"Louisiana's undocumented seafood workers unite to fight workplace abuses," 12 Oct 2018

In Louisiana, fear is running high for the thousands of guest workers that staff the state's $2bn a year seafood industry. Seafood work is so dangerous that workers often lose fingers and suffer debilitating carpal tunnel injuries on the industry's high-speed assembly lines.  Many Latinas working in the industry endure sexual harassment at the hand of white southerners... Worse, many recently-arrived guest workers find themselves in rural isolated parts of Louisiana where fear of law enforcement is compounded by the belief that police brutality against undocumented workers is commonplace. 

... Now seafood workers in Louisiana are beginning to lose that fear as they organize under the banner of the Seafood Workers Alliance. “The company has all the power, but with organizing, we are going to attack their power,” said Jesus Andres, president of the Seafood Workers Alliance... As a result of the growing solidarity and power of the Seafood Workers Alliance, the workers have been able to win the reinstatement of over a dozen workers who feared they would be blacklisted; creating a sense of momentum.