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Over 100 members of the greater Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, community participated in a forum held Mar. 28, 2006, to
highlight for community elected officials and government staff the
struggles many low-wage immigrant workers face. The forum was held on
the first day of a two-day Great Lakes Low-Wage Immigrant Worker
Regional Strategy Session, of which NILC was a co-convener.
On Mar. 29, the second day of the strategy
session, over 60 immigrant worker advocates, union members and
organizers, attorneys, and government agency staff from Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois met to discuss how regional groups can
better coordinate on a range of issues that affect low-wage immigrant
workers.
Co-coordinators (with NILC) of the two-day
strategy session included the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters -
Northern Region, the Chicago Workers Collaborative, Interfaith Workers
Justice, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW)
Lodge 10, IAMAW Lodge 66, the Labor Council for Latin American
Advancement, the Milwaukee County Labor Council, the National Employment
Law Project, UNITE HERE Local 17, United Food and Commercial Workers
Local 881, Voces de la Frontera, and Wellstone Action! |
