Dispatches from the Workplace: Bishops Lead the Cry to Stop Workplace Raids

Religion Dispatches by Kim Bobo | Oct. 23, 2008 (Special Report)

On December 12, 2006, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) undertook the largest workplace raids in its history, simultaneously descending upon six different small towns in Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Minnesota, detaining 1,217 workers from Swift & Co. meatpacking plants.

The churches and social services in these communities responded quickly and humanely by providing support for abandoned children and families ... Full Story »

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 by Evan Derkacz - Oct. 23, 2008

I am the managing editor of the publication but not the editor of this particular piece. Kim Bobo is probably one of the top 3 workplace/religion experts in the nation putting forward, in this piece, an informative roundup of some of the below the radar practices going on, but doing so in a positive and ethical framework. It's refreshing and we all need to see more of this.

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