Posted on 04/21/2006 9:19:15 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever
Statement by IFCO 21.04.2006 16:09:00
IFCO SYSTEMS today released the following statementregarding information presented yesterday at a U.S. Immigration andCustoms Enforcement press conference in Washington: As it is IFCO's policy to comply with all federal and stateemployment provisions, we take the allegations made by U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) very seriously and arecommitted to resolving this matter as soon as possible. We are verydisturbed by these allegations and have immediately begun a thoroughinvestigation of the facts.
The activities and attitudes outlined in the allegations arecounter to everything we stand for at IFCO. We have the highestrespect for our nation's employment and citizenship laws and arecommitted to complying with them.
IFCO is the industry leader with a business model built on theefficiencies of our logistics systems and physical network and we aredeeply committed to our employees. We are proud to offer a level ofcompensation and benefits to our employees that many of our peers donot. These include competitive wages, workers' compensation insurance,affordable health insurance, 401k, and various other benefits.
We are cooperating fully with ICE and other authorities includingvoluntarily allowing ICE to visit many of our facilities this pastWednesday. We are now working to understand the facts and willimplement any additional changes necessary to further improve ourcurrent procedures. So that we will be able to move forward withconfidence, we have begun an internal investigation that will beheaded by outside counsel. Pending the outcome of our investigation,the local IFCO managers arrested Wednesday have been placed ontemporary leave from the company. In cooperation with ICE, we will bereviewing the status of our temporarily detained hourly workers acrossthe country on a case by case basis.
All of our facilities are in operation and we are workingdiligently to meet all of our customers' needs.
-bw-
"Ve are verry sorry ve got caught violating your silly laws. Ve hope you von't destroy our company and put it's officers in jail. Ve aren't very good at picking up zee zoap vizout bending over. Zat is all."
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Well, at least people cannot say that ICE administrator
Julie Myers is not doing her job !
Busting IFCO for hiring all of these illegal alien workers is a definite step in the right direction . .
"...assistant publisher of the trade magazine Pallet Enterprise."
Amazing, all the magazines there are!
Thanks for posting this link, it's part of what makes FR the best site on the web.
Best scene in "The Aviator" has Howard Hughes telling Katherine Hepburn's rich-lib family that he only has time to read the aviation and engineering trade magazines - which they pooh-poohed. He was a doer/producer while they lived on inheritance. The relevant point is that he educated himself through reading the trades and picking up info from the more-knowledgable people he encountered.
But you surprised me...who would imagine a magazine centered around banging boards together for the sole purpose of sustaining weight during transport?
Well since Meyers has only been on the job about 6 months and the investigation began a year ago we can say she didn't stop the investigation.
Busting IFCO for hiring all of these illegal alien workers is a definite step in the right direction .
Yes a baby step so far..why was ICE prevented from sacking up the illegal alien demonstrators? There are thousands of employers of millions of aliens, a task force hitting one employer a day would be nice or once per week or per month, once every 5 years is just a dog and pony show...I will wait for the follow up and for results before my hopes rise.
FOLLOW-UP !
I posted my latest thread and the one you responded to,
because I think that Julie L. Myers has been unfairly targeted by both the Right and Left, in the aftermath of the Katrina/Brown/FEMA incident .
She has been ridiculed alot !
Some of the critiques are legit, but they have gotten so personal(check out Debbie Schlussel's web-log) .
Well, Great Ploar Bear - -
at least you are not scapegoating Julie Myers :-)
By the by, she is an attractive lady, is she not ?
:-)
Great 'Polar' Bear
"Well, at least people cannot say that ICE administrator Julie Myers is not doing her job !"
She is going to get her department started planning for their next raid, sometime in a couple of years.
I think I spoke to soon !
According to Debbie Schlussel, that raid at IFCO was more for show than anything else !
Boy oh boy, does Schlussel hate Myers !
And the Kodiak Bear of Alaska, is the world's largest bear !
Surprisingly not written in Spanish.
Right.
And who knows? Maybe some day -- maybe even within some of our lifetimes -- they'll even go after an American company that employs criminal aliens!
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