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Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant Workers

from #WorldOutlook
March 12, 2025

"The following is a statement by the #AmazonLaborUnion – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (#ALU-IBT) Local 1 defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The #ALU represents #Amazon workers at the company’s giant JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

The #ALU statement sets a good example of how the labor movement needs to treat immigrant workers: as fellow workers, as brothers and sisters.

This question has become urgent as the Trump administration has escalated raids, arrests, and deportations of immigrants under the guise of expelling “foreign criminals” from the United States. "

world-outlook.com/2025/03/12/a

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#Teamsters #news

World-Outlook · Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant WorkersThis is a statement by the Amazon Labor Union – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (ALU-IBT Local 1) defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The ALU represents Amazon workers at the company's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

"Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, and McGreal discusses Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, who immigrated to South Africa in 1950 when apartheid became “in many ways reminiscent of the Nazi Nuremberg laws against Jews in the 1930s. They have very similar echoes in stripping Black people of the right to work in certain places, their movements, controlling them, confining them to areas.”

democracynow.org/2025/2/11/elo

Democracy Now!Elon Musk Was Raised Under Racist Apartheid Laws in South Africa. What Does He Believe Now?Watch Part 2 of our interview with reporter Chris McGreal, who was Johannesburg correspondent for The Guardian during the last years of apartheid through 2002.

Trump administration issues nine demands to Columbia University to restore federal funding

The #WhiteHouse has demanded #Columbia reform its world-renowned Middle Eastern studies department and adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Areeb Ullah
Published date: 14 March 2025 13:31 GMT

"The university was also told to begin the process of placing Columbia's world-renowned Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under academic receivership. This process requires an outside chair, who could be appointed by the government, to run the department for five years. "

"Other demands listed by the White House include a mask ban on campus, giving "full law enforcement authority" to campus security by allowing them to "arrest and remove agitators", and reforming the admissions process for its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. "

middleeasteye.net/news/columbi

#Palestine #MiddleEast #politics
#USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine

Middle East EyeTrump administration issues nine demands to Columbia University to restore federal fundingThe White House has demanded Columbia reform its world-renowned Middle Eastern studies department and adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism
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Update. "#Trump Executive Order Targets #IMLS for Closure"
wordsandmoney.com/trump-execut

"In a March 14 Executive Order, President Donald Trump has targeted seven more federal agencies for permanent closure, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

If some parts of IMLS are "statutorily required" and cannot be shut down by an executive order, the #OMB has seven days to show it.

"EveryLibrary is hosting a petition [to keep IMLS open]…The American Library Association has…weighed in with a statement."

Words & Money · Trump Executive Order Targets IMLS for ClosureIn a March 14 Executive Order, President Donald Trump has targeted seven more federal agencies for permanent closure, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The order states that the president has determined IMLS is “unnecessary” and gave agency officials seven days to submit a report to the OMB