The Labor Committee to Support Immigrant Worker Rights
The Labor Committee to Support Immigrant Worker Rights will:
• Educate ourselves and other members of our unions about immigration and immigrant workers’ concerns;
• Develop and share strategies for building inclusive unions;
• Mobilize our members to protect and support the rights of all immigrant workers.
If you are interested in joining, or learning more about the Labor Committee, please send us an email so we can contact you.
Labor and
Immigration
Resource Page
Labor Committee to Support Immigrant Worker Rights (LCSIWR)
Our
intention is to make easily available a wide range of materials on
immigration and labor, from a generally progressive standpoint.
We make
no claims to completeness; this page is a work in progress. We welcome
suggestions for additional links.
If you know of other union positions statements, good articles, or
useful websites, please send us an email.
| LCSIWR &
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Union Positions |
Labor-related groups |
Union Positions
The links in this section are to the positions of unions, federations,
and other labor bodies (Central Labor Councils, etc.), or to official
statements by their leaders or governing bodies.
AFL-CIO
SEIU
UFCW
UNITE/HERE
United
Electrical Workers, UE
Labor-related and groups and
progressive community organizations
This section contains position papers and official statements of
labor-related organizations.
Unity Blueprint This statement was developed by a broad group of immigrant advocacy groups, community organizations, unions and others. It now has close to 90 organizations signed on, including the AFL-CIO and the UFCW.
Community Labor
United (a partnership of Greater Boston area unions and
community organizations)
- Statement on New Bedford ICE Raids and Immigration (scroll down page)
Center
for Labor Renewal
Jobs with Justice
Websites with further resources
The sites listed below are more than position statements. Each of them
offers useful materials that can be downloaded, and/or links to other
good sites.
Highlander
Research and Education Center
Highlander's
website has background information, fact sheets, teaching materials and
more, as well as links to other resources.
Interfaith
Worker Justice
For their position statement, click here. For their
materials, including a new curriculum on immigraiton "through the lens
of faith" click here.
National Immigration
Law Center
NILC
brings together a wealth of information about legal issues, current
legislation, resources available for immigrants, etc.
United Association for Labor Education
Immigration Task Force
This site has a collection of workshop curricula, teaching
materials and articles about immigration and globalizaiton aimed at a
labor audience.
Articles
Please help us fill out this section. Send us your recommendations for
good articles on immigration from a labor point of view. We
are especially looking for thoughtful analytical pieces and
well-documented factual reports, rather than clippings from the
mainstream press.
Harder Times:Undocumented
Workers and the U.S. Informal Economy, by
Richard D. Vogel
Harvest
of Empire, by Kim Moody
Raids, Reforms, and the
Labor Movement, by Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Transient Servitude: The U.S. Guest Worker Program for Exploiting Mexican and Central American Workers, by Richard D. Vogel
Washington Policies Drive
Migrants North to Seek Work, by Mexico Solidarity Network