Subject: labor concern about our immigration work
From: "Cassandra Butts" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:13:51 -0400

Please see the following note that Brian forwarded from Bill Samuel at AFL.
I told Brian that it would be fine to put Bill in touch with me, but this
might become a bigger issue if Bill isn't overstating the "bit of panic in
the labor movement." I've communicated with the immigration working group
about the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of all non-public
information shared in the transition process, but anyone on the transition
board who received the immigration memos that have circulated could be the
culprit. We might want to reconsider how we are sharing the larger memos the
policy groups are producing.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Samuel <[email-masked]>
To: Brian Komar
Sent: Thu Oct 16 17:31:44 2008
Subject: transition - immigration

there is a bit of panic in the labor movement about a rumor that the
immigration transition team is circulating a paper calling for a massive new
temporary worker program. I don't want to bother Podesta about it; is it an
issue I can raise with Cassandra? Do you have her number?