The proposals have bitterly divided the Republican Party between those who see immigrant labor as a pillar of the American economy, and those who view it as a burden, even a threat.
In doing so, the laws tend to drive down union membership and weaken organized labor ― a pillar of the Democratic Party ― which helps explain why Republican-dominated states have become so eager to institute them lately.
But hold on a minute... the other side quickly pipes in, "What part of collapsing industries don't you understand?" Immigrant labor is the pillar upon which many industries leans.
A century and a quarter earlier, the great center court had accommodated a steady traffic of people, mules, horses and dogs — to the stables, or the saddle room, the kitchen and other centers of labor behind stone pillars on all four sides.
Though union membership has dwindled significantly, labor unions remain a pillar of the Democratic base.
Labor unions remain a pillar of the Democratic base, and most of them will wait before throwing their weight behind a particular Democratic candidate.
Like Deep Springs, the Arete Project offers an alternative to the standard model of American higher education, one defined by three "pillars": physical labor, academics, and self-governance.
The media, the church, the university, the Democratic Party, the arts, and labor unions--the pillars of the liberal class--have been bought off with corporate money and promises of scraps tossed to them by the narrow circles of power.
Critics accuse the government of cutting wages and pensions while failing to adequately address rampant tax evasion or take on the powerful labor unions that remain a pillar of the Socialists' power base.
But he also shrewdly nurtured that trend, courting labor unions and Hispanics, normally Democratic pillars.
