Temporary Workers

Building Pathways For Workers With Criminal Records

December 18, 2025 Maya Ragsdale, Labor Notes. Organize! Jobs, Prisoners, Temporary Workers, Unions

During a factory organizing drive, the Steelworkers in Chester, South Carolina, saw how criminal legal barriers were undermining its organizing efforts. Many of the workers had felony records and were afraid of losing their jobs, while others in the community were barred from getting these jobs in the first place. So the union established a worker center, the Chester Worker Empowerment Center, that now provides record-sealing and expungement support, among other offerings. Unions like this one are beginning to recognize that there is no path to transforming the conditions of work in this country without addressing the impacts of incarceration.

New Jersey Temps Fight Agency Efforts To Block Their Rights

August 22, 2025 Reynalda Cruz and Liana Katz, Labor Notes. Resist! Caribbean, Immigration, Latin America, New Jersey (NJ), Temporary Workers, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

It’s 5:30 in the morning and the warehouse is already buzzing. Workers are unloading trucks, breaking down pallets, folding boxes, and packing orders to be shipped to local stores. Most of the workers at this New Jersey warehouse are immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, and most are temps, hired by one of the 200 temp agency branches that advertise warehouse and light manufacturing jobs in the state. These agencies take a cut of workers’ wages while companies save on recruitment, benefits, and payroll costs. Companies use the temp agencies to shirk their responsibilities, since temps are officially agency rather than company employees. For many immigrants in New Jersey, particularly those without legal status, temp work is one of few employment options, but they face low pay and perilous working conditions.

When Stellantis Fired Temps At Toledo Jeep, We Marched On Management

May 24, 2024 Benjamin Hinsey, Labor Notes. Resist! Auto Workers, Stellantis, Temporary Workers, Unions, United Auto Workers (UAW), Worker Rights and Jobs

After we struck for six weeks last fall and won a contract that promised a path to seniority, auto workers are being screwed over again by Stellantis. The firings were a one-two punch. First, in January, Stellantis terminated 500 temp workers—“supplementals” in the company’s jargon—in Kokomo, Indiana, and at a parts sequencing facility near its Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. Then in March, the mass firings expanded to 341 temp workers at the Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio, where I work making Jeep Wranglers and Gladiators, one of the plants that launched the Stand-Up Strike. Workers got the news that they were terminated via text message.

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