Publications
United States Guest Worker Program Operates with Impunity in Sending Countries, Submitted by Global Workers Justice Alliance to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Migrants, May 12, 2007 New York, New York.
Cathleen Caron, Using Portable Justice to Achieve Additional Remedies for Trafficked Persons Alliance News, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Issue 27 (July 2007).
Cathleen Caron, Portable Justice, Migrant Workers, and the United States, 40 Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy 549 (January-February 2007).
Global Workers Comments on United Nations Secretary-General Report on Migration and Development June 2006.
Global Workers Require Global Justice: The Portability of Justice Challenge for Migrants in the USA Prepared for: The Committee on Migrant Workers Day of General Discussion October 2005.
Global Workers’ Cases
The following articles highlight cases Global Workers initiated or supports to varying degrees.
Adam Nossiter, “Workers Sue Gulf Coast Company that Imported Them”, New York Times, March 11, 2008.
Jessica Taloney, “Workers Protest Human Trafficking”, WKRG News, March 6, 2008.
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, “Guest Workers Fighting Back”, Time, March 14, 2007.
Steven Greenhouse, “Low Pay and Broken Promises Greet Guest Workers”, New York Times, February 28, 2007.
Nina Bernstein, “Suit to Charge That Nursery Mistreated Laborers”, New York Times, February 8, 2007.
Laura Parker, “Guest workers sue companies over pay”, USA Today, November 14, 2006.
Global Workers in the News
Karen Lee Ziner“OSHA has fined Lincoln company multiple times”, The Providence Journal, February 17, 2008.
Karen Lee Ziner“Injured Tree Worker Wins $30,000 Compensation Claim”, The Providence Journal, January 15, 2008.
Jane M. Von Bergen, “Foreign Seasonal Workers Score Local Victory”, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 11, 2008.
Paul Vitello, “From Stand in Long Island Slavery Case, a Snapshot of a Hidden U.S. Problem”, New York Times, November 30, 2007.
Karen Lee Ziner“Judge Rules for Injured Worker”, The Providence Journal, October 20, 2007.
Latina Magazine “Do Something”, March 26, 2007.
Leslie Pérez, “Transnational Workers Deserve Justice”, Prensa Libre (Guatemala) February 7, 2007. Spanish
Claudia Munaiz, Leslie Pérez, “Uncontrolled temporary work. Offers to work abroad, attractive options.” Prensa Libre (Guatemala), August 6, 2006. Spanish