For the last several months, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) has stepped up raids of workplaces and communities around the US. On August 22, ICE agents carried out a raid targeting current and former workers at the Smithfield pork plant in North Carolina. It was the second ICE raid targeting Smithfield workers since last January. The workers at Smithfield have been trying to organize against workplace abuses for over a decade. These ICE raids are creating a climate of fear that discourages organizing.
Jobs with Justice is organizing a fax protest campaign to stop the workplace raids. You can send a protest fax through their website at www.unionvoice.org/campaign/2007immigration/
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BUSH'S IMMIGRATION CLAMPDOWN
By David Bacon
The Nation, web edition
August 23, 2007
"At the Woodfin Suites in Emeryville, California, the hotel threatened no-match firings after workers began demanding compliance with the city's living wage law. At the Cintas Laundry chain, plant mangers fired hundreds of employees last year in no-match checks during UNITE HERE's national organizing drive. The list goes on and on. [...]
"Now the Bush administration says that vastly increased checks will become a fact of life in every U.S. workplace. [...]"
Read the full article at www.thenation.com/doc/20070827/bacon
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