Unions, Business Reach Accord on Guest-Worker Visa Needs
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Labor leaders and the nation’s largest business lobby called for a new visa program to let U.S. companies hire foreign workers for jobs Americans aren’t available to fill, signaling progress on a critical component of immigration law revisions being debated in Washington.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, representing the nation’s biggest organized labor federation, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donohue also said today that the government should create a research bureau to crunch employment and other data to help identify future U.S. labor shortages and ways to address them.