As Senate Ponders Immigration Reform, Labor Opposes Guest Worker Program

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/5934

As Senate Ponders Immigration Reform, Labor Opposes Guest Worker Program - 05/17/07

By Doug Cunningham

As the U.S. Senate worked Wednesday to iron out the details of immigration reform organized labor remains opposed to a guest worker program for undocumented immigrants. The AFL-CIO believes such programs exploit immigrant workers and can act to depress wages and working conditions for other workers. Labor supports reform that includes a path to citizenship. And while individual unions differ in their approaches to immigration they are nearly all in agreement that guest worker programs amount to second-class status for workers. The SEIU, for example supports a path to citizenship but is against a new guest worker program.

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[papau]

1. After many years of Guest Workers in the EU - thay now agree with US Labor n/t

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