AFL-CIO wants to help immigrant day laborers

By Thomas Fudge / Science and Technology Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published August 14, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

Representatives of the AFL-CIO, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and the UCLA Downtown Labor Center talk about the importance of advancing workplace rights for day laborers.

Host Tom Fudge speaks with representatives of the AFL-CIO and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) about the agreement they reached to promote and advance the workplace rights of day laborers. And a professor from the UCLA Downtown Labor Center talks about why this agreement is significant.

Guests:

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Ana Avendano , associate general counsel and director of the Immigrant Worker Program for the AFL-CIO .
Pablo Alvarado , executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network .
Victor Narro , project director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center , and an advisory member of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

Resources:

AFL-CIO to Back Day Laborers , LA Times
On The Corner: Day Labor in the United States , Center for the Study of Urban Poverty