department of labor

Teen unemployment rate 25.5% in August 2009, highest since 1948. Can we enforce our immigration laws now? - 9/27/2009

... rate since 1948, the year the Department of Labor started keeping statistics. One of the ways to get teens employed is by enforcing our immigration laws. Many of the jobs that illegal aliens are working - such as fast food, hospitality, and so on - could easily be done by American teenagers. It's difficult for them to compete against foreign citizens who are willing to live twenty to an apar...

Department of Labor, UFCW collaborating with Mexican government, enabling illegal immigration - 8/31/2009

... the Embassy of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Labor and allied organizations to promote the first "Semana de Derechos Laborales", or Labor Rights Week, UFCW International President Joe Hansen joined the Mexican Consul General of Chicago, Manuel Rodríguez Arriaga, to launch the national outreach and education program that is taking place in thirteen cities across the country. They refer...

Interesting: Hilda Solis reviews project using Mexican "guest" workers instead of union workers - 3/04/2009

From the AFL CIO blog [1]: In one of her first official acts as labor secretary, Hilda Solis has asked for a review of how Mexican sheet metal workers were given visas to work on the St. Regis Hotel project in Bal Harbour, Fla., when more than 1,000 members of the Sheet Metal Workers union (SMWIA) are out of work in the same area. The company hired to install the heating and air conditioning duc...

Hilda Solis named Obama's Labor Secretary - 12/18/2008

... Solis to be his Secretary of the Department of Labor: Solis, who is the daughter of Mexican and Nicaraguan immigrants, has been the only member of Congress of Central American descent. She just won a fifth term representing heavily Hispanic portions of eastern Los Angeles County and east LA... Andy Stern, president of the 1.9-million member Service Employees International Union, the 51-year-old p...

Bush to ease H-2A agricultural "guest" worker program; pulls plans from DOL site - 12/11/2008

From this: [Pending Bush administration rules would make] controversial changes to the so-called H-2A guest-worker program [that] could cut wages and speed worker recruitment. They also would relax requirements for providing foreign workers with housing and transportation. A Labor Department spokesman said Wednesday night that the final rules would be made public Thursday and published in the Fede...

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