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Our friends at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) just released several great new resources for advocates who fight for low-wage and immigrant workers.
The resources include ways to protect the rights of low-wage and immigrant workers. They also provide strategies to combat anti-immigrant legislation and arguments to support economic development that works for all people.
Click on the title to link to a resource.
Resources for strengthening protections for low-wage and immigrant workers:
- Congressional testimony by Cathy Ruckelshaus, NELP legal co-director, “The H-2B Guestworker Program and Improving The Department of Labor’s Enforcement of the Rights of Guestworkers“.
- Rights Begin at Home: Defending Domestic Workers’ Rights in Illinois.
- Rights Begin at Home: Defending Domestic Workers’ Rights in California.
- Unregulated Work: Research and Public Policy for an Emerging Trend in the U.S. Labor Market.
- Research on Informal Work in the U.S.
Resources for fighting back against anti-immigrant bills in the states:
- State Identity Theft Bills.
- From Anti-Immigrant to Pro-Worker: What Can States and Cities Do About Immigration and Workers’ Rights.
- Costly in Every Way: States That Have Implemented Harsh Anti-Immigrant Laws Face Grave Economic Risks
Resources for making the case for accountable economic development:
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When did the country become anti-immigrant we are not?Why does the AFL-CIO refuse to call these folks what they are illegal immigrants and insist that they have some God given right to be here?They do not.They have broken every immigration law we have and should be punished for it.Ebery union member here should be outraged that the AFL-CIO puts so much time and effort into this and almost none into what the rank and file want.So far the AFL-CIO has not ask anyone of us what we think about it.
“Why does the AFL-CIO refuse to call these folks what they are illegal immigrants”
Because the AFL-CIO leadership is chocked full of Hispanics who are using their positiions to further the agenda of Hispanics rather than the Labor Movement.
The unity of working people, including across national borders and within borders we did not make, is crucial. Otherwise, it’s a dog-eat-dog, race to the bottom with the bosses playing off one group against the other. Legal against “illegal”, race against race, place against place, etc… . Your enemy is not the person next to you trying to survive, it’s the capitalist system and the bosses who are grinding all working people into the dirt.
Dr, because the union movement is about the WORKING CLASS versus the owning class, not jingoistic nationalism. Corporations are free to move from country to country whenever they want. Why shouldn’t workers have that right as well? If you could see the big picture you’d realize that the best way to fight the corporate masters is to organize and lift up ALL workers everywhere. The immigrant worker hurts the native worker because the capitalist bosses are able to pay the immigrant worker less. Remove the corporations’ ability to exploit immigrant workers here, and foreign workers in their native land, and you remove the downward pressures on workers in this country. That’s the right answer and if you knew anything about being a unionist, you’d know it. But what you’re anti-immigrant stance actually reveals is that all you are only concerned with protectionism. Protection for YOUR job at the expense of somebody else’s.
and that is EXACTLY how the boss wants you to think…
facts-not-fear I do not fear illegal immigration,I fear not having a level playing field in my own country.We have plenty of people here that could use the jobs.If that’s protectionism then that is what I am.I am not protecting my job at the expense of someone else,they are stealing our jobs at our expense and you are fool enough to think it’s OK.I am 3rd, generation building trades and if you could see what they illegal has done there. Your opinion of them would not be very high either.To me they are common criminals.Wait till they take your job and we’ll see how you feel about it.The facts remain to work here they cross the border illegally,steal someone’s identity and social security number,sign up for welfare,use our hospitals and schools and deplete resourses meant for legal citizens all the while your tax dollars are paying for it.They are and always will be thieves.Let Mexicans organize in Mexico and let the AFL-CIO go there to help them do it.