Ask Labor Jane: How Can We Organize Worried Immigrant Workers?
Jane McAlevey argues that bosses will always try to divide native-born and immigrant workers — that’s what they do. Our response, in union drives and politics as a whole, has to be unconditional solidarity.
Filipina nurses put their thumbs up after dropping their strike ballots in the box.
Hi Jane,
I am an academic worker at the University of Pittsburgh organizing with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee. We met over the summer and went out to dinner for Mexican food when you came to Pittsburgh to do internal organizing with the United Steelworkers. I hope you are doing well!
The university administration was found to have engaged in unlawful behavior during our April election, so the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board has ordered a new election. We are waiting to hear the date, and we have continued organizing in the meantime. We could see a new vote in as few as five to six weeks!
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