For Immediate Release
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Public Hearing to Highlight Employer Abuse of Immigrant Workers
Day Workers and University of Maryland College Park Employees to Testify
COLLEGE PARK, MD —Casa de Maryland and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), are sponsoring a public hearing to highlight the on the job abuse and harassment many immigrant workers in Maryland face.
A day worker from Prince George's County and two housekeepers from the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) are set to testify on Thursday, September 4 at 4:00 p.m. The hearing will take place on the campus of UMCP in the Nyumburu Cultural Center, room 0130.
State and county elected officials are expected to attend and hear first hand about the disrespect, inequality, hostility and mistreatment that immigrant workers are dealing with.
AFSCME and Casa de Maryland are also participating in the upcoming Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. Immigrant workers and their allies will set out from nine major U.S. cities and cross the country in buses latter this month. They will converge on Washington, D.C. to meet with members of Congress and then travel to Liberty State Park in New Jersey on October 3, and then head to Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York for a mass rally on October 4.
| WHAT/WHO: | Immigrant workers day workers & housekeeping staff from UMCP Casa de Maryland The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees |
| WHEN: | Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:00 p.m. |
| WHERE: | University of Maryland College Park Campus Nyumburu Cultural Center Room 0130 |
