Do you have to have your greencard to apply for union membership?
August 23, 2011 7:40 AM Subscribe
Bricklayers: Can illegal immigrants join your union(s)?
Are you talking about the United States? And are you asking about the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC), or about another union that counts bricklayers as members (this differs by local)?
If you are referring to the BAC, this becomes a tricky question because it is an international union, so as long as someone is from Earth, the notion of an "illegal immigrant" doesn't compute at the level of the international--but it would for the locals. In my experience with the similar locals in Chicago, I would say that they have never admitted a Latino, black or Asian member without documentation--but they've been an important stepping stone to economic legitimacy for Irish and Polish "illegal" workers for a century. But maybe that's more about Chicago than anything else.
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 8:15 AM on August 23, 2011
If you are referring to the BAC, this becomes a tricky question because it is an international union, so as long as someone is from Earth, the notion of an "illegal immigrant" doesn't compute at the level of the international--but it would for the locals. In my experience with the similar locals in Chicago, I would say that they have never admitted a Latino, black or Asian member without documentation--but they've been an important stepping stone to economic legitimacy for Irish and Polish "illegal" workers for a century. But maybe that's more about Chicago than anything else.
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 8:15 AM on August 23, 2011
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