Carlyle Group Picketed Today

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The Low Wage Immigrant Worker Coalition hosts a picket at noon today against the Carlyle Group's abuse of Social Security No-Match Letters to target workers. The Carlyle Group - one of the largest private equity firms in the US - owns Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins, two companies that require workers' immigration status to be verified by faulty No-Match Letters and the Social Security Administration (SSA) E-Verify database. Both E-Verify and No-Match Letters are notoriously faulty (Tales of Dreams Shattered by "No-Match Letters" 12/10/2007 UC () and have been misused by employers to unjustly fire workers. Government studies have shown the E-Verify databases to have significant errors and do not "meet requirements for accurate verification.” And according to the Inspector General of the SSA, more than 70 percent of the discrepancies in the SSA database relate to native-born US citizens.