Interesting HB-56 development
Looks like there maybe a split in the labor’s opposition to HB-56, Alabama’s anti-immigration law according to this article at In These Times. The IBEW has declined to issue a statement condemning the bill unlike other unions.
Recall that Mickey Hammon, who introduced HB-56 is/was an electrical contractor, whose bids were undercut by those using cheap Mexican labor while IBEW local 136 business manager claims credit for the anti immigrant Jobs4Alabama website. Practical politics is a messy business AKA don’t poop where you eat.
More interesting was the response by Alabama Power to the In These Time’s post statement that utility was denying and cutting off service to illegals as the law requires.
“We have not made any changes as to how we handle or treat customers because of the new immigration law. The one incident reported that we may have turned someone away we have never been able to verify, and if it did happen, it is not our policy. Citizenship is simply not a requirement for getting service from us.”
Alabama Power has quite a bit of pull and makes for an interesting fellow traveler on the road to repeal.
