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In an effort to avert the bitter and public feuding between business and labor organizations that helped kill a broad immigration overhaul in 2007, representatives of the two groups released a statement on Thursday outlining shared goals designed to show that, at least for now, they could reach a basic level of compromise.
In the statement, signed by Thomas J. Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Richard L. Trumka, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the groups called for a visa system that would allow businesses to meet their demand for lower-skilled workers, while offering some protections for American workers.
The United States will always be a nation of immigrants who have contributed greatly to the vitality, diversity and creativity of American life, the statement said. Yet, like the rest of Americas immigration system, the mechanisms for evaluating our labor market needs and admitting foreign workers as well as recruiting U.S. workers for temporary and permanent jobs are broken or nonexistent.
The statement presented three general goals for addressing the issue of immigration by lower-skilled workers: the assurance that American workers should have a first crack at available jobs; a new visa program for lower-skilled workers that will adjust to reflect the changing needs to businesses as the economy shrinks and expands; and greater transparency, rooted in demographic and labor market data, in determining the market need for temporary workers.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/u...rs-urge-visa-system-for-low-skilled-work.html
In the statement, signed by Thomas J. Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Richard L. Trumka, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the groups called for a visa system that would allow businesses to meet their demand for lower-skilled workers, while offering some protections for American workers.
The United States will always be a nation of immigrants who have contributed greatly to the vitality, diversity and creativity of American life, the statement said. Yet, like the rest of Americas immigration system, the mechanisms for evaluating our labor market needs and admitting foreign workers as well as recruiting U.S. workers for temporary and permanent jobs are broken or nonexistent.
The statement presented three general goals for addressing the issue of immigration by lower-skilled workers: the assurance that American workers should have a first crack at available jobs; a new visa program for lower-skilled workers that will adjust to reflect the changing needs to businesses as the economy shrinks and expands; and greater transparency, rooted in demographic and labor market data, in determining the market need for temporary workers.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/u...rs-urge-visa-system-for-low-skilled-work.html
