Posted on 12/28/2010 4:45:40 PM PST by moonshinner_09
On Monday morning, state troopers pulled over a van with a broken windshield on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and discovered 10 illegal aliens inside the vehicle. According to Pennsylvania State Police Sgt. Anthony Deluca, three of the illegal aliens escaped during the traffic stop but were captured a short time later.
The nine Salvadoran nationals and one Honduran were all turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The illegal aliens were on their way from Maryland to work on a taxpayer-funded housing project in Jeannette, PA.
The federal project is being built by Homes Build Hope, a subsidiary of AdelphoiUSA.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
“Because hiring illegals on a union crew defeats the purpose of hiring illegals. It’s just not done that often. “
I’m not so sure that illegals, as union members, receive the same ‘benefits’ or ‘pay’ as other union members...but I’ll bet they pay FULL union dues.
In many cases the unions are just as corrupt as the employers and will broker deals with employers... like reducing employees to part-time status, with less pay, no benefits, but, they still must pay FULL union dues. So much for the union backing their members.
Then you live in a pretty insulated little bubble. As in IT consultant I see both PW and union projects and I've seen just as many union workers who can't speak a lick of English as I do on PW projects.
On one project they're Jose, the next project they're Tomas...
If i did not personally know the developer i would have turned him in.
And yet for all your self-righteous blather you have no problem covering criminal activity up when it suits you. How very....hypocritical of you.
In construction trade unions the benefits are paid out of the dues, so there's not any benefit to the union to have a less paid employee like an illegal.
It's not set up like a manufacturers union, because the benefits are portable.
Unions are afforded almost a mythical level of evilness on FR. It's quite bizarre when they make up 9% of the private workforce, but we still have a 3.4 trillion dollar federal government.
Did you ever consider someone was giving you a head fake, when they said "look over there at what those unions are doing" while they were cleaning out the till?
Just askin'.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you. Unions do have their place, IMO. I don’t necessarily agree with, for example, Ohio’s ‘at will’ work laws, where a non-union employee can be fired for absolutely any or no reason given. I worked 25 years in several corporate environments and, as an Exec. Asst. was treated like a dog. Why? Because they could and knew that, for the most part, single moms feel trapped. Even when I became disabled, I was refused any short or long term disability benefits and offered instead, termination with one month’s severence. Frankly, I’m still traumatized by the whole experience.
On the other hand, until my sons were 18 yrs. old they benefited medically from their father’s membership in a meat cutter’s union. He was a union steward and manager of his department. For a union job, the pay wasn’t excessive by any means, but the stability and medical benefits were good. However, when their father turned 50 (after 30 yrs of service) the union forced him to take a ‘buyout’ and he was replaced by 2 part-time employees....company saves by lower salaries, union gains because each pay full union dues. So what is he doing now? Cutting meat part-time, at an entry level salary and paying full union dues.
Honestly, sometimes I don’t know which is worse.
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