Posted on 02/24/2006 6:02:28 AM PST by WKB
Ann Coulter has her rules and Gannett has their rules. Title and link only Link in first post.
Karen Tovar, owner of KTC Services, acknowledged that she could not pay about 80 workers she had employed, noting, "There's nothing I can do until I get paid."
Tovar said she is owed $130,000 for yard cleanup and debris removal by a company called United Disaster Relief, whose manager, Zachary Johnson, said he also has not been paid in two months. Johnson said he is a subcontractor of a company controlled by Halliburton Co., which was awarded a no-bid contract for disaster relief work by the Bush administration.
"It's very chaotic down here," Tovar said. "I've been in the business for 11 years, and I never had this happen before, and I hope I never have a situation like this again. I don't know what's going on with Halliburton."
Johnson said Tovar's payroll problems were self-made. He said disaster subcontractors often go unpaid by larger contractors for months. Johnson said he told Tovar when he hired her that she needed to have enough money to pay her workers even if she was not compensated.
"I'm over a million dollars in the hole," he said. "I expect that. I feel sorry for the guys that Karen has done this. She couldn't feed her men. I gave her $40,000 out of my pocket. I decided that I would not hire her again."
Thanx for posting a follow-up on this story. Here's a clip from a 11.04.05 article:
I think I posted this under extended news
but I see some know nothing mod removed it.
When they cash the back pay checks, deduct bus/plane fare and send them home to Mexico. No illegals should have a job for pay in the USA. Enforce present laws.
No illegals should have a job for pay in the USA. Enforce present laws
No where in this article does it say
these are illegals.
Excerpt:
"Workers said KTC owner Karen Tovar threatened to report them to immigration officials after she didn't pay them all the money she owed."
The article did say they were "immigrant workers"
I am not clear on our immigration laws and I will admit it, but I was told the other day there is no provision in our immigration laws for workers to come here from other countries for blue collar, unskilled type work. I am not sure of this, I know a certain amount of green cards are issued each year and I was under the impression with a green card they could work in various jobs.
I wish someone would clear this up for me, whether or not there is a legal way to come from other countries and work regular jobs, I had always thought before that there was a legal way to do that.
Confusion on these issues is understandable, the media likes to leave out the word "illegal" even when it does apply. We have various groups with an agenda that say there is no legal way for unskilled workers to come, and that is why they cross illegally. I live on the border and worked at a Port of Entry (not in LE type job) and I do not know how it all works.
I read the whole article and can't figure out what it has to do with Ann Coulter.
There is an unwritten rule if you post an article
about Ann Coulter you MUST post pictures of her.
There is a WRITTEN rule
Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints
Received another letter from Gannett Publications, publisher of USAToday, and several other newspapers. Due to contractual arrangements they have with third-party content providers, they have denied our request to allow posting of excerpts. They will only allow the posting of titles and links.
Please do not post full text or even excerpts from the following Gannett Web sites: that if you post something from
a Gannett source you can only post the title and
a link to the article.
Get it now?
I apologize for being so stupid.
Hey it's happens to the best of us. :>)
I'm glad to see that they were finally paid.
That had to be a very hard situation for them.
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