Posted on 02/15/2017 6:56:23 PM PST by mdittmar
From hotel workers to farm workers, from teachers to taxi drivers, airport, construction and retail workers, union members and leaders have been out in the streets in Los Angeles; Phoenix; Austin, Texas; New York City; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and many points in between over the past week. Why? We are defending our neighbors, co-workers and friends who are being swept up in a series of immigration raids. Working people understand in our bones that when the government terrorizes our fellow workers and their families, we all lose. When we allow ourselves to be divided, we are weak, when we are weak, standards erode for all of us.
The early weeks of the Trump administration have sent alarming signals that its law enforcement priorities will target and punish working people, rather than those who steal their wages, harass them on the job and expose them to dangerous working conditions. Such strategies make people afraid to go to work and take their children to school, let alone take action to demand better working conditions or speak up when they encounter abuse. Moreover, they drive down the pay and protections for all working peopleimmigrant and non-immigrant alike.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sometimes in collaboration with local law enforcement, has arrested hundreds of immigrants, regardless of how long they have lived in the United States or how strong their ties to the community. These highly visible enforcement actions make working people far less likely to exercise their rights at work or to cooperate with law enforcement in their communities. Worse, we hear accounts that racial profiling tactics are leading to collateral arrests and that detainees are being denied due process and access to counselfurther chilling the exercise of fundamental rights.
The labor movement calls on the administration to rein in the tactics that terrorize immigrant workers and fail to make our communities safer or our jobs better. Cities and states around the country have shown a better way forward by committing to ensure basic rights and protections to all members of their communities. The labor movement will stand proudly and firmly with all local leaders who support workers rights and prevent exploitation. We know these communities are defending our right to organize to lift standards and cracking down on abusive employers who retaliate against working people. These are core values of the labor movement.
Here's a old song I like;)
Waylon Jennings - You Ask Me To
“Working people.” Leftist union elites and RATS love that term, yet it is broad and never defined. I am a “working person,” waking up everyday and going to work. But I am not a union member. Does that not make me a “working person?”
There is nothing “aggressive” about deporting people who are here illegally. It is simply enforcing the law, REGARDLESS of how long they have been here - in fact- BECAUSE OF how long they have been here ILLEGALLY, committing a crime EVERY DAY THEY REMAIN HERE!
They aren’t immigration raids”. They are arrests of federal felons who illegally invaded this country. Dear LIB lunatics: it is something you aren’t familiar with...Rule of Law.
They aren’t “immigration raids”. They are arrests of federal felons who illegally invaded this country. Dear LIB lunatics: it is something you aren’t familiar with...Rule of Law.
Shut up Dick! You filthy thug.
What I do not understand is why the Democrats and their sycophants are so against the idea of Americans working. And why they are so against stopping human trafficking.
Hey Trumpka, illegal aliens are Scabs.
Unions are only salivating at the prospect of ensnaring more unsuspecting victims.
gawd, what BS
those ‘working people’ he speaks of, aren’t they they the ones that are criminals in USA illegally....AND TAKING JOBS AWAY FROM AMERICANS (100 MILLION unemployed ... and/or stuck with only part-time gigs due to Obamacare destroying their former fulltime jobs, etc.)
sorry, AFLCIO boss, but you is 100 percent WRONGO! (and it is destroying your union, from within...)
They STILL don’t understand what hapoened. Let them keep siding against their own members as they fight the illegals for jobs yeah please keep doing that
Obama bragged about how many he had deported. The only problem is that those deported entered a carousel, soon to return. We are now acting to seal the border, so now the Rats are screaming. How dare we disrupt their plans to flood our nation with illegal aliens, terrorists, and people opposed to our Republic.
How dare we threaten their future voters, and “current illegal voters”. After all didn't former President Obama tel the illegals to vote for Hillary. Wasn't he in fact promising that if they voted Democrat they all would get a get out of jail free card?
the unions are angry - because their membership is being deported. And Americans are too smart to join
Had Trumka did it right, all these people would be citizens and be in the union right now.
Now, they are under the radar and are undercutting union salaries. So what the hell is Trumka complaining about ?
I always wondered why the unions didn’t sponsor these “immigrants” and prepare them to become citizens.
They could have been housed and trained for a trade, much like Pullman did for his employees.
They would be in the union and be democrats for life.
But that costs money....
Union leaders are in bed with Dems and Globalists. Having a well employed middle class is not the long term goal for the Clinton/Globalist Cabal. Like any good Marksist or Commie, they need dumbed down people who they can control.
Red - blooded Americans raised to be independent don’t fit into the slave labor plans of the NWO.
These “workers” are driving down the wages and benefits of long-time union members.
This is how the so-called “leadership” look out for their constituents.
And why President Trump received so many blue-collar votes.
right...I’m wondering about why the unions didn’t latch on to mexican “immigrants” early. They would be union members and democrats for life.
Dear Union Members:
I have already contacted ICE and offered to show them seven different locations where farmers are employing illegals. I’ve sent this information to the local ‘Migrant Justice’ Center as well, in the hopes they’ll voluntarily leave my State. Since we’re within 100 miles of an international border, none of those detained will have an opportunity to challenge the immediate deportation order. Not even ‘Leaky Leahy’ will be able to help them this time.
Because the Union Leaders don’t care about having workers - they just want to line their own pockets, and the Banksters, Globalists, Clinton/Cabal cut deals to make them rich, and the NWO doesn’t want union members who make decent wages. They want Folks who depend totally on the crumbs that Government doles out so that they can totally control them.
Think Communism, like the Soviet Union where the Elites are comfortable, and every one else lives in equality of misery. Even though they claimed to be for the workers-there wasn’t a labor union to insist on higher wages etc.
Is that clear now?
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