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Important Labor Unions Condemn Arizona Law, support Immigration Reform
Posted: July 12, 2010 at 10:00 am By Rich StolzEarlier this month, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of America’s largest unions, passed an important resolution at their national convention in Boston, MA calling for comprehensive immigration reform that respects workers and condemning the Arizona law, SB1070:
“That Arizona’s law is an affront to American values and our constitution. [...]
Coming to a Farm Near You: Stephen Colbert?
Posted: July 9, 2010 at 1:01 pm By Rachel LaBruyereThe Colbert Report
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That’s right, you heard me. Stephen Colbert has accepted the United Farm Workers’ creative challenge to Americans of all stripes to head out to the fields and try their hands at picking fruit, if they want their danged [...]
Stephen Colbert and United Farm Workers: Take our jobs
Posted: July 8, 2010 at 6:27 pm By Rachel LaBruyereIf you’re a fan of Stephen Colbert (and let’s face it, you should be) tune in tonight for a special announcement about a new campaign from United Farm Workers. Our country relies heavily on undocumented migrant laborers for much of the food on American tables. In the face of the current economic crisis and high [...]
United Farm Workers Wants YOU… To Come Take Their Jobs?
Posted: June 25, 2010 at 12:30 pm By Jackie MahendraOriginally posted at America’s Voice.
That’s right, the United Farm Workers (UFW) have commenced what they are calling the “Take Our Jobs” campaign, an unprecedented effort to call attention to the importance of immigrant workers to our food supply — and the difficulties agricultural employers have in maintaining a stable, legal workforce. As UFW highlights [...]
Working Solutions – not Politics – for Working People
Posted: March 4, 2010 at 2:31 pm By Rachel LaBruyereThe Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is asking Senators to focus on jobs legislation and avoid scapegoating immigrants.
In an email to their list, SEIU said:
As the U.S. Senate continues to work this week on jobs legislation for out of work and working Americans, some Republican Senators are playing the “blame immigrants” game in another thinly-veiled [...]
Hundreds Turn Out for Immigration Reform in L.A.
Posted: February 22, 2010 at 12:24 pm By adminBy Joaquin Guerra, originally posted on the SEIU blog.
On Saturday, over 400 community members, clergy, students and SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members crammed into Los Angeles offices of SEIU ULTCW (United Long Term Care Workers) for a Community Accountability and Planning Session on Immigration Reform.
Congressman Xavier Becerra and SEIU ULTCW Trustee Laphonza Butler [...]
Fighting for Workers?
Posted: December 10, 2009 at 5:28 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Eliseo Medina, Vice President of the Service Employees International Union. Originally published on Huffington Post.
If there is one thing that the movement for comprehensive immigration reform can learn from the congressional fight for health care reform, it’s that Republicans will distort the facts and delay in order to block the change Americans need.
They’ll even [...]
Businesses and Unions Face Immigration Reform: The Guest-Worker Dilemma
Posted: December 10, 2009 at 5:26 pm By adminFrom Maribel Hastings. Part 7 in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players”
In April of this year a coalition of unions, headed by the AFL-CIO and Change to Win (CTW), announced with great fanfare what would have been impossible in 2007: a statement of support for comprehensive immigration reform.
Furthermore, their agreement included a controversial component: [...]
Legalizing Farm Workers: A Shared Necessity
Posted: December 3, 2009 at 11:31 am By Rachel LaBruyerePart 6 in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players”, from MaribelHastings.com.
How often do you think about the working conditions of the people who pick the fruit and vegetables you eat? And how many acres of farmland have gone unharvested for lack of workers, thanks to fear of increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement?
This year, proposing the [...]
Labor Pains: How Our Broken Immigration System Hurts All Workers
Posted: October 30, 2009 at 12:14 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy TYLER MORA. Originally posted at Immigration Impact.
While most employers are law-abiding, some unscrupulous employers have a secret weapon for keeping down wages and working conditions—our broken immigration system. Bad apple employers hire undocumented immigrants, subject them to unsafe working conditions, pay them less than the market wage, or don’t pay them at all. [...]
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