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You can't raises wages of the low skilled when you increase the labor supply.
Great find! Most leftists dont care or know much about him, they dont care about working people. Its all about race and black lives matters and feminism and sexual identity, nothing about class or working people
Chavez infuriated conservatives by organizing and unionizing farm workers. Bobby Kennedy infuriated conservatives by supporting Chavez and the UFW. They both infuriated conservatives by working to get better pay and improved working and living conditions for farm workers. That picture was taken when Chavez was fasting. He nearly killed himself trying to improve the lives of the people who picked the crops eaten by the Republicans who fought him. He nearly died fasting to support the workers who were in the fields with short handled hoes (now illegal thanks to Chavez) chopping lettuce. Conservatives loved the short handled hoes.... even though they destroyed the spines of the people who used them....the short handled hoe helped them make more money.
Bobby was with him when he ended his fast. They took Holy Communion together. The conservatives who opposed them were not at that Mass. Chavez's head had to be supported he was so weak. Conservatives hated Chavez for unionizing poor, uneducated people who were being taken advantage of. They REALLY hated Bobby Kennedy. Now the conservatives want to support Chavez and the UFW and claim them for their very own? And use a story with Bobby Kennedy to do it? Amusing.
BTW: The UFW supports the Dreamers and a presidential pardon for undocumented students. Call the White House to show your support. Si se puede!
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Chavez infuriated conservatives by organizing and unionizing farm workers. Bobby Kennedy infuriated conservatives by supporting Chavez and the UFW. They both infuriated conservatives by working to get better pay and improved working and living conditions for farm workers. That picture was taken when Chavez was fasting. He nearly killed himself trying to improve the lives of the people who picked the crops eaten by the Republicans who fought him. He nearly died fasting to support the workers who were in the fields with short handled hoes (now illegal thanks to Chavez) chopping lettuce. Bobby was with him when he ended his fast...they took Holy Communion together.
Now the conservatives want to support Chavez and the UFW and claim them for their very own? Amusing.
BTW: The UFW supports the Dreamers and a presidential pardon for undocumented students. Call the White House to show your support. Si se puede!
Actually the point is not conservative or liberal but illegal immigration and its effects on low skilled workers. Would you like to drop the partisan crapola and comment on the issue?
"Cesar Chavez believed ferociously in the border of the United States — because that border protected his union. So ferociously did he hold this view that the New York Times ran a story detailing an accusation that the union Chavez founded, the United Farm Workers, set up a 100 mile “wet line” to keep “wetbacks” and “illegals” — yes, all of those are Chavez’s words — out of the United States."
: “As long as we have a poor country bordering California its going to be very difficult to win strikes as strikes are won normally by other unions with the employer.” He goes on to discuss a strike his union was involved with against a gas and oil company, saying:
…where we closed them down, they were unable to get strikebreakers, or they’d gotten very few. And then all of a sudden yesterday morning, they brought in 220 wetbacks — these are the illegals — from Mexico. Now, there’s no way to defend against that kind of strikebreaking…
On February 7, 1979, the New York Times ran a story in which the paper reported that Chavez, during a UFW-led seven-month-long strike outside Yuma, Arizona, five years earlier, had the union establish a “100-mile-long ‘wet line’ of military-style tents to halt the flow of illegal aliens across the border.”
Actually the point is not conservative or liberal but illegal immigration and its effects on low skilled workers. Would you like to drop the partisan crapola and comment on the issue?
e-Verify began as a pilot program in the 90's. Since then, only a handful of states have chosen to make it mandatory for all employers. Why is this?
Congress could have at any time voted to make it a Federal Law, yet it has not. Why is this?
There are long time sanctary cities and counties in most states including states controlled by Republicans. Why did those states allow this to happen?
The powerful Chamber of Commerce lobbies state and federal governments on behalf of small business interests who hire undocumented workers.
A bipartisan Senate Committee developed an Immigration Reform Act which included a wall, making e- Verify a federal law, increasing ICE employees, streamlined deportation and a pathway to citizenship for those meeting defined criteria. The House never voted on it, thereby protecting their own from being accountable.
Politicians, and the media that feeds off them, have done their best to make this a partisan issue which conveniently has enabled Congress to kick the can for 30 years
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