Carlyle Group Picketed Today
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The Low Wage Immigrant Worker Coalition hosts a picket at noon today
against the Carlyle Group's abuse of Social Security No-Match Letters to target
workers. The Carlyle Group - one of the largest private equity firms in the US -
owns Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins, two companies that require workers'
immigration status to be verified by faulty No-Match Letters and the Social
Security Administration (SSA) E-Verify database. Both E-Verify and No-Match
Letters are notoriously faulty (Tales
of Dreams Shattered by "No-Match Letters" 12/10/2007 UC () and have been
misused by employers to unjustly fire workers. Government studies have shown the
E-Verify databases to have significant errors and do not "meet requirements for
accurate verification.” And according to the Inspector General of the SSA,
more than 70 percent of the discrepancies in the SSA database relate to
native-born US citizens.