Posted by
landerson on Mar 29, 2010 in
Lane's Blog |
0 comments My background as a union representative www.nalc.org/news/precord/ArticlesPDF/0906-heroes.pdf , a naturalist in Mexico (Baja Expeditions 4 yrs) and an international election observer in Central America lead me to some possibly provocative proposals about justice among our workers.
Justice on behalf ot the US citizens in union halls who can’t get work as laborers, framers, stonemasons or meatcutters would be to enforce the law on those employers who have taken advantage of the availability of illegal immigrants to freeze their wages and take their jobs.
Justice for illegal immigrants who saw their opportunities to support their families destroyed by NAFTA, CAFTA and aid policies of the USA would be to repatriate them to their homelands and families with microloans that would give them an opportunity to build the small enterprise that US trade and aid policy has damaged. The kind of microloan that would suffice would be less than one visit to the emergency room, their only health care option in our society.
From my perspective and as a result of many hours of research and study in El Salvador, this would be the fair and realistic path to justice. It is also the position of the FMLN and the governing administration in El Salvador which is trying to stop exporting its people as I recall.
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