[NormsRevenge]

The bylaws of nearly all unions don't prohibit undocumented immigrants from joining.

However, Jerry Hunter, former general council for the National Labor Relations Board, said unionized construction workers might balk if their unions recruit illegal immigrants.

"Members could start asking themselves, 'Whose interests are you representing?'" Hunter said. "Day laborers or union members who are skilled workers?"

[Shermy]

Rash of recent stories about unionizing day laborers. Suspect it's a belated pr response to unionized workers complaining why their red diaper baby leadership was allied with the National Immigration Forum and other business lobbies who are working to undermine US lower and middle class wages. Message being maybe there is hope for unionization and the leaders weren't wrong?

"Members could start asking themselves, 'Whose interests are you representing?'" Hunter said. "Day laborers or union members who are skilled workers?"

Members are. Give me a break. The backers of the Senate Immigration bill have already identified construction labor as "unskilled" and therefore a target for the new guest worker programs.

"The United States has no divine right to our standard of living," -Alan Mulally, former president of Boeing