Like roofers, tile setters, sheet rock hangers, painters and cement finishers that have destroyed the construction labor markets in many areas.

Glad someone is on our side. Buncha B.S. there Trumka.

amount the immigration bill recently.

I don't mean to knock the people who want to come here. Most of them are really decent people, at least the ones I've met are.

But the real unemployment situation here is still very bad in many areas.

Blue collar workers seem to be having the most difficulty finding steady work at a living wage.

I don't understand why we can't wait until the job market for blue collar workers really improves before we think about adding more workers to the labor pool.

The law of supply and demand does apply to the labor market, too.

Shouldn't all these jobs be vacated and offered to US citizens first?

(and big lobby groups).

If only we could all pull together and fund some lobbiests? Seriously.

Especially labor that is terrified of the authorities and has no recourse to complain about mistreatment. Then use that labor force to drive down the price of the rest of the labor force. Works so beautifully that it has been going on for millenia.

Howard Zinn describes it well in the US.

will continue to get no attention.

Business can not only bring in competition for needed jobs, but they can do so using "expedited" programs. They can bring in labor in 4-6 weeks. But a woman married to a man of another nationality, even when married for 20 years, must wait 6-9 months (sometimes up to years) to be reunited should they have spent time out of the country. There is no payed "expedite" program available to you dear citizen, only the wealthy.

There is almost no recognition of rights for the nuclear family unit, and while the population is not aware of it, families of US citizens experience hardship all the time because the system is geared to business and not families.