DO IMMIGRANTS JOIN LABOR UNIONS?
*Immigrant workers, even those without documents, have been at the forefront of many recent labor actions including organizing drives and strikes where they are concentrated. *One example is immigrant workers at Smithfield Foods in North Carolina, who struck for safe working conditions alongside their African American and white co-workers. The roofers union reports huge successes among immigrant workers in New Mexico. Immigrant workers are at the core of organizing efforts of laundry workers across the nation. *Employers regularly use the threat of arrest and deportation to break up union actions where immigrant workers are involved. Nevertheless, union membership is growing faster among immigrant workers than among others. DO IMMIGRANTS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES? *Like other workers, most undocumented and documented immigrant workers have both federal and state income taxes deducted from their paychecks. An undocumented worker picking tomatoes in Florida pays more income taxes, pr
