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DESCRIPTION:On February 17th @ 10 AM 200 undocumented workers recently fired in an 
 immigration sweep will make history - Join us!\n\nThe news of the firings 
 came just before the holidays last December. Some of us workers had given 
 decades of our lives to the Pacific Steel Casting Company in West Berkeley. 
 We worked in awful conditions, were denied proper breaks, lacked adequate 
 eating facilities and paid into a pension we are now being denied access 
 to. We depended on this job to provide for our families, pay rent and put 
 food on the table.\n\nHowever after years of benefiting from a lower paid 
 undocumented worker base, the company submitted to a federal immigration 
 audit which led to 200 of us being fired. The audits check the validity of 
 Social Security numbers and demand the firing of any worker who is 
 undocumented and cannot provide a social. There have been tens of thousands 
 of these audits throughout the country devastating immigrant families and 
 communities as part of a federal policy that seeks to cause so much pain 
 and hardship to migrant families that they might "self deport". The 
 policies have caused much pain in our community but the self deportation 
 theory has proven a failure.\n\nIn this particular case the workers refuse 
 to self deport or to walk away with their heads down in defeat. The workers 
 have organized themselves to fight not only for their own losses but also 
 against the exploitation of their citizen co-workers. A massive class 
 action lawsuit is in court against the company for systematically denying 
 all workers undocumented and documented proper lunch breaks and an adequate 
 cafeteria.\n\nWe workers call on the people of Berkeley (a sanctuary city 
 for migrant people) to stand in solidarity with our cause. Join us in a 
 march for justice but more importantly for dignity.\n\nCome out on Feb 17th 
 and demand an end to the silent raids that leave hundreds of thousands 
 unemployed and unable to provide for their families. We will meet in front 
 of the Berkeley City Hall and we will March with our heads held high, 
 undocumented and unashamed.\n\nAsking your solidarity,\nCommittee of fired 
 workers from the Pacific Steel Casting Company\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/14/18707348.php
SUMMARY:March for dignity and against soft raids at Pacific Steel Casting Company
LOCATION:City Hall in Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/14/18707348.php
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