Labor Doesn’t Care about American Workers

According to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, “the labor movement has no higher priority in 2013 than a workable immigration system that will allow 11 million aspiring Americans to become citizens.”

Fact Check: If this is the priority of the labor movement, then the well-being of American workers, particularly the poorest of them, is a very low priority of the labor movement. The “aspiring Americans” to whom Trumka so disingenuously refers are illegal aliens, and many are illegally taking jobs that millions of unemployed Americans could and would do.

Of course the propagandists for illegal immigration will reply that illegal aliens only take jobs that Americans don’t want, but this simply isn’t true. In almost all job categories, except for agriculture and a few others, native-born Americans are the majority of workers. Thus when illegal aliens take these jobs, they’re competing with Americans. See the link below.

Are There Really Jobs Americans Won’t Do?

Also, the amnesty will allow amnestied illegal aliens after a period of time to bring in their relatives from abroad, thus creating more job competition. And of course, by rewarding illegal aliens with legal status and citizenship, we will encourage more to come, thus again complicating employment for Americans.

Ironically the founder of the AFL, Samuel Gompers, understood well that mass immigration was not of benefit to U.S. workers. He maintained that it mainly benefited business interests wanting cheap labor and ethnic activists wanting to increase the political clout of their political party. Another labor leader who stood for American workers against foreign labor was the Hispanic icon Caesar Chavez who strongly supported efforts to curtail illegal immigration.

So why does the AFL-CIO support amnesty? One explanation is that the union wants to stand in solidarity with other groups on the left which view amnestied illegal aliens as a new “progressive” voting bloc, despite the consequences for U.S. workers, many of whom, again, are on the low end of the economic scale. Another possibility suggested by cynics is that more naturalized illegal aliens could mean more dues-paying members for union bosses to recruit.

Whatever the reasons, The AFL-CIO is now firmly on the side of the cheap labor business interests that Samuel Gompers once opposed.

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