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To: BunnySlippers
And last month, the company lost a federal appellate court battle over whether it could ignore a vote by workers at its Brooklyn distribution center to unionize, on grounds that those in favor were illegal immigrants and not entitled to federal labor protections.

Now, ain't that brazen?

The affidavit cited unnamed sources who alleged that some company supervisors employed 15-year-olds, helped cash checks for workers with fake documents, and pressured workers without documents to purchase vehicles and register them in other names.

In addition, the affidavit alleged that company supervisors ignored a report of a methamphetamine drug lab operating in the plant. It also cited a case in which a supervisor blindfolded a Guatemalan worker and allegedly struck him with a meat hook, without serious injury.

If this doesn't call for a major investigation of the company, what would?

The union organizer did raise a valid point - with the illegals deported so are the witnesses against the supervisors.

9 posted on 05/18/2008 3:36:18 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: R. Scott

Boy, I missed that ... about the unions.


10 posted on 05/18/2008 3:40:34 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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