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Smithfield should be shut down. Completely. Every member of HR thrown in jail.
If they are legal what is the risk?
If they are criminal invaders their arrest should be certain, not a risk.
Provide the criminal invaders free air flights home.
Production at the plant was substantially diminished Thursday as workers stayed away.
So, they hire so many illegal aliens that production is diminished when they all stay home so they’re not arrested and deported?
“There are hundreds of immigrant families who will have to decide, ‘Do I show up to work (Friday) and risk being arrested by immigration?’” said Eduardo Pena, a spokesman for the union
How do you get to become one of the union if you’re not even a legal resident?
“They’re very concerned about how they’ll live,” Salazar said.
Let them go back, with their working family, to the country of origin.
Not attending work is common in the region, he said.
There’s that illegal work ethic. You betcha.
What this guy want, armed resistance by Smithfield management?
Immigrant workers need fear nothing, but ILLEGAL ALEINS, on the other hand...
ICE should set up a hotline for all of these workers' families who are so worried about where they are. Then reunite them with their families and deport the lot of 'em!
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)
The good news of the day.
TS. If I were in Mexico illegally you can bet I would go in fear of law enforcement.
Executives of companies hiring lawbreakers should also be arrested, put on trial and if guilty, imprisoned. The illegals they have hired should be sent back to their home country.
"Smithfield joined the IMAGE program last year."
Plant managers knew this was coming and apparently, did nothing about it. They knew they hired illegals.
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
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...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
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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.
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.
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.
YES.