Seventy-year-old UNITE HERE Local 23 member Juan Yanez, a Temporary Protective Status recipient from El Salvador, says that by eliminating TPS “Trump is taking away all we have,” citing the years he and other immigrants have spent paying taxes into Social Security and other programs. About 88% of TPS recipients from El Salvador are employed and pay income taxes. Immigration policy experts believe it will be difficult, if not impossible, for people like Yanez to access Medicare and Social Security benefits if they’re deported to their country of origin. “We are hard workers,” said Yanez. “We don’t hurt anyone, we just work every day to survive.”
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, guaranteeing federal workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively. Today’s labor quote is by Lucy Parsons, a labor organizer who helped found the Industrial Workers of the World and who led a hunger march in Chicago on this date in 1915. IWW songwriter Ralph Chaplin wrote "Solidarity Forever" for the march. Lucy Parsons, who said: "Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn. Be content with nothing less."
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