Workers at the Palermo?s Pizza factory in Milwaukee have been on strike for two months after over 80 employees were fired for what workers claim was retaliation for unionization efforts. The company is countering that the dismissed workers, all of them immigrants, were fired for being unable to provide documentation of their legal immigration status, in response to a warning from immigration officials that it had hired illegal immigrants. The issue highlights how President Obama?s tougher stance on immigration enforcement can derail unionization efforts. Labor unions across the country have called for a boycott of the factory?s products in solidarity with Palermo?s employees.
See "Workers go on strike in pizza factory fight", Steven Greenhouse and Steven Yaccino, Bend Bulletin, July 29, 2012