Tag: David Sickler
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“Immigrant workers have always agreed with us philosophically”
Read more: “Immigrant workers have always agreed with us philosophically”Now I’m somebody who’s tried to organize immigrant workers in this town for 20 years. We’ve had some success here and there, but the movement’s never been able to prove to immigrant workers that it could deliver. That it could put its money where its mouth was. Immigrant workers have always agreed with us philosophically. […]
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On a mission to organize immigrant workers
Read more: On a mission to organize immigrant workersLaunched in 1989, the California Immigrant Workers Association (CIWA) supported a number of break-through union campaigns with immigrant workers. David Sickler, regional director for the AFL-CIO, conceived of CIWA as a way to funnel support for the many organizing drives that developed in the wake of the Immigration Reform and Control Act. CIWA staff provided […]