Posted on 05/06/2006 8:57:31 AM PDT by Racehorse
. . . immigration is becoming just as sensitive an issue in the corner office. As emotions heat up on both sides of the debate, the stance that companies take can affect their relations with customers, suppliers, and employees. The stakes are particularly high for companies with large exposure to Hispanics.
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More common, however, were companies reluctant to take any public stance. On May 1, a large Target store in Jersey City, N.J., where many of the employees are Latino, had to make do with far fewer hands than usual. However, the manager of the store wouldn't give out any specifics about the number of employees who didn't turn up. He would not identify himself by name and referred BusinessWeek Online to a media-inquiries telephone number at headquarters in Minneapolis. Calls to that number were not returned.
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The business risks are steep. Consider the case of Kimberly-Clark, the paper-products giant that makes everything from Kleenex to Huggies. Some Hispanics are advocating a boycott of the company's products, because James Sensenbrenner, a Republican congressman from Wisconsin who has advocated a crackdown on illegal immigration, has financial ties to the company.
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Some companies reported that the May Day protests caused little disruption in their businesses. . . .
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Still, the immigration issue has been brought to the fore in recent months, and businesses, large and small, are wrestling with the proper response. Art Carlson, a painting and plastering contractor based in Tivoli, N.Y., employs a crew of four, including two immigrants, a Mexican and a Slovakian. He said he gave every one the option of taking the day off without penalty. The Mexican, the highest-paid member of Carlson's crew, stayed home. The Slovakian chose to work.
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What is a business to do? Obey the immigration laws is the first thought coming easily to mind. But, that's not what most of Cavuto's panel focused on.
Faced with a boycott or problems with employees, to whom does a company owe loyalty? Stockholders? Or, their fellow citizens? What if the company is foreign owned?
And those companies deserve all the hell they will have to pay for hiring illegals, they are criminals who broke into the U.S.
If the wall street pimps think that foreign nationals who decided to break into this country is a good thing than how do they feel about the illegals threatening to shut down the economy?
Wait till the illegals get the amnesty that wall street is pushing for and demand high wages and benefits etc plus welfare benefits what are the employers who are breaking laws along with the illegals going to do than?
Cracks me up, these companies are concerned about being boycotted by illegal aliens and their supporters but not by legal American citizens.
Look at the numbers stupidos!
Companies have one and only one rule of business and that is THE LOVE OF MONEY screw the law do what it take to make a buck.
Right and I'm not opposed to them making money I am however opposed to hiring people who have broken into this country illegally and ignoring American consumer/workers and breaking laws to make the almighty buck.
Stockholders because of fiduciary responsibility.
"If the wall street pimps think that foreign nationals who decided to break into this country is a good thing than how do they feel about the illegals threatening to shut down the economy?"
They live behing guarded gated estates. They are blind and/or indifferent to what the rest of us put up with. I am finished with Barnes and Kondrake, as they are pro illegal immigration too!. So are a number of other Fox News Flunkies!
Fox News has been absolutely disappointing on the illegal invader issue. The beltway boys have Kondrake as the liberal and fred barnes as the slightly less liberal on the issue.
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"Faced with a boycott or problems with employees, to whom does a company owe loyalty? Stockholders? Or, their fellow citizens? What if the company is foreign owned?"
This is the road toward globalism. If companies have only allegiance to the dollar and none toward America or American citizens then they are enemies of the American people.
Strange comment regarding the use of computers to express thoughts, exchange ideas, and to learn from others. Or, did you mean something else? Clearly, you seem to find some value to pecking at a keyboard and then clicking the "post" icon.
Forged documents.
Let's say you're right, and I most definitely believe you are. I heard, but do not know as fact, that government agencies will not tell others that they suspect documents like social security numbers are fraudulent. It is the duty of a company to comply with the law. It ought to be the duty of government to make compliance as easy as possible.
Supply and Demand
Do not businesses employing illegal workers artificially manipulate the curve?
We look at what this president and the government has done to U.S. citizens for the sake of their hairy necks and the almighty dollar, and we wonder how this has been allowed to happen. I will probably be paying alot more for yard work since I told my Caucasian company that no illegal aliens are to work on my yard, but so be it. All companies who hire illegals should be boycotted by U.S. citizens, and painfully fined by our so called government.
If the laws are enforced, the invaders will go home on their own account, and this country will be a healthier one all the way around. No more deals with Fox, Mr. President!
The employers of the illegal Aliens should be arrested and sent on a Honeymoon to Rahway State Prisoner!
Then you will see the job market dry up & the illegals will go back to el Presentente Vincente Foxe!
Faced with a boycott or problems with employees, to whom does a company owe loyalty?
Stockholders because of fiduciary responsibility.
To me, without regulation, that is precisely the bind they find themselves in.
Few are as brutally honest as Exxon/Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, "''We answer to our stockholders. We are in business to make money.''
Who wants to introduce new laws, new regulations, and new bureaucracies to administer and enforce them? So, it seems to me, to avoid those negatives, showing loyalty to the American national interest best serves their stockholders.
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