This is more like it

Chinese worker protests increase as troubles mount, two reports find

Adding insult to injury

Look who adopted the stretch of Interstate 5 that includes the infamous San Clemente Border Patrol checkpoint.

Choice quote from the LA Times article: "Caltrans spokesman Edward Cartagena said the Minutemen got the stretch of I-5 purely by chance."

Immigrant workers and the right to organize (latest installment)

Rarely does a mainstream media account of a legal proceeding make the real battle lines so clear:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/372280.html

http://www.forward.com/articles/12439/

These articles describe a union organizing campaign in which the employer, a New York City slaughterhouse, actually took the position in a court of law that they didn't have to bargain with the workers' union because the members of the union--the slaughterhouse's employees--were illegal immigrants. Of course, this is the unspoken position of corporate America as a whole, but individual corporations are rarely so honest about their intentions, and the media rarely reports those intentions, preferring to present the immigration issue as a conflict between "American" workers and the "illegals" out to steal their jobs.

To top it all off, the slaughterhouse management equates the union's entirely peaceful tactics with terrorism.

This week's most naive headline

Despite a decade of criticism, worker abuse persists in China
(from the International Herald Tribune)