On Strike Without a Union

Cygnus employees prove they are a 'pea that weighs a pound'

By Kari Lydersen

When a human resource manager told immigrant workers at the Cygnus soap and detergent factory on Chicago's far south side on July 25 that they had to prove their legal status within 15 days or be fired, they took matters into their own hands. The next day, 118 [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Of course these lowlifes can beat out a fortune 500 company. I’ve heard if you use illegal invaders you cut your competitions operating cost by around 29 percent.

    Not only that, that passes on the cost of medical and other social services onto the honest workers in the country.

    The whole lot of these people from their New York office and those hourly employees need to be rounded up and either be given the boot or time in prison!

    United States Posted by StokeyBob on Sep 12, 2007 at 6:17 AM

    No surprise here.

    OUR “representatives” have been sucking up to the illegal immigrants for years. The illegals already know they can get most of what they want just by demanding “their rights”

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Sep 12, 2007 at 1:36 PM

    whattheheck,

    I believe both major parties are controlled by the same group.

    A group of bankers and businessmen had been trying to monopolize the banking industry. In 1912 Woodrow Wilson was elected President with the aid of a bribe from them.

    They formed the Federal Reserve and are like our personal credit cards are for us except they are the credit card for the government. Well that and they pay no taxes that I know of. Anyway they

    United States Posted by StokeyBob on Sep 12, 2007 at 3:36 PM

    StokeyBob,

    Money/power or power/money

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Sep 12, 2007 at 4:52 PM

    Wow…here’s my own spurious factoid and irrelevant historical issue.

    1006 marks the year of the “Norman Invasion”

    WE all know nothing good came from that eh?

    Whattheheck…

    you are the voice over for the “Global Contagion”

    Charlton Heston like, you will narrate the variety of recourses these folks working for $6.50 cents an hour have had in the last 2 to 9 years to “legitimize’ themselves…


    these irreverent workers…

    these bastards sons of the IRS and Homeland Security.

    How dare they stand up and speak their minds!


    How dare they!

    Only you can legitimize them, and you hate their job stealing, money grubbing, undercutting, trying to raise a family guts!

    ( Even though you don’t know one person who would do their job for minimum wage and are just blowing toxic smoke out of your ass…)


    What to do?

    United States Posted by minerva_jones on Sep 12, 2007 at 10:15 PM

    minerva,

    Why should anyone do the work they do for minimum wage?

    As long as people can be had for less than minimum (definitely an oxymoron) employers will continue to exploit them. As long as labor is cheap no one will develop a method to do the job any other way.

    We would be using illegal immigrant labor to pick cotton if machinery had not replaced the cotton pickers.  Illegal immigrant labor is virtual slavery and the crap that “they do the work Americans won’t do” is designed to mollify gullible people like you appear to be.

    Try going to Mexico and “demanding” YOUR rights there — see how far you get.

    Everyone seems to know how to get something from the US politician — except the legitimate voting public.

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Sep 13, 2007 at 6:13 AM

    We were doing all of the jobs that the illegal invaders are doing now.

    That is why this side of the border looks the way it does.

    The thing is we would like this side of the border to remain looking like it does and not the way the other side looks. We’ve seen enough of it changed into a shanty towns and painted over with graffiti.

    Safety is also an issue.

    United States Posted by StokeyBob on Sep 13, 2007 at 3:35 PM

    Does anybody know anything about the microbrewery mentioned in this article?

    United States Posted by therealsully on Sep 15, 2007 at 6:07 AM
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