New York Times
By Julia Preston
June 11, 2013
As the Senate begins debate on an
overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, organized
labor is picking up the pace of its advocacy for the
bill.
The Service Employees International
Union, which claims over two million members, said
it had bought more than $1 million in television
advertising on cable networks nationwide this month.
Five ads feature police officers,
Republicans and small-business owners — not
traditional supporters of labor — calling on
Congress to stop fighting over immigration and to
“fix what’s broke” in the system. The ads call for a
pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants in
the country illegally.
The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the nation’s
largest labor federation, said it would bring 50
union leaders from 27 states to Washington on
Wednesday to lobby in the Senate and the House. The
organization said it was starting a call-in campaign
by union members focusing on about two dozen
senators, from states including Alaska, Georgia,
Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee, who
have not made public their positions on the
legislation.
Richard L. Trumka, the federation’s
president, was among an array of supporters who
appeared with President Obama when he spoke from the
White House on Tuesday morning to urge the Senate to
pass the bill.
Immigrant workers, especially
Latinos, have brought growth to unions that have
struggled for years with declining membership. The
A.F.L.-C.I.O reached a hard-fought agreement with
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in March on a temporary
program for low-skilled foreign workers that is
included in the Senate bill.
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