It’s time for labor unions to embrace migrant workers

1. Who isn't a person of color?? Lighter or darker, we are all of color.
   Division prevents progress!

2. No. American citizens can literally not find good paying work. Now you want us to accept illegal immigrants not only as competition, but as legitimized union competition. HELL NO. This is going from bad to worse– Keep them out.

3. The Unions all push for Democratic votes. I'm in a Union and would never vote for a modern Democrat. Ever The KKK votes Democrat across the board. Democrat party gave birth to the KKK.

4. 💪🏼💪🏼

5. The whole point is to keep people from seeing others as equally human and equally valuable as humans so that the different groups of workers would be at odds with each other and be much less likely to organize against their masters. Elites throughout the last couple thousand years have used Aristotle's writings on the topic as the basis for their own implementations, and for (almost always) exactly the same reasons. In Aristotle's time it was employed to protect slave owners from their slaves. Then it was capitalists and the ruling elite in pre-colonial America employing it to protect themselves from organized workers making demands that would cut into profits; miscegenation laws (banning interracial marriage) 1600s were designed specifically for that purpose, and had to be enforced brutally so that the unequal relations would be accepted and normalized (and this is saying nothing about what the Spanish did in Mexico and further south, or what other colonial powers did elsewhere) and a PERMANENT UNDERCLASS would always be available to threaten the job security of the rest. We've moved on from colonial times, but capitalists and the ruling elite still work hard to keep us divided so that we don't organize against them and threaten either their profits or their hegemony.

   If we want better working conditions and a better future we HAVE to stop letting capitalists and the ruling elite keep us at odds with each other. Racism and anti-migrant sentiments in unions were a major problem that worked to weaken labor movements in the past, and unless we come to terms with the fact that we're shooting ourselves in the back for the entertainment, profit and security in power of the elite (who over time sniffed their own crap so much that many forgot that profit and control were the point), we'll just keep repeating the same mistakes and never see real systemic change. And SYSTEMIC change is what everyone should be aiming at. Not just your workplace or your industry. System-wide change for the better.

6. NOPE 👎

7. Would it suprise you if a registered employed nurse routinely looks at ways to live comfortably as a homeless person to make ends meet because of economic pressure?

8. Sounds like this mostly pertains to BC. Where these ppl are working it is now brutally difficult to find affordable housing. We don’t need more unions in Canada. We need less competition in markets like labour and real estate. I can’t simply import a job the way companies can import competition for Canadians, and I can’t cash in on the exchange rate the way foreign workers do. I knew a migrant worker who was building a little food stall empire back home w his brother w the money being sent home. Another bought his family a nice home for under $20K cash. $20K is a down payment on a very small conventional mortgage here in Canada. Often times their situations are better than the Canadians they work w.

9. i have the answers to her questions = "intersectionality is integral to the logic of neoliberal colonialism" which is why its all show and no action.

10. of course we don't trust unions… teachers unions the worst

11. Workers have to embrace worker power and unity amongst themselves first because if they can't even do that, then how do you expect them to embrace migrants? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

12. Socialists usually don't understand or truly consider the "4th, 5th and 6th estates" .

    search: anti-immigrant left doesn't understand the #petrodollar

13. Anyone who cares for workers should be against immigration.
    It ONLY serves the wealthy.

14. They are cheaper than protected union workers. They will remain unprotected.

15. Labor unions are the cancer that kill businesses.

16. All agriculture and horticulture workers including Canadian citizens don't have the protection of Canadian labour laws. It's disgusting that young Canadians who get degrees in horticulture/agriculture are treated like second class citizens when they work in their field.

17. Define migrant workers. Are you saying labor unions should embrace people in the country illegally? People here illegally are taken advantage of. Thats why we need to secure our boarders and stop the situation up front. When the people that immigrate here have done so legally through the immigration system, they can no longer be taken advantage of. I hope you are not stating that the people who are here illegally should be given the same rights as citizens or legal immigrants. That would be truly tragic. The elites and crony capitalist want leaky boarders so they can take advantage of illegal immigrants and screw over the working class citizens of this country. The political left likes leaky boarders because they can control the narrative and buy votes from minority communities. Both of these groups are truly evil using people like this.

18. Its about time the unions supported workers period

19. No we shouldn't be given all these immigrants jobs they should go back to their own countries and stop flooding America and leeching off our system

20. around here, illegals don't get jobs, housing or any help

21. I fully agree that we embrace migrant workers. IF. They entered Canada Leagaly. If they entered under false pretences send them back to where they came from. They knew the rules before they left their own Countries.

22. No its time to BAN THE FROM CANADA.

23. News to Canadians… you're government is as f'ed as America's government.

24. Thing is there not gonna do it…. migrant workers are gonna have to get together an boycott these companies until they start acting an treating people right.

25. First…amendment.

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