Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants Portland · LCDI–PDX Español

Bring it to your local

The committee grows one union meeting at a time. Here is how to move the resolution in your local.

  1. Talk with coworkers and fellow members first. A resolution that arrives with support on the floor passes; one that arrives cold may get tabled.
  2. Download the model resolution below and adapt the local's name and union affiliation. Keep the substance intact — the common language across locals is what makes this a united front.
  3. Check your local's bylaws for how motions and resolutions are introduced, and get it on the agenda of a regular membership meeting.
  4. Move the resolution, speak to it plainly — immigrant workers are our fellow workers and union members, and an injury to one is an injury to all — and call the question.
  5. When it passes, send the adopted resolution with the date to the committee so it can be added here, and announce the Know Your Rights materials to your membership.

Model resolution

Resolution to Defend Immigrants Against Mass Deportations and Racist Violence

Whereas, Trump's planned immigration raids have stoked racist, anti-immigrant violence, and

Whereas, this goes together with his praise of billionaire Elon Musk's strike-breaking, his stoking of divide-and-conquer bigotry and encouragement of violent far-right groups, and

Whereas, immigrant workers are a central part of labor, vital to our labor organizations, and their rights are inseparable from those of the rest of the working class, and

Whereas, a union is a self-defense organization for the working class as a whole, and

Whereas, attacks either from the government or from groups of racist thugs pose a danger to workers everywhere, and

Whereas, we cannot look to the government, the courts, politicians of either big-business party, or the police to protect immigrants from bigoted attacks, and

Whereas, it is the duty of the unions to defend our fellow workers against oppression and racist attacks, and

Therefore, be it resolved that [NAME OF LOCAL] will mobilize its membership to defend immigrants who are under attack either from government raids or racist groups, and

Be it further resolved that this body repudiates the vile attacks on immigrants and calls for the rest of labor to mobilize in defense of our fellow workers.

Download the model resolution (Word / PDF) — coming soon

Adapt the local's name and affiliation. Verify the final text against the resolution as adopted by Painters Local 10 on November 20, 2024.