The State - News from Jan. 16, 1987

Union officials announced that organizations affiliated with the AFL-CIO plan to sign agreements with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to process amnesty applications under the new immigration law. “We will have application centers,” Charles McDonald, AFL-CIO national director of organizing and field services, told a Los Angeles news conference. “The only question in my mind is will the number of application centers be enough.” Some unions, such as the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, plan to sign cooperative agreements directly with the INS. Others plan to work under the umbrella of the Human Resources Development Institute, an AFL-CIO-sponsored educational and training institute in Washington, union officials said. Steven T. Nutter, regional garment workers director in Los Angeles, said his union does not plan to charge members for its services. “My union has lots of resources,” he said.