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April 30, 2006
IN PRELUDE TO MAY 1ST DAY OF ACTION, HUNDREDS TO MARCH FOR IMMIGRANT WORKER RIGHTS!
Contact: Andrew Friedman: 718.418-7690 x206 or 718.809.7158 (cell)
For Immediate Release
Immigrant retail workers, consumers, churches, students, labor unions, community organizations to march this Sunday along the busy retail corridor of Bushwick, Brooklyn to call for decent working conditions and living wages for immigrant workers
Over the past year, a campaign to confront workplace abuse of immigrant workers has won over $500,000 in illegally withheld wages and unionized close to one hundred workers at ten stores. The workers joined the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) and are now receiving health care benefits and almost double their previous wages.
Workers will describe working for years for less than $3.50/hour without sick days or even the right to use the bathroom.
WHAT:
Latino workers, consumers, congregants, religious leaders and community-based organizations will unite to march to celebrate their victories and decry illegal sweatshop working conditions. Marchers will call for living wages for immigrant workers.
WHO:
Make the Road by Walking, scores of Bushwick Catholic Churches, the RWDSU
WHEN:
Sunday, April 30, 12:45 p.m.
WHERE:
March will begin at 301 Grove Street, turn right onto Knickerbocker Avenue and continue until Starr Street. (M train to Knickerbocker, L train to Myrtle/Wyckoff)
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
Interviews with affected workers are available upon request.
More on: Expanding Civil Rights 
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 Victory for Immigrant Families: Preventing Unjust Deportations in NYCOn March 18, 2013, Mayor Bloomberg signed new legislation to stop federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from using NYC’s criminal justice system to deport thousands of New Yorkers.
Building on legislation we helped to win just over a year ago, Local Laws 21 and 22 prohibit not only the Department of Correction but now also the NYPD from spending millions of city taxpayer dollars to hold individuals on behalf of ICE agents for detention and deportation. Each year, thousands of New York families will stay together who would otherwise have been torn apart by overly aggressive, indiscriminate immigration enforcement.
At a moment when the country is debating immigration reform, with these laws, New York City sends a clear message to Washington that tearing apart thousands of immigrant families is bad policy.
With your support, we look forward to winning national reform that keeps families together. We thank our partners at the Center for Popular Democracy, the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic and the bills’ sponsors, NYC Council Speaker Quinn and Council Member Mark-Viverito, for their courageous leadership. 
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