darle a los trabajadores de bajos ingresos la oportunidad de lidiar creativamente con las relaciones de sus empleadores y mejorar sus condiciones de trabajo. >mas
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Como en muchas ciudades alrededor de la nación, las personas inmigrante de bajo-sueldo que trabaja han llegado a ser una parte esencial de la economía de Cincinnati, haciendo una contribución esencial a negocios, trayendo los beneficios a consumidores, y sosteniendo la tradición norteamericana de la ética del trabajo. Es vergonzosamente saber que es común para muchos hombres y mujeres inmigrante no ser pagado por el trabajo honesto que ellos/as realizan. Hay algunos empleadores poco escrupulosos que se aprovechan de la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores inmigrante pagando les rutinariamente menos que prometido o no pagando nada al trabajador. El problema no es que los trabajadores no tienen ningun derecho aplicable para ser pagado apropiadamente. Bajo nuestro sistema legal, ellos tienen el derecho de ser pagado —a pesar de su estatus de la ciudadanía o la inmigración. >mas
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There are numerous labor halls in the City of Cincinnati
that contract with local businesses to provide unskilled,
manual labor on both a short-term and a long- term basis. Due to the low wages and the usually arduous and
undesirable nature of the work offered, these agencies
rely on the employment of low-income and often home-
less individuals. For a worker lacking a permanent address, identification, and/or marketable job skills, day labor is the only immediate option for fiscal survival. It is estimated that over 60% of homeless individuals in Cincinnati work, yet still remain without enough income to obtain permanent housing. >more
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CIWC's May / June 2010 newsletter
English / Español
In this issue:
- Victories
- Did You Know?
- Members Travel to Houston & Detroit
- Boycott Arizonia
- Events
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Our goal is to develop a dialogue among workers that encourages them to know their legal workplace rights; consider worker justice beyond statutory safeguards; and recognize solidarity and collective action as
desirable paths for achieving just outcomes to specific workplace grievances. >more
Nuestro objetivo es de desarrollar un diálogo entre trabajadores que los motiva a saber sus derechos legales en el lugar de trabajo; considere la justicia de trabajador más allá de las medidas de protección reglamentarias; y reconoce la solidaridad y la acción colectiva que puede lograr justo resultados al lugar de trabajo específico Quejas. >mas |
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Don Sherman, Exectutive Director is interviewed
Check back for details about the interview which will air on NPR's Latino USA program. We'll post the details. Note: You will ahve to access this online as WVXU does not carry the program Latino USA. Humm....
Senate Bill 238 passed in the Senate 21-12
Undocumented workers would be banned from receiving state workers’-compensation payments if injured on the job, under legislation OK’d by the state Senate on Thursday. Senate Bill 238, sponsored by Sen. Bill Seitz, a Republican from Cincinnati, passed on a party-line vote of 21-12 and heads to the Ohio House for further consideration.
State law also does not require the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to check whether injured workers are legally living and working in the United States. Under Seitz’s bill, the bureau would be required to check documentation of workers before issuing benefit payments. The legislation also would prohibit employers from attempting to have undocumented workers covered under the state’s workers’-compensation law.
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