In response to ICE raids at the Hyundai metaplant in and around Savannah, Georgia AFL-CIO President Yvonne Brooks has issued the following statement:
Georgia’s labor movement is outraged by ICE’s escalating presence at workplaces across the state. (1/5)
Georgia’s labor movement is outraged by ICE’s escalating presence at workplaces across the state. (1/5)
This raid is the latest in an ongoing campaign of harassment that has targeted immigrant Georgians as they try to earn an honest living. (2/5)
Arresting and detaining workers, who are exploited every day and risk their lives every day on the job, creates an atmosphere of fear that terrorizes workers and their families and increases the workload burden on their coworkers. (3/5)
And when multiple workers have died during the construction of this very plant, the only federal action that could possibly be justified is to strengthen enforcement of occupational safety and health protections and other labor rights—a far cry from ICE raids. (4/5)
We stand with every worker who has been targeted by these politically-motivated raids. Our movement will do everything we can to support all working families. That’s what solidarity looks like, it cannot be broken. Workers in our state will not be pitted against each other. (5/5)
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