>>If protecting union jobs is the only point, anti-immigrant &
>>pro-protectionist nativism is patently pointless. New immigrant
>>workers are more pro-union than native-born workers -- hence the
>>AFL-CIO's new stance. To survive, organized labor has to sign up as
>>many as it can, native or immigrant, legal or illegal. Many foreign
>>nations have higher rates of unionization than the USA also. Since
>>most trade & investment flow within the circle of rich nations, one
>>might say that it is the USA that is bringing down labor standards of
>>Japan & Western Europe by its cheap un-organized labor.
>>
>>The best way to protect union jobs is to sign up & make all union members.
>>Yoshie
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>That's exactly what they are doing. And you are going to see
>those new union members shoulder to shoulder with the old,
>calling for the protection of their jobs and wages against
>cheap foreign labor.
>
>mbs
I doubt that the majority of Mexican residents & Mexican-Americans in
the USA are against trade with, investment in, & immigration from
Mexico. At the very least new immigrants in general often want to
bring their family here.
Yoshie
