Originally posted in the Wall Street Journal
By MELANIE TROTTMAN, MIRIAM JORDAN and KRIS MAHER
Labor unions are throwing their political muscle behind lawmakers’ efforts to overhaul immigration regulations, with the hope that organizing immigrant workers can swell unions’ shrinking ranks. The Service Employees International Union plans to spend millions of dollars on advertising, rallies and letter-writing campaigns to lawmakers in support of an overhaul. On Tuesday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other labor leaders are set to meet with President Barack Obama on immigration, along with chief executives from companies including Coca-Cola Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. READ MORE »
