Eliseo Medina
Eliseo Medina
Eliseo Vasquez Medinais a Mexican American labor union activist and leader, and advocate for immigration reform in the United States. From 1973 to 1978, he was a board member of the United Farm Workers. He is currently secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union. He was previously an international executive vice president, the first Mexican American to serve on the union's executive board. Medina announced his resignation as an SEIU executive vice president effective October 1, 2013...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 January 1946
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If Congress fails to act, we will deliver our message in the ballot boxes come November. We will continue to march and speak out until the President signs a comprehensive immigration bill into law that works for all working people in this country.
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People with rights are infinitely in a better position than people who have no rights.
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But right now, we are seeing hundreds of leaders coming together. Many of them are people nobody had ever heard of. This organic organization will outlive any one charismatic figure.
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We've asked all of our local unions to get their members involved.
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We're basically looking at it through different lenses. There's a difference of vantage points.
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We march in the streets, but we will also march to the voting booth in November.
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We are going to need more people to take care of older people. Nursing homes and assisted living is going to be huge in terms of the need for workers.
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Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.