DETROIT—Ashim Roy was part of a factory takeover that led to workers running the factory for six years, and helped push legislation mandating that workers and company owners must jointly negotiate the conditions of a closure.
Emma Delgado is an immigrant domestic worker, among the thousands who suffer frequent wage theft, are forced to work with toxic chemicals and other exploitative conditions. They cannot form a union, but they have formed a nationwide alliance of hundreds and are fighting for a national Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, similar to one that passed this month in the New York legislature.
Saket Soni marched from the Gulf Coast to Washington D.C. with Indian guest workers who escaped from slavery-like conditions at a Mississippi shipyard. They held a month-long hunger strike demanding…
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