David Bacon - In These Times

David Bacon is a writer, photographer and former union organizer. He is the author of The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (2013), Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (2008), Communities Without Borders (2006), and The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the US/Mexico Border (2004). His website is at dbacon.igc.org.

Hundreds of Fruit Packing Workers Are On Strike

Don’t Punish the Dreamers—Punish the Corporations Driving Forced Migration

40,000 AT&T Workers Begin 3-Day Strike

Punishing Employers Who Hire Undocumented Immigrants Isn’t the Answer—Solidarity Is

Revolt of the ‘Chapulines’: After Strike, Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers Vote To Unionize

Undocumented Youth Are Here Through No Fault of Their Own. But It’s Not Their Parents’ Fault, Either

Using the phrase "no fault of their own" in discussing undocumented young people does not encourage us to look at the roots of the poverty and violence their families experience.

The Long, Strange Tale of a California Farm’s Attempts To Break Its Workers’ Union

California Court Ruling Could Make It Nearly Impossible for Farmworkers To Win Union Contracts

Panama’s Dockworkers Fight Poverty Wages—With Support From American Unionists

An Oil Worker & a Union Staffer Explain Why 1,000s of Oil Workers Across the Country Are On Strike

Immigrant Recycling Workers Win Strike, Union Drive in East Bay

Debunking 8 Myths About Why Central American Children Are Migrating

'Lax enforcement' is not the culprit—U.S. trade and immigration policies are.

What Cesar Chavez Missed

The new film doesn't capture the diversity of the farmworkers' movement.

Giving Up on Congress, Immigrant Workers Stage Wave of Protests

All Over the World, Migrants Demand the Right to Stay at Home

A global consensus is emerging on immigration policy--and the U.S. isn't heeding it.

Fighting To Stay Home

Violently evicted by their government and unwelcome in the U.S., Mexican mining unionists have nowhere to go.

The Fast Against the Firings

For Unionists, Iraq’s Oil War Rages On

The leader of Iraq’s oil union is being threatened with prison--again.

RIP Leo Robinson, Soul of the Longshore

The Walmart Black Friday Protests

A photo essay on the ground outside the mega-retailer's store in Richmond, California.

Mexico’s Labor Law Reform Sparks Massive Protests

A plan to gut labor protections has spurred unrest in Mexico’s streets.

Workers Try to Organize Airport Subway, Get Fired

Mexico’s Cananea Strikers: Fighting for the Right to a Union

Seattle Port Strike Challenges ‘Independent Contractor’ Lie

Truck drivers in the Puget Sound shut down ports for two weeks—and begin to shift the balance of power.

Domestic Workers and Their Children March for Rights in Calif.

Fighting the Firings

After years of 'silent raids' and federal workplace audits, unions and community allies are going on the offensive.

Will Public Workers and Immigrants March Together on May Day?

A Labor Law Bosses Would Love

Backed by industrialists, Mexican politicians are on the verge of erasing most workers' rights.

Protesters in San Francisco and Beyond Declare: ‘We Are One’ (SLIDESHOW)

Cesar Chavez, and the State of the Farm Workers Movement

Foundry Workers Strike to Save Their Healthcare

Fired for the Crime of Working

Not much has changed for undocumented workers since Obama took office.

Utah’s New Immigration Bills: A Blast From the Past

The state laws have been called "the nation's most liberal," but they're not much different from Cold War-era deportation policies.

Divide and Deport: On Immigration, Thom Hartmann and Lou Dobbs Have Much in Common

SLIDESHOW: In Oakland, Hunger Comprises All Races

An American Garment Worker Asks, ‘Where’s the Freedom?’

El Valiente Chicano

Can Labor Get Out of This Mess? (Part Two)

Can Labor Get Out of This Mess? (Part One)

The Story of an Eviction

Will Unions Defend Undocumented Members?

The Midwest Union Rollback

Newly elected Republican governors nix public workers' collective bargaining rights

San Francisco hotel workers triumph with help from city-by-city support

Grocery Workers Go to War Over Healthcare

Unions around the world oppose the drive for war

No Quiero Taco Bell!

David Bacon interviews Lucas Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.

California teachers are leading a backlash against high-stakes exams.

The Charleston Five

South Carolina declares war on unions

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