Thread: 1000's of SEIU Members to Rally in Cities Across Country 5/1

Thousands of SEIU Members Will Rally in Cities Across the Country May 1 to Call for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Fri Apr 30, 5:21 pm ET
WASHINGTON, April 30 –

SEIU Members from AZ, CA, CO, DC, IL, IN, MA, MN, NM, NY, OH, TX, WI to participate in May 1st Immigration rallies

WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday, May 1, thousands of SEIU members will join faith, business and civil rights leaders across the country to rally against Arizona's draconian anti-immigrant law and call for comprehensive reform.

Since last Friday's signing of Arizona's SB 1070, SEIU members have been making phone calls, signing petitions, and holding rallies and vigils to urge local and national leaders that America cannot wait any longer; the time is now to pass comprehensive reform. From Phoenix, Arizona to Washington, D.C., SEIU members will be marching on Saturday to remind politicians and citizens that comprehensive immigration reform is good for our economy and good for America.

Saturday, May 1 2010

WHAT: Thousands of SEIU members in cities across the country

WHO: Janitors, nurses, home care providers, public sector workers, security officers; immigrants and native-born workers

WHERE: Locations of May 1 allies and marches are as follows –Â

San Jose, CA: March from Story Street & Kind Road to the San Jose City Hall (4:00 pm)

Sacramento, CA: March from the steps of the Capitol Building (10:30 am)

Oakland, CA: March from Fruitvale BART to the Federal Building (11:30 am)

San Francisco, CA: March starting at 24th Street and Mission Avenue (11:30 am)

Los Angeles, CA: March 9th Street and Broadway to LA City Hall (9:00 am)

Washington, DC: March/Rally from Lafayette Square (1:00 pm)

Chicago, IL: March from Union Park, 1501 West Randolph (1:00 pm)

Boston, MA: March Everett City Hall (12:00 pm), pass through Chelsea, MA (1:00 pm) and end in East Boston at Lopresti Park (2:30 pm) with rally to follow

Minneapolis, MN: March from MLK Park, Nichols and 41st Street to Stewart Park, 26th and 12th (2:00 pm)

Albuquerque, NM: Concert/Rally at Plaza de Encuentro, 714 4th Street SW (6:00 pm

New York, NY: March from Foley Square, Worth Street between Centre and Lafayette Streets (11:00 am)

Houston, TX: March from Bellaire and Renwick, 5900 Bellaire Blvd (4:00 pm)

Seattle, WA: March from Judkins Park, 611 20th Avenue South (12:00 pm)

Milwaukee, WI: March/Rally from 1027 South 5th Street (10:30 am)

With 2.2 million members in Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico, SEIU is the fastest-growing union in the Americas and the largest union of immigrants. www.seiu.org

SOURCE Service Employees International Union

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20100430/pl_usnw/DC97044

i saw one in an interview on CNN. thank goodness that person didnt get to talk

Does anyone have the numbers on each of these cities?

Also saw on the news this am, a panel of guests talking about unions..heard that less than 13% of American workers belong to unions. Wow, that's an extremely low number, no wonder unions are screaming about legalizing 20-40 million union memb..err..I mean illegal aliens.

i thought it was like 8 percent

Unions used to be the only place that gave proper training while on the job to millions of Americans. The fact that they have become greedy just unscores the dire straits this country has come to. I was offered a teaching position for the ABC, (Association of Builders and Contractors) the official licensing/training of apprentices through journeymen laborers. After being in construction since 1968 They felt I was qualified.
But the unions have adopted the same policys of the national school districts, if they can't pass, reduce the passing qualifications. IE: a failing score 10 years ago would be a candidate for a PHD today.
I wouldn't have a union employee on my jobsite again except if it's in like Pa where all work goe s through a union hall,, But that lump would be just that, sit in the office til the job was done, so he can't styrectch the job.
LW

I received an unsolicited call from "PROGRESSIVES FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM" (below) and they also sent me two unrequested but very impressive 20-page "Policy Briefs", one entitled "The Economic Impacts of Mass Immigration and the Proper Progressive Perspective." PFIR's approaches to this issue are from the perspectives of 1) unsustainable national population growth and 2) the harm immigration has done to the American worker. Info. on PFIR + a link to this extensive economic policy statement below:

PFIR
PROGRESSIVES FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
"Examining the Unintended Consequences of Mass Migration"

"Protection of American Workers

"PFIR supports the Progressive principles of PROTECTING WORKERS' RIGHTS AND ENSURING FAIR WAGES FOR AMERICA'S WORKFORCE.

"[Labor & Economics

"Current policies which flood the market with low-wage workers CREATE UNFAIR COMPETITION AND REDUCE WAGES FOR ALL.]

"Improving the Lives of People Worldwide

"PFIR concurs with initiatives that provide opportunities FOR IMMIGRANTS TO IMPOVE the economic, health, social and environmental conditions WITHIN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.

"Protection of the Environment

THE SKYROCKETING OF U.S. POPULATION has direct implications for a sustainable future. PFIR promotes policies that result in a sustainable population and resource conservation."

General: "How Immigration Impacts American Labor"
http://www.progressivesforimmigrationre ... economics/

Specific:
Policy Brief # 09-2 | December, 2009

"The Economic Impacts of Mass Immigration into the United States: And the Proper Progressive Response"

http://www.progressivesforimmigrationre ... -response/
(PDF link also available at source.)

http://www.progressivesforimmigrationreform.org/

(Search under "PFIR" on the new "Yahoo Search" feature for earlier posts on the organization.)