Labor leaders meet to discuss Mexican immigrant workers’ rights - Dallas

It’s a critical time in the U.S. with an enthusiasm for politics unseen in decades, and that’s given muscle to the Latino vote, said a U.S. labor leader Wednesday at a conference of Mexican immigrant leaders.

“In over 40 years of organizing, I’ve never seen this level of interest and it will be good for this democracy,” said Eliseo Medina, the executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, one of the largest labor groups in the U.S.”*

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