By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium, Mar. 24 2011
Arizona’s business leaders, frustrated by the deep financial fallout of increasingly radical immigration proposals, successfully swayed state lawmakers into defeating five extremist anti-immigrant bills. New America Media’s Valeria Fernández reports that 60 executives from the likes of WellsFargo bank and U.S. Airways penned an open letter to state Senate President Russell Pearce last week, urging him to leave immigration policy to federal government. Julianne Hing at Colorlines.com has posted the letter in full, but here’s the gist:
European Parliament Plenary Sessions Press Release, Mar. 23 2011
Non EU-workers are set to enjoy the same rights regarding working conditions as EU nationals, under the proposed ‘single permit’ law directive adopted by Parliament on Thursday. This draft law seeks to simplify procedures for both migrants and their employers via a combined permit for residence and work.
By FATIMA SIDIYA | ARAB NEWS. Published: Mar 22, 2011 22:42
JEDDAH: While some private sector companies are paying bonus to their employees following the recent royal decree that approved two months’ salaries in bonus for all government employees, not all companies are following suit — and some still have gone months without paying their workers. After the announcements Arab News received calls from employees who did not receive their regular salaries. A company that has two branches, one in Riyadh and another in Dhahran, did not give salaries to 250 employees, five of whom are Saudi. Local custom prevents the naming of companies or individuals who could be potentially involved in legal disputes.
Watch our 30-sec promotional vides for the upcoming march to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. Thank you to Isaac Oommen and Alejandro Zuluaga for the videos! The march is on Sunday March 20th at 2pm at Waterfront Skytrain Station. Details on the march here.
Video: Self-determination and end all racist wars and occupations!
Libya feared to be preventing migrant workers from leaving
guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 March 2011 18.06 GMT
Thousands of migrant workers are feared to be still trapped in Libya, prevented by the authorities from leaving the country via Tunisia. An estimated 180,000 have already fled. The number of people crossing the border fell from 10,000-15,000 a day earlier this week to fewer than 2,000 on Thursday. Andrew Mitchell, the British international development secretary, who visited the border on Friday, said: “It’s an artificial and abrupt stop. We have no idea why, but we’re trying to find out.”
