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Immigrants Workers

Final project. by Bryan Ash Project Manager Jigar Patel Writing Manager Ghizlane Regragui Power Point manager & Samuel Then Wiki manager supervisors MS Greco, & Mr. Danner  2010-2011. Immigrants Workers. PLAN. PLAN. JOBS. BRYAN. JOBS -1-. Janitors Painters (non – union)

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Immigrants Workers

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  1. Final project byBryan AshProject ManagerJigar PatelWriting Manager Ghizlane RegraguiPower Point manager&Samuel ThenWiki managersupervisors MS Greco, & Mr. Danner 2010-2011 Immigrants Workers

  2. PLAN

  3. PLAN

  4. JOBS BRYAN

  5. JOBS -1- • Janitors • Painters (non – union) • House Cleaning • Wash Dishes • Pick Lettuce • Landscaping • Rubbish Collection • Door Step Services

  6. JOBS -2- • Only jobs that Americans don’t want to do. • Dramatic increase in the supply of unskilled workers. • 31% of high school dropouts in labor union are immigrants.

  7. JOB GROWTH -1-

  8. JOB GROWTH -2-

  9. WELFARE • Immigrants on welfare is 50% higher then U.S citizens • Ratio of Immigrants and U.S citizens on welfare is 1/7 • Food Stamps, WIC (Women, Infants, and Children), SSI (Supplemental Security Income)

  10. IMMIGRATION JIGAR

  11. IMMIGRATION • U.S was and still is the main attraction for immigrants •  Immigrants from all over the world came to America in search of • educational advancement • political or religious freedom • increased work opportunities.

  12. IMMIGRATION IN THE PAST • 1840s and 1850s, more than 4.5 million immigrants arrived in the country • After Civil War, immigrants were needed to  fuel industrial and economic expansion • Between 1860 and 1900, around 14 million immigrants arrived • In the next 30 years over 19 millions joined them

  13. U.S POPULATION GROUTH BY DECADE

  14. Highly Skilled Immigrants • In the major cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco, more immigrants are employed in white-collar occupations than in lower-wage work like construction, manufacturing or cleaning. • More than half of the working immigrants in the metropolitan area hold higher-paying jobs. USA 20 MILES

  15. WORKFORCE • Foreign-born workers make up an estimated 14% of the U.S. workforce. • When President Bush came to office, he tried to change immigration issue by: • requiring that most guest workers take jobs Americans do not want-such as jobs in the service sector, light manufacturing or agriculture.

  16. WORKFORCE -2- • According to the U.S. Labor Department, the percentage of foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor force had grown • 7 % in 1980 • 9.3% in 1990 • 12.3 % in 2000

  17. FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION IN 2000 • In 1993, one-third of the nation's population growth came from immigration • According to 2000 Census, more than 31 million U.S. residents are foreign-born, about 10% of the country’s population • There are also additional eight to ten million illegal immigration currently living and working in the U.S.

  18. FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION IN 2000 -2-

  19. IMMIGRATION WORKERS SAMUEL

  20. IMMIGRANTS WORKERS Immigrants: • Often compelled to take the least desirable and most dangerous jobs. • Such as minimum-wage positions in the meat-packing and garment industries. • Those jobs can lead ergonomic injuries. • Hazardous construction jobs can lead to death.

  21. IMMIGRANT WORKERS BARRIERS • Immigrants may have problems: • learning about safety due to language barriers. • legal recourse or assert their rights because of • concerns about their immigration status. • Supporters maintain that: • Immigrants are often isolated from the rest of society. • Their deaths attract less attention and cause less outrage • than the deaths of others.

  22. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Illegal immigrant work in bad conditions Employers are aware of such conditions and exploit them by cutting corners on safety standards.

  23. SAFTEY ISSUES • A fired kill 146 of the 500 women employed. • Because the doors to the factory were blocked so that women would remain in at their sewing machine.

  24. IMMIGRANTS SAFTEY Occupational Safety and Health Administration Is a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment. 

  25. IMMIGRANT AND SWETSHOPS -1- Half of the 22,000 garment factories in the U.S. are sweatshops. Immigrants work long for extremely low pay. One-third of those factory violate workplace health and safety laws.

  26. IMMIGRANT AND SWETSHOPS -2- • The huge wave of immigrants that came to the U.S. in the latter 19th rise the numbers of sweatshops. • Immigrants were ideal to work in sweatshops because they were desperately poor. • They were afraid to complain about the conditions because the needed their job.

  27. IMMIGRANTS FATALITIES OSHA showed a slight decline in work-related fatalities overall. But an increase among Hispanic workers. Most of those who died were found to be immigrants.

  28. ORGANISATIONS IMPROVEMENTS • OSHA initiated a task force to try to devise ways to reach out to Hispanic and Immigrants workers. • Safety instruction in Spanish • Increased contact with emergency responders to ensure that injuries are reported to OSHA

  29. DV LOTTERY, WORKERS DEBATE & BUSINESS ISSUES GHIZLANE

  30. Win the American Dream! DV LOTTERY PROGRAM: DEFINITON • DV Lottery Program: is a program conducting by the US Government. • Every year, Program Grants 50,000 visas to people all around the world. • All 50,000 Winners are issued a US GREEN CARD authorizing them and their families to live and work in the United States!

  31. Win the American Dream! ELIGIBILITY To APPLAY FOR DV LOTTERY

  32. Win the American Dream! THE HIGER NUMBER OF WINNERS FROM EACH CONTINENTS

  33. Win the American Dream! • AFTER SELECTION THE WINNERS

  34. THE IMMIGRANTS & BUSINESS

  35. AMERICANS & IMMIGRANTS WORKERS DEBATE • the Immigrants workers are taking jobs away from them. Or do they fill the jobs that Americans do not want? • The companies want to make money they will pay less and people from other countries who want a better life won't care how much they will pay as long as they get the job. please click here to watch the video

  36. AMERICANS & IMMIGRANTS WORKERS DEBAT -2-

  37. CITATION Jigar Patel:1.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/us/16skilled.html– Newspaper article from the BFIT Newspaper Source (New York Times) (USING)2.http://www.2facts.com/article/i0702280Article from BFIT library Database 3.http://www.2facts.com/article/i0900190Article from BFIT library Database 4.http://www.2facts.com/article/i0100280Article from BFIT library Database 5.http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20030124ar02p1.htm5 minutes – Government website Bryan Ash:1.http://www.2facts.com/article/i12001702.http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=14773.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration-and-emigration/index.htmlSamuel H. Then:1.http://www.2facts.com/article/i0702280Article from the BFIT data base2.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.htmlGovernment Website3.http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/17.html PBS Website Ghizland Regragui:1.http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1918144621&sid=5&Fmt=3&clientId=40852&RQT=309&VName=PQDNewspaper article from the BFIT Newspaper Source (Boston Glob) 2.http://ng.usagc.org/www-dvlottery-state-gov.htmlGovernment web site3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orktmmbjBSAvideo from www.youtube.com

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