Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations. The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement. They’re part of the Communications Workers’ industrial division, IUE-CWA Local 83761.

Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations.

The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement. They’re part of the Communications Workers’ industrial division, IUE-CWA Local 83761.

  • PhilipTheBucketA
    1·
    3 days ago

    Lol

    Keep your well-meaning sympathy and education.

    We’re obviously in favor of both performative and non performative resistance. I was the one that brought up the resistance movements that were actually rioting, to a small extent.

    Nobody feels “hopeless and helpless” or demotivated. We are feeling that you are trying to create that feeling, unsuccessfully, by saying repeatedly that nothing in America has produced positive change. I’d be happy to have a conversation with you about it, because there are factual things I want to talk about in regards to police killings, but I’m 100% not interested in that if you want to keep strawmanning what I’m saying and weirdly shifting your positions around, for example between “everyone in the US is scared and they won’t do anything” and “sure they burned a police station and a bunch of cars and pre-2014 there were sometimes for-real riots in response to police killings, such as in LA or Baltimore, but why does that matter? Why are you bringing that up?”

    Actually, this message is another textbook example of trying to shift things around and pretend that one thing is another thing so you can frame the conversation they way you want to. Keep it to yourself.