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 workers walked out and formed a picket line, going on strike even though… return to article
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Reader Comments (8)Page 1 of 1 pagesOf 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!
Posted by StokeyBob on Sep 12, 2007 at 1:17 PM 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” — picture how it will be once they get amnesty.
Yesterday on C-SPAN Byron Dorgan, one of a very small number of people trying to enforce protective laws which took generations to get, told of the idiotic bill to allow Mexican truckers free access to our highways.
There will be no inspections or varification of drivers abilities, of vehicle safety compliance or cargo inspection.
All kinds of seatbelt and infant seat BS, but who gives a damn if Pedro is driving with bad breaks or hauling toxic or explosive loads?
We would do no worse if we chose our congress by lottery.
Posted by whattheheck on Sep 12, 2007 at 8:36 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’re at about at their 100-year anniversary.
They have grown to proportions that I believe they now control many of the politicians of the world. Not only can they buy politicians of both parties here, and control our borders, they can also control much of our spending.
Have you ever wondered why our once great nation has been spending money the way it does. It is sort of like how it would be to have a hundred wives on your credit cards and all of them dating those that own the credit card companies.
They make money when they lend money.
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.
Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation,
therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world.
No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by
conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by
the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”-Woodrow Wilson
Posted by StokeyBob on Sep 12, 2007 at 10:36 PM StokeyBob,
Money/power or power/money — each one attracts the other.
I have read very little about Wilson, but believe he had a stroke and died not too many years after leaving office. The quote you posted would make it likely that he was truly depressed with the failure to achieve his goals and felt used.
The current subprime mess is just the latest in a long history of creative accounting scams foisted on the public. This one is worse than most due to the global contagion.
Even though I believe people should be alert to deals which seem too good to be true, we do have agencies and congressional oversight committees charged with the responsibility to prevent things of this magnitude. After the fact investigations should be of those people, not just the lenders.
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BTW — that should be bad brakes, not “bad breaks” in my previous post.
Posted by whattheheck on Sep 12, 2007 at 11:52 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?
Posted by minerva_jones on Sep 13, 2007 at 5:15 AM 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.
Posted by whattheheck on Sep 13, 2007 at 1:13 PM 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.
Posted by StokeyBob on Sep 13, 2007 at 10:35 PM Does anybody know anything about the microbrewery mentioned in this article?
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