Pink Slips Greet Returning Soldiers

World Net Daily ^ | December 27, 2003 | Timothy W. Maier

[sauropod]

I know that to be the case w/ private sector jobs. Not sure wrt governmint jobs. It should be, tho we all know how gubbermint likes to exempt itself from the rules the rest of us have to follow.

[Ciexyz]

On the advice of my attorney, I filed a USERRA claim with the veterans' section of the US Department of Labor, Pittsburgh office. The result was just as described in the article: my federal agency refused to grant credence to my complaint, and the OSC refused to prosecute.

This shit makes me sick. I feel so bad for these returning veterans!

How do we find justice when federal officials are in a hurry to clean off their desks, as in, wipe away your case just to satisfy the federal agency.

[aruanan]

When U.S. Army Maj. Joe Cherry left his federal job at the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago because he was called up to fight the war in Iraq he received an unexpected going-away present. The major wouldn't have to worry whether his government job would be there when he returned - the federal government made that decision for him, firing him on the spot.

Gee, there was someone else in Chicago who was fired, until the company was reminded that it was illegal to fire someone because their active duty military service kept them off the job.

[Petronski]

A great idea, except for the yellow text. Yellow-on-pink is almost impossible to read.

[autoresponder]

You are right

"hotpink" on pale Yeller with a red-border might be better

"hotpink" stands put better than standard Netscape "pink"

Needs some fine tuning and monitoring to make sure submitted companies and government agencies are not bogus to hurt the good guys

Union Jean and Apparel makes 100% USA denims and shirts and khakis:

[I do not work for Union Jean or own ant of their *stock - *YET]

http://www.unionjeancompany.com/

I am not a "pro-Union" buff, but I*ll bet the buttons don*t need to be resewed with good cotton USA thread (I used 20 year old thread!) like the blasted Levis "red-tag" blue denim shirt I bought that said "Nothing is more American than LEVIS" on the LEVIS insdide collar label......

But "Made in (RED) China" on the tiny material content tag hidden to the side and "Made in China" on the back side of it so most would never see it!

Union prices looked decent and the workers are here in the USA; not a $2 shirt cost made in a 3rd world country selling here for full mark-up and price!

I*d imagine "Union" jeans are meant to take the stress of construction work and working under your PU and after tossing in the washer can be worn Friday nights with a jacket like I usually do.

Grew up in American made LEVIS, wore suits soon after that and like Laura and GW I now try to wear jeans instead of trying to impress others with uncomfortable slacks or suits when I can now.

No, not boots like GW, I mostly wear tassle loafers or high-tops except when at the ranch on a horse.

I have good website, but editing/adding "bad-actors" is hard on that set-up and my others run outta bandwidth quickly and visitors cannot get access for a few hours.

Shortly I*ll have a better arrangement and be able to oput in a self-sustaining (no losses!) site with unlimited bandwidth and visitor access.

That is what one webhost is promising me anyway.

Names and surnames should be kept off such a website to avoid the attorney scunbags; only company names and divisions and government agencies names.

I can make it "hacker-proof" in minutes.

Try to hack me and you*ll end up at an FBI website leaving your ISP and #s with John Ashcroft*s "cookie-monster" tracking your butt and where you go.........

Or I can "ping-pong" them all over the globe and they will have to shut down their computers, but not before I grab their specs and locations and what is in ther fridge.

Then to the FBI websites........

[crz]

Yea I suppose they did fail to pay. And niether did I pay. The first place is I did not ask nor did I want him working overtime. Wanna know what happened to the SOB that did this? He is now unemployed and will never find a job around here...word spreads you know and being on a black list is a bitch.

[Ciexyz]

Hi joesnuffy, you posted this article, how do you feel about this travesty of justice that our veterans aren't getting their jobs back after they're called up for war?

[OldBlondBabe]

I heard the same thing about Sears...maybe I heard it on Paul Harvey or read it in the Journal. It was at least six months ago...

[Ciexyz]

I'm forwarding this thread to Joe Scarborough and Bill O'Reilly, maybe they'll do a feature on it.