UNITE Negotiates Seniority for Illegals (even after deportation)

[Tom Lehman]

Chris--Don't tell me you believe in immaculate conception!  Not to hurt the
feelings of my Roman Catholic friends, I wouldn't attempt to debate immaculate
conception in terms of Jesus Christ. If someone wants to believe that Jesus
Christ was conceived that way--well that's ok with me. I can even make a case
for it myself. There are things that human beings don't understand.  But, for
all the rest of us it takes a man and a woman to produce a child or to make a
decision to produce a child.  I'm sure they understand that down in Latino
America.

Tom

Chris Kromm wrote:


> Yes, it is -- Tom's distaste for Latinos has been evidenced several times.
> Nobody really calls him to the mat on it though.
> CK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Liza Featherstone <lfeather32 at erols.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:14 PM
> Subject: Re: UNITE Negotiates Seniority for Illegals (even after
> deportation)
>
> > 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.
> > >