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Posted: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 7:20AM

Union Forms Task Force To Investigate Workplace Raids


Hundreds of members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union packed the exhibition hall in the Chicago Hilton Towers to talk about recent immigration raids.

WBBM's Lisa Fielding has the story.  
 
UFCW president Joe Hanson announced that a new commission will be formed to investigate the government's handling of these raids. "It is our expectation that this commission will play an important role in alerting and informing the public and our politicians that our rights are being violated and we will not sit by idly while future workplace raids are planned." said Hanson.
  
In December of last year, ICE raided six meat processing plants in the midwest.
 
Hanson says thousands of workers were handcuffed and held for hours without access to phones, their families or a bathroom.  A similar raid was held in April in Chicago's little village.
 
The union has already filed a lawsuit against the department of homeland security to stop the way these raids are being conducted.
 
Hanson says the new commission will hold hearings across the country in hopes that lawmakers will work toward some kind of immigration reform.

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