Eduardo Pena: Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition.
Eduardo is a Route Coordinator for The Miami Route.
Posted on 01/26/2007 1:29:47 PM PST by kennedy
It is.
"Smithfield joined the IMAGE program last year."
Plant managers knew this was coming and apparently, did nothing about it. They knew they hired illegals.
Gene L. Bruskin, Secretary-Treasurer
Food and Allied Services Trades, AFL-CIO
Audio recording of speech by Gene Bruskin of US Labor Against War at UNITE Hall in Chicago, Summer of 2004.
http://tinyurl.com/33v6fm
BTL: Union Campaign to Organize Smithfield Workers at...
by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus - Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus Saturday, Dec 30 2006, 7:42am
betweenthelines@snet.net address: BETWEEN THE LINES c/o WPKN Radio 89.5 FM Bridgeport, Connecticut
...World's Largest Slaughterhouse~Interview with Gene Bruskin, organizer with the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
Union Campaign to Organize Smithfield Workers at World's Largest Slaughterhouse
Interview with Gene Bruskin, organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
The recent raid by U.S. immigration enforcement agents at six meat packing plants around the country points to the importance of Latino immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, in what has become a largely non-union workforce. A century ago, Jewish, Polish and other European immigrants worked in the packing plants of the Midwest, along with African Americans who had recently emigrated from the South seeking better opportunities. They helped unionize the thousands of workers in those plants. But times have changed, and much of the workforce is non-union once again.
The United Food and Commercial Workers, or UFCW, is now organizing the mostly African American and Latino immigrant workforce at the largest hog slaughterhouse in the world, run by Smithfield Farms in Tarheel, N.C. The union condemns what it describes as the poverty wages, brutal conditions, and crippling injuries which it says plagues the 5,500 workers who are employed at the plant.
Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Gene Bruskin, director of the UFCW organizing campaign, who discusses the intense union drive now going on at the Smithfield plant and provides an overview of labor history in this sector of the workforce.
For more information on the Smithfield campaign call the UFCW at (202) 223-3311 or visit the union's website at www.smithfieldjustice.com
LISTEN to this week's half-hour program of Between The Lines by clicking on one of the links below:
http://www.btlonline.org
Yep. It won't be there in so many words, but it is their business plan to pay wages that attract only illegal workers.
If you had "Several Hunderd not show up for work" because of the arrest of 21 for illegal status, it is time for the admin group to be combing the personnel records for other scofflaws....
Turning a blind eye to the correct status of a prospective employee is bad news and expensive for everyone involved.
Illegal gets hired= citizen does NOT get hired.
Illegal gives momentum to others of same persuasion=more and more of the lemmings coming north, working or not.
Illegal gets "injured" on the job= payment for "injuries, and now has entire "family" of who knows how many have now followed the illegal north...
Workmen's Comp goes thru the roof, not only for the "employer" involved, but for every employer in that grouping of work type in that state. EI: All roofers in the state will be impacted by the payments made to this illegal hired by one roofing company.
That spirals all our costs out of sight...
Crime, emergency room costs, school costs...all go thru the ceiling.
If they don't start, the market will simply leave them behind. I just use the LSM sources for what few facts they issue and then go in search of the rest of the story, which I generally have to piece together from posts here, info on other blogs, and sometimes a competing news source. Nice of them to decide that, now that there's plenty of competition, they don't have to compete and actually 'work' for a living.
Ya know, if the church had any kind of moral values and integrity, it would encourage illegals to go through the proper channels of citizenship rather than encouraging them to compound their crimes.
They can catch an Adame bus from Atlanta to Mexico for a whole lot less, but it's much harder to get off an airplane before crossing the border.
Eduardo Pena: Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition.
Eduardo is a Route Coordinator for The Miami Route.
This makes me want to vomit. What the hell difference does it make that some illegals have children? They are knowingly and willingly breaking the law. If they are "being torn from their young children," it's their own damned fault for coming here illegally, and procreation is not a defense.
How about a traffic stop means an automatic background check and deportation for illegals? All assets in the US are forfitted to cover the costs of running the deportation program. Falsifying a SSN on a job application, deportation.
We need to make it so unpleasant for illegals to be in this country that they will leave. If they want to come back legally, fine, welcome aboard.
All illegals over 18 must leave. Those who are deported are fingerprinted and must wait at least 3 years before applying to return legally.
If they have a child born in the US, the child can stay or go. If the child stays it will be put up for adoption and the records destroyed. If the child leaves, the child must wait unil they are eighteen to reenter.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
YES.
I am continusally amazed at the absence of the word "terrified" when describing illegal immigrants' thousand-mile trip into the United States.
They are only "terrified" at going home?
What's wrong with this picture?
They are ushered in by US Coyotes wearing the titles of "union leaders" in this specific case.
Do you realize how Smithfield and their illegal aliens are raising the unemployment rates of Americans by illegally recruiting and hiring illegal aliens?
How the local churches are illegally helping to recruit, transport, harbor illegal alien just to fill their emptying pews so their offering plates are filled with tithes - and the IRS gets ripped off along with honest American workers who are displaced by criminal invaders?
Invaders pumping out 4-8 anchor babies each who will soon overwhelm your votes while the American citizens cannot afford to have and raise 2 children because their honest legal jobs are stolen by illegal aliens and crooked corporations like the greedy pigs at Smithfield in North Carolina and elsewhere.
These Smithfield execs and managers need to do hard prison time for conspiring with corrupt church radicals and unions and "immigration attorneys" - all should be prosecuted and do hard time.
North Carolina politicians should be prosecuted too - as well as many in the federal government from both the Klintoon and Bush administration because of their deliberate corrupt criminal activities.
If the illegal can break the laws and steal from the US taxpayers - yet politicians and attorneys and judges say "some laws are not important or fair" - I'd say it should be OK to "borrow" the SUVs of illegal aliens, politicians, judges, church ministers - It's only "fair" to "share" - especially with those who have been ripped off or fired because of illegal aliens.
Physicians, ERs and hospitals ripped off and going bankrupt, your crooked DC politicians forcing physicians and hospitals and ERs to treat illegal aliens that cannot or refuse to pay -
They are worse then ENRON X's 1000
Sooner or later some judges, politicians, Smithfield crooked execs (etc.), will face some "retaliation" that I will obviously not post here -
And the sooner the better!
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