AFL-CIO Now, 10/28/2009

Oct. 28, 2009

A report co-produced by the
AFL-CIO shows the federal government’s immigration enforcement has severely undermined efforts to protect workers’ rights, which in turn harms both immigrant and native-born workers.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, a key speaker at tomorrow’s Building the New Economy conference here in Washington, D.C., writes today that free trade orthodoxy ignores a fundamental economic fact: It matters where things are made. The loss of more than 5 million manufacturing jobs and the closure of over 50,000 manufacturing facilities have undermined our nation’s technical capacity to innovate and to make things and decimated our middle class. Read the full Trumka article here.

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