[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[keepitreal]

So, being able to communicate with fellow employees and customers can no longer be a job requirement?

Great precedent. Maybe they can apply it to an air traffic controller. Why should he/she have to learn English?

[Mears]

The employees are probably Brazilians-—Framingham is loaded with them.

This is a great store-—I’ve made many donations,and some purchses,at that location.

[Mears]

The employees are probably Brazilians-—Framingham is loaded with them.

This is a great store-—I’ve made many donations,and some purchases,at that location.

[Bahbah]

They are promising that part of the shamnesty bill will be a requriement that the illegals learn English in order to become citizens.

I think this shows us just how serious they are about that.

[isrul]

So the stupid amigos suffered “emotional pain, humiliation and embarrassment”. That’s terrible. For not learning English, they should be deported after any property they posses is confiscated. And the EEOC should be classified a criminal organization and its members should be turned over to the people to determine their punishment.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

You have finally done it!! As I read your post I totally lost my temper and my lunch appetite. When a government agency sinks to such depths that the Salvation Army becomes a target, then maybe all IS lost. As a young Jewish boy, I was told by my parents to NEVER pass a “SALLY” bell ringer, even if all I had was small change. As a young sailor, I recall the kindness done by them, quietly, steadily and constantly.
Good works, done by gentle people, without HUGE payrolls, without vast “do-good” campaigns, without “look at me” programs..are now to be judged, not by the quality of their charitable works, rather by their “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”
I am a very large man, and when I bring donations of clothes to them, the genuine warmth of their thanks is so open and heart warming. One worker told me that they already knew who badly needed my large cast-offs and they would be given out within the week.
Now I know our government has reached bottom. How sad.

[Badeye]

The Salvation Army is one of the very few organizations I donate money and goods to on a regular basis.

That they are now being attacked comes as no surprise.

[Inquisitive1]

I know that government should not be telling religious groups whom they can and cannot hire or fire.

But it's OK to tell private organizations and private companies who to hire and fire.

[theymakemesick]

So I can be denied a job if it requires me to be fluent in Spanish but the Salvation Army can’t deny a job to someone because they can’t speak English??? Un-be-flipping-lievable! Let’s hope and help the Salvation Army win the lawsuit and set a precedent where the English requirement is upheld legally.

[Inquisitive1]

This is in Rep Ed Markey’s [D-MA] district.

[spunkets]

The DOJ should supply attys that only speak Urdu to the EEOC.

[Frank_2001]

Excellent article!

[LiteKeeper]

PC INTREP

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Learning English was an agreed to condition of employment. Case dismissed; please turn in your license to practice before the bar on the way out.

Next Case.

[Jacquerie]

Every government bureaucracy no matter how irrelevant, soon becomes something like a living organism bent on living and propagating. That the full force of the federal government can be unleashed on a whim on a great charity should make us shiver at what they have and will do against for profit corporations and individuals.

[A. Pole]

It all started in a thrift store in Framingham, Massachusetts. Two Hispanic employees were given one year to learn English in order to speak the language of the country in which they live and the language spoken by other employees. They failed to do so; in turn the employees were fired. The EEOC filed a lawsuit against the Salvation Army claiming the employees had suffered "emotional pain, humiliation and embarrassment" as a result of the English-only policy.

But when people lose or are being denied job for NOT speaking Spanish is it OK?