North America’s Building Trades Unions—an umbrella organization representing three million workers and 15 major unions, including the Laborers and Teamsters—sent outgoing Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.) a letter Thursday accusing her of selling out workers by importing foreigners to work for “Close to Slavery” wages. Mikulski pushed for increasing the number of temporary H2B visas that allow companies to bring guest workers to the United States to fill seasonal jobs.
“We wanted to express to you our extreme disappointment over your efforts to leverage the power and trust that the people of Maryland have placed in you as their representative to doggedly pursue language in the recently passed omnibus bill that will result in diminished job opportunities for hard working Americans,” the letter says. “Flooding a loose labor market such as the construction industry with additional low-skill labor hurts the wages and reduces the job prospects of both recent immigrants and native-born workers who are struggling the most. To be blunt, Senator, your actions will induce a race to the bottom on wages and benefits for U.S. workers.”
Mikulski did not respond to Washington Free Beacon request for comment.
The labor group said that the omnibus bill’s language would triple the number of visas issued and depress wages for blue-collar workers. It also accused Mikulski of attempting to “undermine” labor protections for American and foreign workers to benefit employers.
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Why are they waiting until she's leaving? This program has been going on for years. I guess they can't buy her votes anymore.
You get what you vote for.
Babs is on her way out - she was able to fall-in-line with POSPOTUS because she didn't care about the voters....common practice for her - but this time there can be no consequences on her.
Maybe the lesser informed voter base will learn a lesson from this - never mind, you can't fix stupid!
Midget troll she is.
When people her age get senile like she is, they need to just go off and die, like old indians used to do. The ones that were a drain on the tribe, no good to anyone, just like her.
I thought she died or was retired already...
The blame is not entirely with Mikulski. Unions donated millions to her campaigns and the damn fools kept voting her back into office. Ignorant bunch of lemmings.
627, wait. You are backing he practice of buying politicians?
I thought that was what we were all against.
Please respond.
"627, wait. You are backing he practice of buying politicians?"
Um, no. Nothing remotely like that. Simply stated, these unions and their members have been a major factor in keeping Babs in office. Now they're bitching about her performance. My point is that they are among those to blame for keeping this woman in a position of power.
You Slime Bag losers kept her in Office all this time. NO Need to piss and moan now because I don't want to hear it!
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