Posted on 06/22/2006 11:24:28 PM PDT by JamesGreer
Officials are now having to lay off some of the bosses who manage those firefighting crews because the bosses are not bilingual. Many of the newer hires in Oregon only speak Spanish.
The state said all bosses must speak the same language of their crew on the fire lines for safety reasons. They want to make sure that the leader of the crews can quickly communicate during an emergencey if the fire turns or if there is another problem on the fire lines.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
Wherever you go thoroughly check out the schools if you have kids. Some places are good but they are very, very few and very,very far between. Be prepared to hit the hip for private/parochial or home schooling.
Also, NC has a miserable tax situation but if you are coming from the NE it s/n be too bad. The property taxes in Charlotte are the highest in the SE. For a number of reasons I would stay out of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County if at all possible.
Free market. If you can't handle the job qualifications TOUGH SH-T! Even if it requires knowing another language.
Retract earlier post.
Yep. Oregon state handles the hiring of fire crews (normally through contractors) in the NW region, while the equipment like air tankers and such are supplied by the feds...
I wonder what Dubya would say.
Would his "English First" stance approve or disapprove of this marginalizing
of "english only" employees?
I shudder to think that the President I voted for didn't have the
courtesy to tell me I MUST fork over the $300 for a Rosetta Stone
course in Spanish when I cast my first ballot for him in 2000.
I wonder what Dubya would say.
Would his "English First" stance approve or disapprove of this marginalizing
of "english only" employees?
I shudder to think that the President I voted for didn't have the
courtesy to tell me I MUST fork over the $300 for a Rosetta Stone
course in Spanish when I cast my first ballot for him in 2000.
Now THAT is some lofty reasoning!
/sarc
Translated to Spanish
QLC?!?!
Thanks for that. It's good to get some local info.
Nothing the lunatics, in charge of the PC state of Oregon, do really surprises me any more.
The state has been on a downward path to PC hell for about 2 decades now.
I think God that we had enough sense to realize how PC the the state had become in 1996 when I took early retirement. We had thought about moving to Brookings at that time or maybe Medford. Those cities/counties are basically conservative, but the lunatics lefties in Portland and Salem control the state.
Our older son advised us to subscribe to the Oregonian for a year before we decided to move. It took about 2 months of reading Pravda West to realize that they and the rest of the Oregon MSM were leading Oregon straight to PC Hell!
Our recovering liberal son will be leaving Portland sometime next month. He realizes that it is basically impossible for any business to survive in Portland unless they become a left wing organization and can suck off the tax teats to stay afloat.
We need to establish the State of Jefferson comprised of Southern Oregon and Northern Califonia north of the Bay Area and Sacremento. It would be a very conservative state, full of good people and workers in one of the most beautiful areas of the world. Without the lunatic control from Portland and Sacramento, the new state of Jefferson would thrive.
Hey more job opportunities for La Raza.
"So typically Oregon!"
Amen, Brother!
Please see my reply above.
"I take it back, it is the STATE of Oregon that is requiring this. OK, now they can GO TO HELL (the state of Oregon that is). Retract earlier post."
Good! I was ready to notify Jim Rob that you had apparently been kidnapped by illegal UFO aliens, and they replaced you with a liberal!:)
Seems we need a federal law to PREVENT firing for not learning a second language of illegals.
This is pure insanity and is intended to push out the non-hispanics.
This is not about language, this is about union politics. It must be the way democrats think they can rebuild by giving government jobs to the "immigrants".
"Sounds like discrimination to me. If ever there was a time for a lawsuit..."
This is an outrage and I can't say it enough......whenever possible, we MUST start looking into filing RICO lawsuits against any entities (including employers and non-employers) who's policies ENCOURAGE illegal immigration. It would certainly seem to me that favoring Spanish over English and subsequently the loss of a job by an American vs. an illegal, is certainly worth looking into.
"The Chicago-based lawyer (Hoaward Foster) has almost single-handedly spearheaded the use of RICO statutes as a tool against illegal immigration. A member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that advocates immigration restrictions, Foster took note when Congress toughened immigration laws in 1996 and amended the RICO statute to make knowing employment of illegal immigrants a violation."
Howard W. Foster.......
http://www.johnsonandbell.com/attorney/biographies/foster.html
I'm glad to hear your son is getting the heck outta here.
I wish I could go with him.
However, the illegal issue will be big in the Gov.'s race.
There's talk that the current 'Rat occupying that office is in trouble.
Maybe Howard Foster will step up to the plate on the Oregon law. Somebody needs to before they start displacing everyone who doesn't know the language of an illegal alien, who shouldn't even be hired in the first place.
Some Oregon officials should be fired for hiring illegal aliens.""
Sure sounds like you are correct. I would like to know exactly where this occurred.
The liberals of Oregon are sending that state into oblivion.
Just what the citizens of Oregon don't need-
What about the fire crews trying to communicate with the residents who are in jeopardy????? Is this what paying your taxes is all about???
Here comes a fire:
Here comes the fire crews:
Where is the safe exit route???:
Resident cannot communicate with fire crew and makes a deadly decision in trying to flee fire:
SUE THE PANTS OFF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM WHICH HIRED THE NON_ENGLISH SPEAKING WORKERS IN THE FIRST PLACE........
What the HE(( is wrong with the officials in thie country, anyway????
I don't believe these are jobs which "American won't do"...
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