Posts Tagged ‘labor and immigration’

Fighting for Workers?

Posted: December 10, 2009 at 5:28 pm By Rachel LaBruyere

By 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 admin

From 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: [...]