Posted on 04/13/2005 12:58:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Mexican migrant Manuel Camero, right, talks during an interview, as Michael Dale, an attorney with the Northwest Workers' Justice Project in Portland, Oregon, listens, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, in Mexico City. More than a dozen legal Mexican and Central American migrant workers recruited by U.S. companies filed a complaint Wednesday alleging they were abused and denied legal services guaranteed by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
While I certainly believe these legal migrants should be offered recourse to address their petition, please remind me, exactly what are Mexico's labor laws again? and should we enforce ours comparatively to theirs?
The sooner NAFTA is GONE, the better for the USA. Don't vote for any candidate that SUPPORTS FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS!!!!
Northwest Workers' Justice Project .. quite the assortment of leftists on the board.
http://www.nwjp.org/advisory.html
If these workers are or were legal they deserve the same treatment as any other American worker. I don't think whining to Vincente Arafat will do much good. They should bring their concerns to American courts where they're more likely to get a fair shake.
I thought SS was for US citizens. Was he trying to get a card illegally? Just curious.
Except the law that forbids illegals flooding our country.
A few years ago a hispanic co worker explained that one of the reason he was against illegals was his fear that American hispanics would begin to be treated as illegals.
No, you get an SS number on an H1B or an L1.
Thanks for the info!
He wouldn't get a SS card from his employer if he applied to the government LIKE HE'S SUPPOSED TO in the first place.
I smell a scam.
I did to except it could be an error in the story. It sounds like he was trying to get around the legal aspect of applying himself.
Oh, I dont' know.
How many criminals would you like to work next to in the factories and chain stores.
You would think that it would be an easy solution, but it would be much more complicated to do that.
How about hiring americans, say like, school kids looking to work their way through school, instead.
I don't buy the line of 'they do they jobs that americans won't).
They do the jobs that americans refuse to take 'less than minimun wage' for.
"It sounds like he was trying to get around the legal aspect of applying himself."
Then someone is selling him a bill of goods, because he has the right and responsibility to apply for a SS card.
Like I said. Sounds like a scam to me.
RIGHT ON!
Most of the jobs these immigrants are coming for a agricultural. Not mall jobs or interaction with the public sector. I grew up in California and these people are coming to work in produce at below minimum wages. I am talking about using low threat criminals for these crews. I think it could work. We use the criminals all the time to do janitorial, maintenance, landscaping etc. for government entities, the general public just isn't aware of it.
I have a real problem with Mexican courts having any "jurisdiction" against US based companies/businesses - particularly regarding employment "rights".
If someone comes here to work and doesn't like the work - go home. I'm sick of adjusting OUR country for them.
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