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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Friday, December 19, 2008 ::
Black/Brown Coalition Fueled Big Union Win - By David Bacon, New America Media
If black and Latino immigrant workers hadn't found a way to work together, the union drive would have ended with the raids. And if the company and ICE had succeeded in convincing half the plant that the other half really had no right to work because they lacked legal immigration status, workers would have been unwilling and unable to defend each other.
In the end, both groups found a common interest in better wages and working conditions. But they also had to agree to defend the right of each worker to her or his job, and treat any unfair firing as an attack on the union -- whether the victim was black, Mexican, or Puerto Rican.------------------------------------------- posted 8:08 AM :: reference link ::
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