Mar 28
“Immigration rights are labor rights,” said Armando Ibarra, assistant professor from the UW-Extension School for Workers in an exclusive interview with Union Labor News.
Ibarra talked about how the two movements intersect and intertwine. He left no doubt that solving the problems in one was dependent upon solving problems in the other.
Ibarra truly lives …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/03/28/ibarra-explains-labor-and-immigration-connection/
Feb 10
The prospects for comprehensive immigration reform are the highest in years, and the AFL-CIO plans to deploy the labor movement’s grassroots infrastructure to pass sensible reforms that keep families united, allow workers to come out from shadows, and that protect workers rights.
The labor movement is working around a unified framework for a comprehensive immigration system with four interconnected …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/02/10/labor-movement-push-rational-immigration-reform/
Feb 07
At this moment, various plans to reform America’s broken immigration system are working their way through Congressional debate. Late last month, a bipartisan group of eight lawmakers unveiled a plan that includes what they call a “tough but fair” path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Shortly after, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus met with President Obama …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2013/02/07/immigration-reform-must-include-workers-rights/
Jun 25
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, delivered its decision on Arizona’s infamous anti-immigrant law, SB 1070. The Court clearly rejected the overreach in Arizona as unconstitutional, but disappointingly, the conservative justices failed to stop the current civil rights crisis and did not protect the constitutional rights of Arizona’s families by leaving in place the …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2012/06/25/scfls-gundlach-skeaks-out-on-the-supreme-courts-sb-1070-decision/
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