What Unions Can Gain From Immigration.

In February 2000, leaders of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (A.F.L.C.I.O.), a labor organization formed by merger in 1955, agreed on a major shift in immigration strategy. After decades of mistrust of immigration, its executive council was now calling for an amnesty for the millions of illegal immigrants living and working in the United States. In the four years since the union resolution, the labor market has lost about 1.2 million jobs. Moreover, data suggest that immigrants seem to have fared better than natives.