Brooklyn workers strike on Day Without Immigrants
Anti-Trump protest set for cities across U.S.
The nationwide Day Without Immigrants strike on Thursday to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies was also expected to have significant support in Brooklyn, where members of nonprofit group Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) planned to join the 24-hour work stoppage to send a message to the White House.
In a letter to the community WJP Executive Director Ligia Guallpa wrote that the group’s members are taking part in Day Without Immigrants to show their solidarity with immigrant co-workers and to “show the collective power of the Latino immigrant community.”
The WJP operates the Bay Parkway Community Job Center, an employment program that helps bring together employers looking for workers and day laborers seeking employment as construction workers, gardeners, house cleaners and other positions. Many of the jobseekers are Latino immigrants.