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Binational guestworker unions: moving guestworkers into the house of labor.
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Fordham Urban Law Journal
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February 1, 2008
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- Hill, Jennifer
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INTRODUCTION
In the mid-1990s, Francisco Hernandez Juarez, head of the Mexican telephone workers' union, proposed the establishment of "an International Union for Migrant Workers." (1) This idea never came to fruition, but the recent success of three unions in organizing groups of agricultural guestworkers (2) again raises the question of how unions might best represent workers who cross borders for employment.
Agricultural guestworkers are temporary employees hired in their home country who travel to the host country to work for a limited period of time. Under U.S. and Canadian immigration laws, agricultural guestworkers are intended to fill positions when a shortage ...
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