Posted on 05/17/2006 11:34:23 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
SOUTHEAST TEXAS INDUSTRIES SAYS IT HAS EXHAUSTED EFFORTS TO FIND QUALIFIED WORKERS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES SAY THEY'VE BEEN FORCED TO GO ACROSS THE BORDER TO SEEK OUT EMPLOYEES. THE COMPANY'S ATTORNEY PETITIONED THE VIDOR CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT TO ALLOW THEM TO HOUSE UP TO 100 DOCUMENTED MEXICAN WORKERS ON SITE
If they can't get them for $18.00/hr, then they should PAY MORE!
I seached to see if it was posted already -- nothing came up
Jobs in the fast-food industry up there start at around $12/hour.
This headline is a LIE. The article clearly says these will be "documented workers" NOT Illegals.
I guess some just see Mexicans and their minds go numb.
Hard to believe the company cannot find workers at that rate though.
You might want to clean your keyboard. It appears there is something causing your caps lock key to stick. You might also want to check out the meaning of documented vs undocumented workers. This company is trying to legally hire 100 LEGAL guest workers.
Try Southwest Texas. Or North Texas. or Oklahoma or Maine...
Sheesh. Any ruse to inflow the illegals.
I'd like to review their "efforts" too.
Hard to believe the company cannot find workers at that rate though.
Especially when US citizens are lining up for $9/hr. jobs around here. Could it be something "else", like no place for these workers to stay? Or perhaps unsafe working conditions? Usually there's "the rest of the story" to these whines about "jobs Americans won't do".
Caps are the result of direct cut&paste from the new site.
Honestly, how many of those 100 will be illegal?
You might also want to consider using the actual title of the article and doing a search using key words from the actual title. The actual title of the article from your link was Unions Oppose Hiring of Mexican Workers by Vidor Business. A search on the phrase "Unions Oppose Hiring" returns the following results:
Unions Oppose Hiring of Mexican Workers by Vidor Business
Posted by Arcy
On News/Activism 05/17/2006 7:29:38 AM CDT · 38 replies · 715+ views
Channel 6 KFDM ^ | May 11,2006
Unions Oppose Hiring of Mexican Workers by Vidor Business (Texas)
Posted by mlc9852
On News/Activism 05/17/2006 8:25:45 AM CDT · 17 replies · 393+ views
kfdm.com ^ | May 17, 2006 | Camille Briggs
~$37,000.00 a year not bad, either the union was keeping folks away hoping for more, or there are no benefits, or both, but even so not bad money. I will be interested to see if they pickup some applicants over the next few days now that the word is out.
It's because they're in VIDOR, TX. No minority with any knowledge of that place or with the good sense God gave them will go there. I sure wouldn't, for ANY PRICE.
SE Industries should've thought of this before they located in Vidor.
Your bogus title wasn't the result of cut&paste though, was it?
Vidor was in the news a number of years ago as being one of the only communities in the US that had NO black residents. Totally by the black people's choice, according to the town manager, they were perfectly welcome, but none chose to move there.
Don't know if this anomaly has anything to do with that one, but it makes ya go hmmmm...
What does this company do? Bottle cyanide?
Hard to believe the company cannot find workers at that rate though. . .
As much as some parts of the country are going to find this hard to believe, we do have a tremendous labor shortage down here in South Florida. Our county's unemployment rate is 3% and for the life of me I can't see who the 3% is.
We took THREE MONTHS just to hire a receptionist. Our city library is now over a year past due on its construction deadline because we can't get either supplies or labor to complete the building.
I feel bad about the parts of the country that are having difficulties like the Midwest and some parts of the Northeast, but this is more of a problem down here that many of you seem to be willing to acknowledge. I don't want open borders and would certainly want many more border guards, but we also need some rational way to increase our labor pool here.
It's well known in Texas as the headquarters of the KKK.
I think Michigan is the only state in the Midwest with unemployment problems. Likely they would go away should the Unions be removed from the scene.
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