Immigrant workers and the right to organize (latest installment)

Rarely does a mainstream media account of a legal proceeding make the real battle lines so clear:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/372280.html

http://www.forward.com/articles/12439/

These articles describe a union organizing campaign in which the employer, a New York City slaughterhouse, actually took the position in a court of law that they didn't have to bargain with the workers' union because the members of the union--the slaughterhouse's employees--were illegal immigrants. Of course, this is the unspoken position of corporate America as a whole, but individual corporations are rarely so honest about their intentions, and the media rarely reports those intentions, preferring to present the immigration issue as a conflict between "American" workers and the "illegals" out to steal their jobs.

To top it all off, the slaughterhouse management equates the union's entirely peaceful tactics with terrorism.