sorry if this sounds schoolmistressy,
Liza
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>From: Tom Lehman <uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: UNITE Negotiates Seniority for Illegals (even after deportation)
>Date: Thu, Mar 9, 2000, 8:48 AM
>
>I came across an interesting little factoid. The population of El Salvador,
>during the Marxist insurrection of the 1980's in El Salvador, doubled. The
>population doubled!
>
>Sounds like they are having a fuckin' good time down there in Latino America.
>:o)
>
>Maybe Brad should re-vise his stats.
>
>Tom Lehman
>
>Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>> >From today's NYT, a really progressive approach to undocumented workers,
>> actually putting protections in the union contract.
>>
>> March 9, 2000
>> I.N.S. Looks the Other Way on Illegal Immigrant Labor
>> NY TIMES
>>
>> The commercial laundry industry in Chicago, where Mr. Silva works, clearly
>> benefits from the Immigration Service's live-and-let-work approach. Thirty
>> companies wash and iron the city's hospital and restaurant linens, hotel
>> sheets and towels, and factory uniforms. Half of their 2,800 employees are
>> illegal immigrants, mainly Hispanics, according to Unite, the union that has
>> organized most of them in recent months.
>>
>> Last fall, Unite negotiated contracts that recognized the illegal status of
>> some workers, and shielded them. One clause requires an employer to bar an
>> I.N.S. raid unless the agents have a search warrant. And a company must
>> notify the union if it gets wind of a coming raid.
>>
>> "Sometimes I did not want to go to work," Mr. Silva said. "I saw reports on
>> TV of immigration raids and people being led away and I worried that would
>> happen to me. Now the union contract is reassuring, and I no longer see
>> raids on television."
>>
>> A third clause states that when former employees are rehired with new
>> papers -- even new names -- after their original documents are found to be
>> false, they retain their seniority and resume their old pay level.
>>
>> Union scale goes as high as $8.75 an hour.
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