Labor union UNITE HERE, which represents casino-hotel employees in Atlantic City and elsewhere, is organizing sessions to teach workers how to manage a visit from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is the main tool being used by the Trump administration in its crackdown on illegal immigration.
Labor groups have been staging rallies and walkouts against Trump measures such as the travel ban and the effort to deport illegal immigrants, which has resulted in a 40 percent jump in ICE arrests.
Leaders of UNITE HERE Local 54, which represents 270,000 Atlantic City hotel, casino and food-service workers, say fighting hasty arrests by ICE will be a bargaining priority in negotiations on behalf of half of those workers whose contracts expire within the next year.
“We know the companies that we have relationships with are going to comply with the law,” D. Taylor, the union’s international president, told Yogonet.com. “We just don’t want them to do anything that makes it easier for ICE to come in and just take people away.”
