Comments on: The Unholy Relationship Between Big Labor and Immigration https://www.immigrationreform.com/2017/04/20/the-unholy-relationship-between-big-labor-and-immigration/ The Official Blog of FAIR Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:52:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 By: peter https://www.immigrationreform.com/2017/04/20/the-unholy-relationship-between-big-labor-and-immigration/#comment-85676 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 02:27:55 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=14019#comment-85676 In reply to softwarengineer.

SWE you said:
“Experience, Skills and Veteran Preference is Considered the Problem By Open Border Pundits [Fascists?]”

Who are these people? please be more accurate and precise…did you mean the government Trump? the republicans and democrats?….

Because as far as I know they are the ones that can change this BUT YET no change..right?

]]> By: Leland https://www.immigrationreform.com/2017/04/20/the-unholy-relationship-between-big-labor-and-immigration/#comment-85597 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:24:32 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=14019#comment-85597 Samuel Gompers was the founder and long time president of the American Federation of Labor, the AFL. He was one of the prime supporters behind the movement that ended with Congress voting in the 1920s for a drastic reduction in the high levels of immigration in the early part of the 20th century.

Gompers did not hesitate to say that the biggest proponents, and the biggest beneficiaries, of wide open immigration were the factory owners and others who wanted a never ending supply of foreigners to keep wages low. As he pointed out repeatedly, workers were left with virtually no bargaining power when the supply of labor constantly exceeded the demand.

In fact, the highest peak of union membership was the 50s and 60s, which, not by coincidence, were also low immigration decades. Then, as now, it’s big business promoting wide open immigration at all levels. They do it for the same reason they do every thing, the bottom line. Theirs, not the workers.

]]> By: softwarengineer https://www.immigrationreform.com/2017/04/20/the-unholy-relationship-between-big-labor-and-immigration/#comment-85591 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:16:18 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=14019#comment-85591 Experience, Skills and Veteran Preference is Considered the Problem By Open Border Pundits [Fascists?]

Ask the AFGE [AFL/CIO] federal government worker union if they’re doing anything about that recent policy change by the DOD? LOL….they don’t care! A lions share of the Generals that retired [???fired by Obama] from DOD are now part of Trump’s cabinet. What goes around come around….LOL

Our American unions remind me of the phony money changers from 2000 years ago, whose tables were flipped over by Jesus, because evil didn’t belong in the Temple…

]]> By: cynthia curran https://www.immigrationreform.com/2017/04/20/the-unholy-relationship-between-big-labor-and-immigration/#comment-85576 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:16:27 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=14019#comment-85576 Wonder if the garment workers are also big supporters of illegal immigration along with meat packing union since lots of the workers in those refractory jobs are here illegality or are refuges.

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