Posted on 09/03/2014 1:07:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The AFL-CIO wants President Barack Obama to give "affirmative action" to illegal immigrants who are in the shadows and to go "bold" on executive amnesty.
At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast last week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka reportedly said that he hoped Obama enacts executive amnesty that is "bold enough to be worthwhile." When he was asked "what the labor movement would consider to be bold action on immigration," Trumka reportedly answered, “Affirmative action with workers to let them come out of the shadows."
According to an NBC News report this week, "Labor unions want the president to shield as many immigrants as possible from deportation and to give those who can work the chance to do so legally" because they believe enforcing current immigration laws "chills organizing efforts" by illegal immigrants.
They also want Obama to "protect immigrant workers who join a union or file official complaints about work conditions." The AFL-CIO reportedly wants any illegal immigrant who is employed "to qualify for any immigration relief Obama may authorize." The union also wants "protections for immigrants who become authorized to work because of Obama’s actions to prevent them from being fired by employers fearful of enforcement because they employed workers not legally here."
Labor groups also seek protections for senior workers and temporary work permits for illegal immigrants "in a contentious workplace where immigration is being used to intimidate workers who exercise their rights."(continued)
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With this statement the Union Trumpka represents needs to off him as he’s just admitted that he’s willing to screw them over for illegal aliens.
The whole Democratic Party, which raises a lot of money from these unions, has been doing this to unionized Americans for decades by supporting the open border. Union membership has long been in decline, and will continue to fall, due to the open border.
The problem here in NJ is that the public-sector unions are crushing us, continually raising taxes to funnel our money to Democrats that then raise our taxes again; it is a vicious cycle that has contributed to the death spirals of NJ & NY...
If millions become legal to work, will there be enough new illegals to replace them?
Looking after their members again, I see. [/s]
Its all about union dues and has nothing to do with getting illegals jobs. The gullible illegals will think that joining a union will give them a leg up on those who do not. There are only so many jobs to go around, if so, why are the already existing union members not screaming their heads off AGAINST illegals? Perhaps they no longer want to be in the union and pay dues getting nothing in return, thereby opening the doors for illegals to take THEIR jobs.
Trumka is a piece of garbage.
I realize that’s offensive.....to garbage.
So the unions support non-Americans who are here illegally over American workers.
If I was in the AFL/CIO, I think I’d be screaming my head off. Luckily, for my mental health, I am not.
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