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.
Labor
Hundreds of Fruit Packing Workers Are On Strike
David Bacon
Labor
Don’t Punish the Dreamers—Punish the Corporations Driving Forced Migration
David Bacon
Labor
40,000 AT&T Workers Begin 3-Day Strike
David Bacon
Labor
Punishing Employers Who Hire Undocumented Immigrants Isn’t the Answer—Solidarity Is
David Bacon
Labor
Revolt of the ‘Chapulines’: After Strike, Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers Vote To Unionize
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Feature
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.
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Labor
The Long, Strange Tale of a California Farm’s Attempts To Break Its Workers’ Union
David Bacon
Labor
California Court Ruling Could Make It Nearly Impossible for Farmworkers To Win Union Contracts
David Bacon
Labor
Panama’s Dockworkers Fight Poverty Wages—With Support From American Unionists
David Bacon
Labor
An Oil Worker & a Union Staffer Explain Why 1,000s of Oil Workers Across the Country Are On Strike
David Bacon
Labor
Immigrant Recycling Workers Win Strike, Union Drive in East Bay
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Feature
Debunking 8 Myths About Why Central American Children Are Migrating
'Lax enforcement' is not the culprit—U.S. trade and immigration policies are.
David Bacon
Dispatch
What Cesar Chavez Missed
The new film doesn't capture the diversity of the farmworkers' movement.
David Bacon
Labor
Giving Up on Congress, Immigrant Workers Stage Wave of Protests
David Bacon
Feature
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.
David Bacon
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Fighting To Stay Home
Violently evicted by their government and unwelcome in the U.S., Mexican mining unionists have nowhere to go.
David Bacon
The Fast Against the Firings
David Bacon
Feature
For Unionists, Iraq’s Oil War Rages On
The leader of Iraq’s oil union is being threatened with prison--again.
David Bacon
Labor
RIP Leo Robinson, Soul of the Longshore
David Bacon
Feature
The Walmart Black Friday Protests
A photo essay on the ground outside the mega-retailer's store in Richmond, California.
David Bacon
Feature
Mexico’s Labor Law Reform Sparks Massive Protests
A plan to gut labor protections has spurred unrest in Mexico’s streets.
David Bacon
Labor
Workers Try to Organize Airport Subway, Get Fired
David Bacon
Labor
Mexico’s Cananea Strikers: Fighting for the Right to a Union
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Feature
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.
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Labor
Domestic Workers and Their Children March for Rights in Calif.
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Feature
Fighting the Firings
After years of 'silent raids' and federal workplace audits, unions and community allies are going on the offensive.
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Labor
Will Public Workers and Immigrants March Together on May Day?
David Bacon
Feature
A Labor Law Bosses Would Love
Backed by industrialists, Mexican politicians are on the verge of erasing most workers' rights.
David Bacon
Labor
Protesters in San Francisco and Beyond Declare: ‘We Are One’ (SLIDESHOW)
David Bacon
Labor
Cesar Chavez, and the State of the Farm Workers Movement
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Labor
Foundry Workers Strike to Save Their Healthcare
David Bacon
Feature
Fired for the Crime of Working
Not much has changed for undocumented workers since Obama took office.
David Bacon
Dispatch
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.
David Bacon
Labor
Divide and Deport: On Immigration, Thom Hartmann and Lou Dobbs Have Much in Common
David Bacon
Labor
SLIDESHOW: In Oakland, Hunger Comprises All Races
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Labor
An American Garment Worker Asks, ‘Where’s the Freedom?’
David Bacon
Labor
El Valiente Chicano
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Labor
Can Labor Get Out of This Mess? (Part Two)
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Labor
Can Labor Get Out of This Mess? (Part One)
David Bacon
Labor
The Story of an Eviction
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Labor
Will Unions Defend Undocumented Members?
David Bacon
Dispatch
The Midwest Union Rollback
Newly elected Republican governors nix public workers' collective bargaining rights
David Bacon
Dispatch
Lockout KO’d
San Francisco hotel workers triumph with help from city-by-city support
David Bacon
Feature
Grocery Workers Go to War Over Healthcare
David Bacon
Dispatch
Workers Unite
Unions around the world oppose the drive for war
David Bacon
Feature
No Quiero Taco Bell!
David Bacon interviews Lucas Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
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Feature
Test Unrest
California teachers are leading a backlash against high-stakes exams.
David Bacon
Feature
The Charleston Five
South Carolina declares war on unions
David Bacon