Solidarity between labor unions and immigrant communities

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

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Many labor unions were once wary of immigrants, viewing them as low-cost competitors for union jobs. Now, changing demographics and common interests have resulted in unions playing a more prominent role in immigrant workforces and communities. We'll hear more. Plus, a bill before the House would claw back more than $9 billion in funding, and a United Nations report shows nearly 138 million children are working worldwide.

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0:00.0	Hey there, and thanks for listening. We want to know more about our audience. Stick around at the end of this episode to hear about how you can help provide feedback and have a chance to walk away with a $75 gift card.
0:17.3	Changing views of labor unions on immigrant labor.
0:23.7	I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. First, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would formalize some of the White House's spending cuts for money that has already been allocated by Congress.
0:33.0	This includes money for public broadcasting.
0:35.6	Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzor reports.
0:38.0	The bill would claw back more than $9 billion in funding Congress once voted for.
0:43.5	It's the first step in the Trump administration's efforts to formalize some of the cuts from Doge,
0:48.8	the cost-cutting commission once headed by Elon Musk.
0:52.1	Since Congress has the power of the purse, only lawmakers can
0:55.5	officially take money back. The legislation would claw back two years worth of federal funding for
1:00.9	PBS and public radio stations, totaling about a billion dollars. Most of the cuts would come from
1:06.9	foreign aid spending. That reportedly includes money for things like reproductive health
1:11.5	and support for LGBT communities. The White House formally sent the request for the funding
1:16.9	clubbacks to Congress last week. That started the clock ticking on a 45-day deadline for lawmakers
1:22.7	to approve the bill. The only need is simple majority that avoids a Senate filibuster. If the House
1:28.6	okays the measure today, it will go on to the Senate. I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.
1:35.6	Now to labor unions and union members opposing the Trump administration's workplace raids and
1:40.6	deportations. One focus has been the arrest of service employees union official
1:44.8	David Huerta in Los Angeles at a protest on Friday. He has been charged with a federal felony,
1:50.5	allegedly impeding an officer. Another focus of some unions, the mistaken deportation of
1:55.9	Kilimar Abrego Garcia, a trades worker apprentice who is now under grand jury indictment. This kind of
2:02.5	solidarity would have been less common a generation ago when some in the labor movement saw
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