A coalition of immigrants' rights groups, workers organizations and labor unions just announced their plans for the biggest single day strike in over ten years. Organizers from Movimiento Cosecha, an immigrant rights activist group told Mic more than 400,000 workers have committed to the strike and they're expecting heavy turnout in states like California.
Immigrant Rights Organizations, Workers Centers and Unions launch a national strike billed as a “day without immigrants” to demonstrate that the country depends on the labor of immigrants and working class people of color. Hundreds of thousands of workers have already pledged to strike in what organizers expect to be the largest national strike since the Megamarches of 2006. Speakers at the press conference included Erika Andiola as well as representatives of Movimiento Cosecha, the SEIU United Service Workers West, and the Food Chain Workers Alliance.
Article by Rodrigo Saavedra, Volunteer Organizer with Cosecha
On Election Day 2016, I emerged from three intense weeks of sit-ins and protests across New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The goal: to bring the families of workers taken in the largest workplace raid under Obama’s presidency into the electoral conversation.
On February 11th, hundreds of immigrant workers, parents, and youth from across the country shut down a retail store in downtown Boston to highlight the consumer power of immigrants. The demonstration consisted of a Salsa Shutdown, in which hundreds danced through the store capturing consumers’ attention. This action formally inaugurated Movimiento Cosecha’s May Day campaign, launching decentralized preparations for a one-day national “Day Without Immigrants” strike on May 1st, 2017.
As anti-Trump high-school student walkouts gain national momentum, undocumented students and allies at over 100 schools and universities demand #SanctuaryCampus for immigrants under Tump. In the largest coordinated walkout in recent history, students in red and blue states launched walkouts, sit-ins, and other actions, demanding that campuses declare sanctuary to immigrants at risk of deportation.
