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Podcast: Power At Work
Episode: Power At Work Blogcast #65: Building Bridges: The Intersection of Immigration and the U.S. Labor Movement
Description: In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Shannon Lederer, the director of immigration policy for the AFL-CIO and Lety Salcedo, an immigration campaign director for the SEIU. Listen now to hear about the current state of immigration in the U.S. and how it realtes to labor. Also learn about the economic side of immigration as well as how immigration and labor are viewed in the political landscape.
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Shannon Lederer is the director of immigration policy for the AFL-CIO, where she works with union affiliates and allies in all sectors of the labor movement to develop and advance policies that promote workers' rights and shared prosperity. Since she first began working with brave Filipino teachers who had been trafficked into jobs in U.S. public schools, she recognized that we cannot expect to lift labor standards in our country until all people working here are assured fundamental rights and protections. In her 17 years in the labor movement, Lederer has focused extensively on efforts to reform our abusive guest-worker programs and regulate the international labor recruitment industry. She also has worked closely with global un