Why Business and Labor Can't Agree on an Immigrant Worker
Program  PHOTO: maid  AAGAMIA/Getty Images  Leaders from
business and labor are closer to making a deal on a new visa
that would create a legal pathway to the U.S. for some lesser-
skilled immigrant workers. An agreement would shape how an
immigration reform bill being drafted in the Senate deals with
the so-called "future flow" of workers.  One of the final
sticking points has been how to determine the pay for workers
coming to the country on the new visa.  See Also:What Happens If
Reform Ignores Future Workers?  Other areas of reform, like a
path to citizenship and increased border security, have enjoyed
some degree of bipartisan support among the senators working on
a bill. But senators are looking to the AFL-CIO and the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce -- representing labor and business,
respectively -- to give their stamp of approval to language on
how to determine the future flow of lesser-skilled immigrants.
The Senate working group included future flow