{"id":960,"date":"2019-07-22T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/guild-notes\/?post_type=article&p=960"},"modified":"2019-07-24T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:41:46","slug":"labor-employment-committee-launches-training-program-for-immigrant-workers","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/guild-notes\/article\/labor-employment-committee-launches-training-program-for-immigrant-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor & Employment Committee Launches Training Program for Immigrant Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Setareh Ghandehari and Henry Willis, NLG Labor and Employment Committee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As part of its overall war against immigrants and immigrants\u2019 rights, the Trump Administration has attempted to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from various countries, including Haiti, El Salvador, Nepal, Sudan, Honduras, and Nicaragua while the conditions that lead to the TPS designation persist. Working Families United (WFU), a coalition of unions including UNITE HERE, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, the Ironworkers, the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, The United Food and Commercial Workers, the Teamsters, and the Laborers International Union of North America, has organized to save TPS and protect their members.<\/p>\n

WFU, members of the National TPS Alliance, and other advocates have been working hard on various fronts to protect TPS recipients. Including litigation, which led to an automatic extension until 2020 for many TPS recipients and legislative advocacy. Most recently, the coalition had a hard-fought win when the House passed the Dream and Promise Act. While the Act is not perfect, it would give DACA recipients, TPS recipients and DED recipients a pathway to citizenship. It\u2019s a step in the right direction, though it faces a significant hurdle passing in the Senate.<\/p>\n

While the fight for a permanent solution continues, WFU wants to serve its members who are facing TPS related challenges now. WFU approached the Guild\u2019s Labor and Employment Committee last year for help:<\/p>\n