[메모] 저임금 이민 노동자를 겨냥한 미국 고용주들의 보복

출처: Workers Rights on ICE: How Immigration Reform Can Stop Retaliation and Advance Labor Rights. National Employment Law Project. Feb 2013.
지은이: Rebecca Smith, Eunice Hyunhye Cho


※ 발췌 (excerpts):

( ... ) The build-up of immigratin enforcement provides unscrupulous employers with additional tools to retaliate against immigrant workers who seek to exercise their rights. ( ... )

( ... ) While threats of job loss have an especially serious consequence in this job market, an employer's threat to alert immigration or local law enforcement of an undocumented immigrant worker's status carries aded force. Such action is at least as frequent as other forms of retaliation. ( ... )

( ... ) Research and individual experiences show that rampant labor violations and widespread practices of retaliation have become key features of the low-wage labor market in the United States. In many of these occupations and industries, vulnerable immigrants cannot exercise their labor rights. Bad jobs will not become good jobs when a substantial portion of the workforce is so constrained. ( ... )