(An earlier version of this story ran online.) Last time Congress takes up immigration reform in 2007, efforts collapsed in part because of the nation's largest labor unions and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at odds over a given visa foreign workers to fill low-skilled jobs. Room to throw open the doors for visitors workers to help businesses meet the demands but said the workers returned home expire when their visas. Unions want to keep visa low as to prevent foreigners from displacing U.S. workers. Leaders in both parties "going around Congress tried to stab others in the back," said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan immigration think tank.So Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue and AFL -CIO President Richard Trumka observers were stunned when they send the "Combined Joint Statement of Principles" on February 21, stating they overcome their many differences. "We have found common ground in some important areas, and are committed to continuing to work together and with Members of Congress to enact legislation to solve our problems today are lasting," they wrote.With White House and Congress will bring major immigration reform legislation this year, support for labor and business are aware that they are at risk of abandonment if they get past their old grievance. The labor movement has come to see foreign workers as a potential candidate to improve the ranking of the company decreased 14.4 million, union membership nationwide is the lowest since the government began counting in 1983. Legal foreign workers better wages debilitating undocumented workers union. Rooms are now saying it is supported by a green card for a foreign worker if it means business is to hire more freely from abroad without running government restrictions. In the weeks after the election, President Obama makes immigration a priority. Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who worked for years trying to win support for the immigration bill, Donohue and Trumka called the Capitol. They urged the two to work out a compromise. "They asked us to start talking, and we did," said Ana Avendaño, Trumka top immigration advisers. Smoking denied comment. AFL-CIO and the business community said they want U.S. workers to get "first crack" at low wage jobs available, the statement said. Under the guest-worker program at this time, employers who want to shoot in one of the 66,000 annual visas for low-skilled foreigners have to show the federal government that they first make a good-faith effort to find a qualified U.S. applicants. A decade that the U.S. Department of Labor rules requiring them to place two ads in the local paper. But they do not need to send a position online, although many job seekers are now seen there. Space has agreed to do more to help the company promote openings for U.S. workers, although the statement did not mention details.Both called on the government to create a new category for immigration guest workers. Those who enter the country on a "dual intent" visa is allowed to switch jobs easier immigration status is not tied to the employer who brought them to the U.S. and some will be eligible to apply for a green card. They also want the government to fix the number of visas made available to the needs of the market.The agreement between the offender and the union did not suggest how Washington will make it happen. Conflicts details bog down the immigration bill, which the Senate is expected to take in the summer. But look at the two ancient rivals holding hands showing personal interests may trump tough, Papademetriou said. Neither Side "strong enough to end run around one." Bottom line: An agreement between the union and business lobby calls for extending visas for foreign workers and allow several paths to citizenship.
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