It's not known how many undocumented workers were involved in the 9/11 cleanup, but advocates say it's somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people. The fear of being picked up by Immigration has added to the PTSD which most of the group suffer.
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Chavez was the public figure, but Huerta and farmworkers across America, including in Illinois, carried the farm labor movement. Metro Chicago has more agricultural workers than other parts of Illinois — they tend nurseries and landscape or mow lawns
Meatpacking workers face an uphill battle as they fight for better conditions. Union density in the industry has fallen precipitously. Up to 90 percent of meatpacking workers belonged to unions in the postwar era, but only 15 percent did by 2019.
Kent Wong’s life and work constitute a legacy of vision and integrity. He built bridges—between labor and the academy, immigrant and native-born workers, nations long divided by ideology. He challenged labor to live up to its ideals of solidarity.
The administration took aim at the Twin Cities because of the George Floyd uprising, a sense of disciplining the population. Unions which want to be fighters for the working class have to be a part of this fight.
Workers are bombarded by false ideas about immigration and immigrants, that hold immigrants responsible for poverty, lost jobs and crime. To organize for political change, workers have to be convinced to support the rights of all working people.
Migrant workers return from Gulf countries with failed kidneys, victims of extreme temperatures, grueling labor, and a global system that leaves them unprotected.
It will take a lot of organizing but the fight is definitely on.
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