Los Angeles
Times - June 24
Ventura County labor leaders and community activists
are waging a campaign aimed at gaining legal status for millions
of undocumented immigrants said to be working in the United States.
-- From church courtyards to union halls, supporters of the
Million Voices for Legalization campaign have been collecting
specially designed postcards that urge President Bush and members
of Congress to back efforts that would allow "hard-working,
taxpaying immigrants" to become legal residents. -- -- "The
truth of the matter is our economy depends on the labor provided
by these immigrants," said a former illegal. "To have
these families here without legal status just isn't right." |
Associated
Press - June 23
Organized labor launched a million-dollar
campaign yesterday to stop the secession of the San Fernando
Valley and Hollywood from L.A., fearing a breakup would endanger
thousands of union jobs and pensions. -- ... Unions throughout
the county also worry that new cities would move against rent
control and living- wage ordinances. -- Organized labor launched
a million-dollar campaign yesterday to stop the secession of
the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood from L.A., fearing a breakup
would endanger thousands of union jobs and pensions. -- ... Unions
throughout the county also worry that new cities would move against
rent control and living- wage ordinances. -- "We really
believe that the proponents of secession have never been friends
of organized labor or their families," said [reconquista]
Miguel Contreras, head of the LAFL, AFL-CIO. |
