[Missouri]

>>There's no shortage of labor<<


I agree. What amazes me is that Mr. Sweeney, head of the AFL-CIO, wants to grant amnesty to illegals so he can organize them. This goes against every thing the Labor movement in this country was about ( supply and demand ).
The Democrats figure that they can buy thier votes with welfare, etc. The Democrats will destoy this country if this keeps up.

[TaZ]

The real reason nothing is done about illegal-immigration is that the corrupt two-party political system in Amerika has had their pockets lined with money from the pro-cheap labor/illegal immigrant lobby.

Companies across America increase their profitability many times over hiring workers who will work at less than half of what an average American would consider a fair wage.

Not only that, but the illegals don't complain about working 12-14 hour days and not getting paid time and a half for over-time...

Just like NAFTA and GATT, its just another goose-step towards legal slavery and abolishment of the middle-class.

[4Freedom]

Not so amazing. If the union cuts a deal with the employers to sell-out their present membership, so the employers can hire more workers than they have now at lower wages, the unions collect more dues.

I witnessed exactly this with a teamsters affiliated local over 20 years ago.

The employers get more cheap labor.

The unions collect more dues every month.

The union membership gets the royal shaft.

[nanny]

Democrats will destoy this country if this keeps up.

' We have to call things as they are. The Republicans, especially our President, is very much in favor of this. He has been pushing this since the day he took office. If it had not been for 9/11, the amnesty would have been completed already. No, we must recognize the truth, the Republicans are to blame also.

I talked with a union member I know and was fussing because the union did not stop NAFTA and is not working to stop illegal immigration, so when he had a chance to talk with one of the big guys who came around, he just asked him why. The big guy said they spent money to stop it, but could not because the ones who wanted to employe them had more money. So, now what they were going to do is just unionize them. Whether that is true or not, about trying to stop it, I don't know. If we can't get rid of them - I hope they unionize every one of them.

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