New Immigrant Worker Blog

Workers comp consultant Peter Rousmaniere (Roo-man-ear), who wrote the recent column in the Boston Globe about immigrant workers being cheated out of workers comp, has launched a new blog called Working Immigrants, "a weblog about the business of immigrant work: employment, compensation, legal protections, education, mobility, and public policy."

Many of his posts address workplace health and safety concerns, such as these

• Employer insurance fraud inflicts damage on workers
• Florida construction injuries and Hispanics (2005)
• North Carolina employer tries to keep a work fatality out of the workers comp system

And in this world were we see too much fear and hate, we need more of this spirit:

Most developed nations owe enormous debts of gratitude to yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s immigrants. Their physical and mental labors are often taken for granted, undervalued, excluded from collective memory.

Another worthy addition to the blogosphere.

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