FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-Monday April 5-10:30 AM

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PRESS CONFERENCE
CONTACTS:
JOSE HERRERA 773-632-9992,
MARTIN UNZUETA, 773-653-3664

WHEN:   TODAY, April 5, 2010, AT 10:30 AM
WHAT:   Press Conference
WHERE:  1400 S. Jefferson, in front of the Customer Service Center of UPS
WHO:    Members of Labor Unions, Clergy, UIC students, the March 10th
Committee and workers of UPS denounce the violations of Labor Law by
UPS in the firing of hundreds of immigrant workers and announce
several actions, and a march for May Day 2010, International Workers
Day.

E-verify-fired UPS workers and the March 10th Committee call to march
this May Day for the rights to work for all workers.

On March 21st, more than 200,000 immigrants and supporters marched on
Washington DC to demand the Legalization of ALL undocumented immigrant
workers in the United States. The pressure built by that march moved
politicians to promise to work on immigration reform. Now we want more
than promises. We want action.

“Recently, more than 200 UPS workers were fired through E-verify.
These more than 200 families have lost their main source of incomes.
These,” said Jorge Mujica of the March 10th Committee, “are the reason
why we call to march once again for documentation and jobs for all
workers, and against all verification systems.”

United Parcel Service (UPS) terminated employees who immigrated to the
United States and then became Legal Permanent Residents, says Reverend
Jose Landaverde. These people were following the rules waited in line
for their turn and now UPS is punishing them for doing the right
thing.

On March 31, 2010, UPS terminated hundreds of legal immigrants when it
implemented a federally mandated program E-VERIFY. Teamsters Local 705
and Congressman Luis Gutierrez, on several occasions, reached out to
the company and asked them to do the right thing and not take such
anti-immigrants’ position. These immigrants have families and
children; they are not tools UPS can dispose of.

At the press conference the UPS fired workers will announce their next
steps in their fight to recuperate their jobs. They and the March 10th
Committee will be accompanied by community and union leaders, by the
youth of the Immigrant Youth Justice League and by the
student-teachers of the Graduate Employee Organization of UIC, who
recently overwhelmingly voted to authorize its leadership to strike.
All of them will express their determination to support immigrant
workers mobilizing on May Day.

E-VERIFY has a 50% margin of error is another example of a broken
immigration system.  WE DEMAND UPS TO STOP ABUSING THE SYSTEM AND
ALLOW THESE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WORKERS TO RETURN TO WORK IMMEDIATELY.

 

 

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--
Jorge Mujica

 

Regards;
Jose Herrera
773-632-9992
josefro...@aol.com