Thread: Anyone See The New Commercial Concerning hiring Illegals?

Originally Posted by Bowman

Why aren't more unions involved?

I suspect: Union Treason.

American Members of our labor organizations have been sold out by their own union leadership working the numbers game, playing to illegal alien work forces to organize them to expand their overall union membership and bring illegal aliens into the union at the expense of their American Members.

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisisthe ... 062003.cfm

In Support of Statement on Immigration Reform
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In Support of Statement on Immigration Reform
August 06, 2003
Chicago, Ill.

Many national organizations, including several affiliated unions of the AFL-CIO, have signed on to the following statement of principles on immigration reform and have forwarded the statement to the AFL-CIO for our endorsement. The statement calls for a fair and realistic process to provide an adjustment of status for undocumented workers and opposes the expansion of existing temporary non-immigrant worker programs or creation of new programs.

June 6, 2003

We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to express our views on immigration reform. In the wake of September 11th and the reorganization of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the Administration and Congress have a new opportunity to remake immigration policy. There are numerous issues to consider, but we want to make our positions clear on two pressing issues.

Central to any immigration reform effort is a fair and realistic process to provide an adjustment of status, or legalization, to undocumented workers who have been law-abiding contributors to the American economy and to our society. These workers deserve the same rights and should bear the same responsibilities as other immigrants. Any such program also should provide the opportunity for these immigrants to unify their families.

However, we oppose expansion of existing temporary non-immigrant worker programs or the creation of any new such programs at this time. Current foreign worker programs contain many of the same shortcomings as the notorious bracero program, which began in 1943 as a wartime emergency program but continued amid great controversy until 1964. Legally and practically, guestworkers have never been afforded the same workplace protections as domestic workers, and, as non-immigrants, they have been denied the democratic rights and economic bargaining power of immigrants and citizens. The vulnerability of these workers inescapably leads to severe and frequent instances of employer abuse and government neglect. The current guestworker programs should be reformed to provide essential labor market and workplace protections for both immigrant and non-immigrant workers, as well as a path to adjustment of status and citizenship.

The legislative path to immigration reform is a complicated one, especially in 2003. However, enabling undocumented workers within our borders to adjust their status would enhance national security, public safety, and economic security. On the other hand, expanding or creating new guestworker programs would add another shameful chapter, like the bracero program, to our nation's history.

Thank you for your consideration of these views.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

United Food And Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), AFL-CIO

Food and Allied Service Trades, AFL‑CIO (FAST)

Farmworker Justice Fund (FJF)

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union

(BCTGM), AFL-CIO

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)

Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE),AFL-CIO

International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), AFL-CIO

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, AFL-CIO

Minority Coalition of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union National Employment Law Project (NELP)

United Latinos of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF)

School For All

Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

Union of Needletrade Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE)

Sisters of Mercy U.S. Province

Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

National Employment Law

National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

Mexico Solidarity Network

C.A.S.A. del Llano (Communities Assuring a Sustainable Agriculture)

The Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center

Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural

Growing Power

Agricultural Resources Center/Pesticide Education Project

Young Korean American Service and Education Center (YKASEC)

Oxfam America

Agricultural Missions, Inc.

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs

National Family Farm Coalition

Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants (CHRI)

Rural Opportunities, Inc.

Jewish Labor Committee (JLC)

Practical Law Office Technology for Solos and Small Firms

Jobs with Justice

National Farm Worker Ministry

National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

Tennessee Justice Center

Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local No. 17, Minnesota

North Carolina Farmworker Project

Immigrant Rights Network of Iowa & Nebraska

Oregon Law Center

Catholics for Justice (Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph)

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE), Ohio

American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3354

California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc. (CRLAF)

Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, Idaho

Farmworker Coordinating Coalition of Palm Beach County, Inc.

Immigrants Legal Assistance Project, North Carolina Justice and Community

Development Center

Tennessee Immigrant Rights Coalition

Border Agricultural Workers Center

CAUSA, Connecticut

PCUN (Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste),Oregon

Conference of Social Justice Coordinators of Southern California

Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.

San Joaquin Valley Center for Immigrant and Worker Rights

Latino Community Development Center (North Carolina)

Equal Justice Center (Texas)

Nebraska Appleseed

Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Friends of Farmworkers (Pennsylvania)

Minnesota Food Association

Rural Vermont

Past Regents Club of the Diocese of Rochester, New York

Hispanic Farmers Association of El Paso

Farmworker Women’s Institute (New York)

CITA (Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas)

Comite de Apoyo Para Los Trabajadores Agricolas (Farmworkers Support

Committee, New Jersey and Puerto Rico)

El Centro, Inc. (Kansas)

El Pueblo, Inc. (North Carolina)

Hispanic Farmers Association of El Paso

Latinos Unidos Siempre (LUS)

The AFL-CIO endorses the foregoing statement except that with respect to agriculture, the United Farmworkers Union and other farmworker advocates have been negotiating with agricultural growers on a mutually agreeable change in policy, which would ensure an adjustment of status and worker protections through an immigrant adjustment program. The AFL-CIO and its member unions will support any mutually agreed upon legislative proposal in the agricultural industry that advances the rights of farmworkers.

I haven't seen this play in my neck of the woods yet. I would love it.

Americans are mad as heck and we aren't going to take it any more....

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/art ... 2759.shtml

Union Groups Support Immigration Reform Bill

NewsMax.com Wires
Friday, Jan. 20, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Congress should approve changes in immigration law to give illegal immigrants a better path toward legal status, business, labor and religious groups said Thursday.

Representatives of a coalition of the groups said they generally favored legislation being offered by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., that would permit illegal immigrants to obtain work visas for up to six years, with the opportunity to apply for permanent residency.

"We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status," said Thomas Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

He was joined by Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, Terence O'Sullivan, general president of the Laborers' International Union of North America, Mark Franken of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Kelley Rice-Schild of the American Health Care Association.

The House last month passed legislation to tighten border controls and force employers to confirm the legal status of their workers. But it drew criticism from many groups involved in immigration issues, who stressed that Congress won't solve immigration problems unless it deals with the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally.

The Senate is expected to turn to immigration as early as next month, considering several ideas for guest worker programs. Along with the McCain-Kennedy bill, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., are promoting a temporary worker program under which people now in the country illegally would have to return home first to apply for a work visa.

Donohue said there aren't many issues - naming transportation and national security - where business and labor see eye-to-eye. "We have decided that this is a fundamental and essential issue for the future of our economy and our society."

An underground economy, said SEIU's Stern, "undermines standards for all workers in this country and creates division in workplaces and in our communities."

Donohue said the business community sees a temporary worker system as essential for addressing the current and future worker shortage. He denied that business sees immigrants as a source of cheap labor.

"The status quo or a border security bill with draconian fines and penalties would only drive them deeper into the shadows and subject them on occasion to exploitation," he said.

The group also agreed that the Cornyn-Kyl approach of requiring those here illegally to return to their home countries to apply for visas could be unworkable. It would be "enormously disruptive," Stern said.

O'Sullivan said that while his 800,000-member group backs McCain-Kennedy, it would like to see tougher labor market tests to ensure that the foreign workers are needed and that they don't bring down wages.

The AFL-CIO has taken a different approach to guest workers than the 1.8-million member SEIU, which last summer joined other unions in breaking away from the national labor federation.

AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson, in a letter this week to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said her group supports the legalization of undocumented workers already living and paying taxes in the United States. But she said there are better and more moral solutions available than the massive expansion of temporary worker programs that serve to provide employers with a steady stream of vulnerable workers.

© 2006 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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The union leadership sold them out. We saved them by defeating Shamnesty 3 times. Will they now see that they are The Americans who must save themselves? I sure hope so.

Wake Up Unions! Don't let illegal aliens steal your jobs and livelihoods out from under you right under your nose with your blessing, for crying out loud! You're Americans. Start acting like it. Tell your union you want to join this Coalition and fight for your jobs, your families, your fellow citizens and the future of the United States of America!

You were born to do this, so just do it!

What are these union leaders trying to feed non-union American workers? The unions are out for one thing: increasing the membership by having illegals no longer afraid of joining the union because of their status.

Originally Posted by Bowman

Why aren't more unions involved?

they dont care who is legal or illegal as long as the money comes in every month

This is a good video that most of the public will agree with. Keep the issue out there but on our terms and not theirs.

Originally Posted by vortex

What are these union leaders trying to feed non-union American workers? The unions are out for one thing: increasing the membership by having illegals no longer afraid of joining the union because of their status.

Exactly. That's what's behind Card Check, the Employee Freedom Choice Act that would allow a union to organize a work force without a union election. They just use the cards that authorize the election unless the employees demand an election with a secret ballot.

Holding American Elections in Spanish is very tedious. You know a lot can be lost in translation. Using Card Check, they just say "sign here, gracias", bingo .. you're done ... UNION!!



I support unions but I adamantly oppose this EFCA. Organizing a work force may be right or it may be wrong. It takes informed workers, American Workers, to know when a work force needs to be organized and it requires an election with secret ballots so the workers have total anonymity.

That is so cool. I love it. Finally we as a whole are getting more recognition. We need to hound these corporations and government officials at every turn in their daily lives.

What is even more amazing though is the fact that our government gives out money for bailouts to these corporations and banks. AND THINK ABOUT IT! These corporations are so big and nationwide or even world wide and make tons of money.

BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY MONEY IN THEIR ACCOUNTS,,,SO WHERE DOES IT ALL GO!

AND YET THEY WANT TO KEEP HIRING CHEAPER AND CHEAPER LABOR. TO MAKE MORE PROFIT,,,,,,,,,,,,FOR WHO!

damn that pisses me off....................ooooops again

Originally Posted by jamesw62

Originally Posted by Bowman

Why aren't more unions involved?

they dont care who is legal or illegal as long as the money comes in every month

That sounds like The Catholic Church!!!