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WA Jobs with Justice Workers Rights Board Findings and Resolution To Act
The Washington State Jobs with Justice Workers Rights Board makes the following findings based on the hearing testimony on September 11, 2003:
- That fairly treated immigrant workers are integral to the health of our neighborhoods and economy
- That on the job, immigrant workers face widespread abuse of workplace, civil, and human rights by local employers, and the federal government should be proactive in protecting immigrant worker rights
- That immigrant workers deserve the same training opportunities, affordable healthcare, freedom from discrimination, and living and prevailing wages as all workers do
- That it appears that the Federal Government has changed it's policy towards immigrant workers by not vigorously protecting the workplace, civil, and human rights of these workers. The Federal Government should not allow employers to violate these rights using recent world events as justification to allow this mistreatment of immigrant workers
Be it resolved that we will:
Work to hold local employers accountable to not use immigration status in order to deny workers training opportunities, affordable healthcare, and living and prevailing wages by:
Calling on government agencies and nonprofit housing organizations such as the Seattle Housing Authority, King County Housing Authority, School Districts, the State Housing Trust Fund, and members of King County Housing Development Consortium, to investigate building contractor practices regarding immigrant workers and if necessary create new standards through regulation and legislation, and sanction or bar contractors that violate workplace, civil, or human rights.
Working with Washington State House of Representative Speaker Frank Chopp to have discussions with government agencies and nonprofit housing organizations about addressing building contractor practices regarding immigrant workers.
Calling on companies to reinstate immigrant workers who have been terminated as part of a pattern to discourage workplace organizing, and the discrimination of their civil rights. Specifically, we will call for Nintendo to help reinstate Maria Fuentes and for Comcast Broadband to reinstate Ahmed Noor.
Continue to work to a more safe and secure community by exposing and protesting any attack on immigrant workers or any program that would purge immigrant workers from Homeland Security jobs regardless of citizenship, work experience, or history of national service by demanding that:
BICE (INS) cease investigations be consistent with a national policy and not be generated by local practice that appears to be conducted in conjunction with employers wishing to discriminate against immigrant workers' workplace, civil, and human rights.
Former airport screeners have a right to analyze their personal employment test scores and answers, and to a more fair hiring process for the federalized jobs.
By:
Bill Hallerman, Catholic Community Svcs, Dir. Special Ministries Archdiocesan Housing Auth.
Larry Gossett, King County Councilmember, 10th District
Rev. John Boonstra, Executive Minister, Washington Association of Churches
Lisa Stone, Executive Director, Northwest Women's Law Center
Peter Coates, Executive Sec, Seattle/King Cty Bldg & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO
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