February 13, 2009 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. 02/12/09 - A MD Reader Supports Help Save Maryland Rally in Annapolis A Southern Labor Union Supporter Is Alienated From “Jobs With Justice”
From:
(name withheld)
Re:
Brenda Walker On The “Big Squeeze” On American Workers
For a while, I gave my weak support to a union
organization called Jobs
With Justice. Eventually I saw the agenda of JWJ was
to integrate amnesty for illegal aliens with their union
movement.
I have long
felt that free labor unions are part of the fabric of
free society. But I saw that this ethnic agenda was
going to alienate potential supporters of labor unions,
especially in the South.
At one time
the labor union movement was concerned with broad social
causes that all Americans could agree with: good jobs
that paid good wages.
I tried to tell JWJ to drop the amnesty campaign. I
talked to several people high in the organization, some
who work to organize in the South. Their stubbornness
was impermeable to any logic. Many times they hung up
with expressions of outrage. Some said, "No!" I
told them that many working class Southern men would
love to join a labor movement. But when you combine your
vision with a new form of
scab labor recruitment, you will turn off new
American members in droves. I
was beside myself with the stupidity of Jobs with
Justice. (Email
Jobs with Justice).
VDARE.COM comment:
We hear this
complaint a lot.
Cornell University
labor economist
Vernon Briggs Jr.
has written extensively about Organized Labor’s shift on
immigration — which now reflects a pro-open-borders
policy, a sharp departure from the days of
Samuel Gompers
(see VDARE.COM’s
Labor and Immigration Archive). |
