Organized Labor’s Role in Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Date: 
02/17/2010
Time: 
11AM PT/1PM CT/2PM ET
Location: 
Webinar
Event Description: 

Sometime over the next few months, Congress will begin debating legislation for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR). As part of its commitment to protect and advance the rights of immigrant workers, labor unions are playing a central organizing and advocacy role in the CIR campaign. Learn about how labor unions are strengthening and complementing the CIR efforts of immigrants rights organizations, religious groups, community organizations, business groups, and others. Hear about how the campaign has built off of unions’ commitment to organizing low-wage immigrant workers. Examine the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in the campaign during this hour-long webinar.

Report:

A More Perfect Union, traces the historic shift in the position of organized labor to its current aggressive support for immigration reform. It also highlights labor's role in supporting and protecting the rights of all immigrant workers, regardless of their immigration status.

Registration:

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