Re: Organized Labor Split Over Immigration Bill
Steven L. Robinson wrote:
AFL-CIO’s executive vice president, Linda Chavez-Thompson says that workers in these guest programs “are always dependent on their host employers for both their livelihoods and legal status to work in the United States. Guest workers are never truly free, rendering them ripe for exploitation.”
Eliseo Medina, vice president of the Service Employees Union, says that supporting the McCain-Kennedy bill, including its guest worker provision, gives his union an opportunity to be part of the debate in Congress. “You can’t just simply get into that debate by saying nothing out there meets our expectations.”
What do people think of these competing positions?
Doug