Thread: ILLEGALS Upset that UFW is Replacing Them with LEGAL Workers

ILLEGALS Upset that UFW is Replacing Them with LEGAL Workers

Mucho Gracias to our good friend and correspondent in Mexico City, Edgar Martinez, for this story & translation.

Summary: The United Farm Workers union (UFW) has signed an agreement with the state of Michoacan in Mexico to recruit and hire LEGAL workers with 6 month temp. worker visas. Well, the illegal aliens who are currently working in the San Joaquin Valley in California are mad because they know they will be displaced and there won’t be a need to “legalizeâ€

I was not aware that Labor Unions could "handout" work visas for the United States. However, if "guest workers" are allowed to enter the United States it should be for just one "designated" job (if for a harvest, two or three month period until the harvest is completed but no longer than six months for any one job) then return to their HOME country and get in line for the next job after a waiting period of "six" to "nine" months before they may return again as a "guest worker". The EMPLOYER and the UNION will be jointly responsible for the "guest workers" leaving the country. If the "guest workers" do not leave the country as designated the "guest worker", now an ILLLEGAL, the "employersâ€

[quote]Teresa MartÃ*nez, activist from Stockton who coordinated recently a campaign of letters opposed to federal changes to the H2-A, considers that to revive a new bracero program without consulting to migrants that are here is a lack of respect to whom already face a daily struggle to compete for the few jobs in agriculture. “This will divide us more and will create different classes of migrant workers and it will bring new abusesâ€

Either way, Americans don't get the jobs!

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