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The California Immigrant Workers Association (CIWA) was a group created by labor unions in California in the wake of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Its main goal was to associate immigrant workers and integrate them to the labor movement through amnesty. == Origins == The California Immigrant Workers Association (CIWA) was a program by the AFL-CIO in Los Angeles, California intended to help Latino workers to obtain amnesty through the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA).It was founded in that same year by twenty-one unions affiliated to the AFL-CIO and six central labor councils. They had Jose de Paz, a well-known activist, as the Executive Director. The program required a special membership called “Associate Membership” which was automatically obtained by simply joining the CIWA. Even though the program was for immigrant workers, it was mainly targeted towards those workers who had been residing for a long time in the United States and not for workers who had recently arrived into the country. Despite the fact that the CIWA was affiliated to the AFL-CIO, it did not have the power of a union. Nevertheless, the members of the CIWA were people with experience organizing Latinos. They spoke the same language, understood the culture and knew immigration law and the problems of the labor movement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「California Immigrant Workers Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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