Overview
Immigrant workers significantly contribute to the US economy but are often concentrated in low-wage jobs and face legal and accreditation barriers to fully utilizing their skills and education. Data and research on immigrant workers can inform efforts to strengthen overall US labor conditions, help expand access to employment opportunities for these workers, and improve alignment between the workforce needs of the US economy and immigrants’ skillsets. Equally important is understanding employers’ key role in creating inclusive workplaces that maximize immigrant workers’ potential within the US labor market.
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Worker voice, representation, and power, Immigrant workers, Sectoral bargaining
December 12, 2023
Video
WorkRise Shorts: Economic Security for Low-Wage Immigrant Manicurists with Lisa Fu
California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative executive director Lisa Fu discusses her WorkRise-funded research that examines two specific approaches to elevate the industry—high-road training partnerships and sectoral bargaining—and offers insight into how unions, community partners, workers, and owners can use these strategies to move forward.
December 12, 2023
Employer practices, Immigrant workers
August 16, 2023
Research Summary
Agricultural Worker Shortage to Worsen without Wage Increases
Research finds that workers from Mexico are leaving farm work and are less inclined to participate in US agricultural work unless inflation-adjusted wages rise significantly, which in turn creates incentives for US farm employers to increase wages while seeking labor-saving technological solutions.
August 16, 2023
Worker voice, representation, and power, Immigrant workers
March 03, 2021
Changemaker Q&A
Supporting a Workforce That Makes All Other Work Possible: A Q&A with Palak Shah
National Domestic Workers Alliance's social innovation director shares key insights on the domestic care workforce and the solutions we need to support them.
March 03, 2021
Latest Content
Worker voice, representation, and power, Immigrant workers, Sectoral bargaining
December 12, 2023
Video
WorkRise Shorts: Economic Security for Low-Wage Immigrant Manicurists with Lisa Fu
California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative executive director Lisa Fu discusses her WorkRise-funded research that examines two specific approaches to elevate the industry—high-road training partnerships and sectoral bargaining—and offers insight into how unions, community partners, workers, and owners can use these strategies to move forward.
December 12, 2023
Employer practices, Immigrant workers
August 16, 2023
Research Summary
Agricultural Worker Shortage to Worsen without Wage Increases
Research finds that workers from Mexico are leaving farm work and are less inclined to participate in US agricultural work unless inflation-adjusted wages rise significantly, which in turn creates incentives for US farm employers to increase wages while seeking labor-saving technological solutions.
Economic context, Immigrant workers
May 17, 2023
Research Summary
Amid a Collapsing Labor Market, Pandemic Policy Response Reduced Poverty and Inequality
Research indicates that the robust economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic and historically fast employment recovery resulted in reduced poverty and inequality even amid unprecedented pandemic-induced labor market dislocations, according to a recent working paper from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Worker voice, representation, and power, Immigrant workers
Executive Summary
March 13, 2023
Nailing New Labor Models: Exploring Sectoral Bargaining and High-Road Training Partnerships in the Nail Salon Sector
This report from the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative and the UCLA Labor Center explores how partnerships and sectoral boards can build a sustainable and equitable nail salon industry, focusing on two approaches from other sectors. High-road training partnerships and sectoral bargaining approaches can be adapted for nail salons but require distinct interventions and capacities for member participation.
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