Posted on 12/23/2011 4:12:14 PM PST by moonshinner_09
This is not going to be a Merry Christmas for many of the workers at Pacific Steel.
After a recent crackdown by the Department of Homeland Security, 200 workers who could not provide a valid social security number are being laid off.
Those let go from the third largest foundry in the United States include many highly skilled workers who have been at the company for decades.
“It’s very sad,” said spokeswoman Elisabeth Jewel from the firm Aroner, Jewel & Ellis Partners. “The employees who are being terminated now have the most seniority. Many have been there 20 to 30 years. They have kids in the public school. They pay taxes. They are fully invested in American life. It’s been a really wrenching situation – obviously for the workers – but also for the company.”
In February, Pacific Steel, which was founded in Berkeley in 1934 by the Genger family and is still family-owned, got a request by ICE, the US Immigration and Customs Authority, an agency within Homeland Security, to examine I-9 documents, said Jewel. The department came back and reported that the social security numbers of 200 of the company’s 600 workers didn’t match up.
The employees were given a chance to provide new documentation to prove they were legally working in the US. Only a few were able to do that, said Jewel. Pacific Steel has been doing rolling layoffs, keeping those with the most seniority working the longest. The last workers will be let go in January, she said.
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20 or 30 extra high payin' years of SS input?
Adios MFs!
The average employee earns about $18 an hour.
First, the company must make a practice of hiring illegals. Second, the average wage shows that it is not just low paid jobs that illegals are taking.
Well boo-hoo for them. If they had finally been caught after 20 years of robbing banks would the author still be so sympathetic? I’m sure successful bank robbers raise families, pay taxes and live the American dream also.
Jobs that Americans won’t do? I don’t think so!
They don’t use stolen ss #’s of working people. They use those to scam your bank account and rob you blind.
I’m so fed up with our fed gov blindly ignoring the crimes against US citizens. What part of ILLEGAL do they not understand?
The CEO of the company ought to do hard time— maybe 5 years per illegal!
Wait, there is a steel mill in Kalifornication? You’ve got to be kidding?
Yeah, boo hoo, I know what I did was illegal, but after all these years, why make me pay for it now.
Why is this not racism when voter ID is? It’s good to be king.
How? They have no S/S Number. Probably take a slew of deductions and pay very little.
mexico is hiring.
They were there ILLEGALLY. What part of ILLEGAL does this beyotch not want to hear?
The CEO and staff should all do hard time for this.
The unemployment rate in Mexico is less than HALF what it is here in the US!
You think illegals have no SS#?
Betcha unions pressured Homeland Security to take action. DOJ, Homeland Security and the Food Stamp President love illegals and they wouldn’t have taken any action unless some union pressured them.
Good.
Shameful that the company has been complicit in this for decades! Real Americans need work.
I bet they all vote too. GD Democrap policies...and Rinos too.
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