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May 2, 2014

Workers Around the World Protest on May Day 
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Workers around the world took to the streets Thursday to mark May Day,
with marches and rallies across Latin America, Europe and Asia. Here in
New York City, immigration attorney Reena Arora was among those who
gathered in Washington Square Park to demand rights for workers and
immigrants.

Reena Arora: "One of the biggest problems facing the immigrant community
is wide-scale wage theft. So we have a number of day laborers and
domestic workers and workers in all different industries who are not
paid their wages at all, who are just absolutely robbed of their
earnings, and there's no recourse for them because often their claims
are so small that no lawyers want to help them fight for their wages
back — and there are increasingly numbers of threats of
deportation and other ways to make them extremely vulnerable as your
workforce."

 

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