Building Bridges Radio: :Immigration Debate and Day Care Union Busting in NYC

by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg Monday, Jun. 04, 2007 at 2:04 PM

WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW

Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report

National Edition

Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

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Immigration Debate: A Grand Compromise?

with

Sonia Ramirez, AFL-CIO Immigration Legislation Representative



The new immigration proposal sponsored by the White House and several Democratic and Republican Senators would create a new guest worker program that expands the class of disenfranchised workers and the estimated 12 million undocumented workers already in the country would face a long path, riddled with mines to accomplish citizenship.

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NYC Day Care Workers Protest Mayor Bloomberg’s Union Busting



Local 1707’s day care workers demonstrated at City Hall against Mayor Bloomberg’s refusal to negotiate a contact for 7,000 day care workers. To make matters worse, the City is ignoring an arbitration decision on the termination of 600 after-school program employees after the City changed the agency that employs them. Thousands of children lost their after-school care when these employees were terminated.

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