UNITE Negotiates Seniority for Illegals (even afterdeportation)

Tom Lehman uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu
Thu Mar 9 12:51:12 PST 2000


Liza--The birds and the bees are kind of common to everyone are they not? The birth and fertility rates in all of Latino America are very high. Nicaragua is no slouch at this either, 44% of the population is under 14 years old! Hondorus and Guatamala are in this heat too. Any good almanac will give you the stats.

I should have said f***in' good time.

Tom

Hey, I'm no blue-nose.

Tom Lehman wrote:


> Liza Featherstone wrote:
>
> > Is it just me, or is this kind of a racial slur? Not the factoid, which is
> > kind of interesting, but the commentary
> >
> > sorry if this sounds schoolmistressy,
> >
> > Liza
> >
> > ----------
> > >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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