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Haitian Workers Call for Renewal of Temporary Protected Status

UNITE HERE

This May Day, members of UNITE HERE rallied around the country for justice for all races, all religions and all immigrants. In Florida, their actions brought special attention to the plight of Haitian workers and urged the Trump administration to prevent the expiration of Temporary Protected Status for more than 50,000 Haitian nationals living and working in the United States.

"I have been in the U.S. for eight and a half years. TPS has allowed me to work legally and support my five children, two of whom are still back home in Haiti. Immigrant workers like me are the engine of the hospitality industry in south Florida," said Gerdine Verssagne, housekeeper at the Fontainebleau Resort on Miami Beach.

"Failure to renew TPS would not only break apart families and further devastate a country still recovering from natural disasters, but it would also negatively affect the hospitality industry in south Florida, which depends on the labor of many Haitian workers currently on TPS," said Rose Metellus-Denis, president of UNITE HERE Local 355. "We are calling on...

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