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UPDATE: Job Applicants Line Up 'Out the Door' After Mass Illegals Raid... | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 171958 United States12/20/2006 05:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to nebraska.statepaper.com] Guess Who Is Hiring Americans Who Happen To Be White? By ED HOWARD December 20, 2006 Some of the jobs Americans purportedly "won't do" have apparently been getting more popular among white people who are doing them these days - but for better money than the illegal immigrants they replaced. Does this mean Lou Dobbs might be right? Or does it prove, as his critics have so often argued, that Dobbs is into anti-capitalist witchcraft, and should be burned at a non-union stake in Salem? Union officials say Swift & Co. meatpacking plants have been hiring more Caucasians since the feds raided plants last week, looking for workers who were in the country illegally. Up to 50 new workers have been hired at the Grand Island plant since the raids that snagged 261 workers there, according to Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Hoppes told reporters: “The lion’s share of those people were Caucasian.” Our guess is that he didn’t say “white people” because such could be subject to classification, by some, as politically incorrect. In keeping with the industry’s traditional response to the raids, Swift & Co. has stuck with the excuse that it has never “knowingly” hired illegals. The company had not commented, at this writing, on the hiring of greater numbers of Caucasians. This story has drawn global attention. A headline on the AP story in the Guardian Unlimited (UK) read: Unions: Swift & Co. Hiring More Whites. The same headline, and many similar ones, appeared in countless American venues. What some might consider more delicate descriptions appeared on the same story on lots of other MSM sites. Such as: Unions: Fewer Hispanic Workers Hired Since Swift & Co. Raids. Others just said that fewer immigrants were being hired, etc. Here is the interesting thing about the new hires: Union officials also said that Swift began improving wages, benefits and bonuses before the raids. A reflection of the holiday spirit? If so, it also reflected the fact that Swift & Co. knew well in advance that the raids were coming, and that replacements would be needed if illegal workers were hauled off. The company apparently was just being cautious, since it never knowingly hires illegal workers, but understands that such things can happen. Union spokeswoman Jill Cashen told reporters: "They're trying to staff up their plants and they've been raising their wages the past few weeks. To me, it's an example that when you make the job more attractive you get a different kind of applicant." Define “a different kind of applicant.” The industry and the government have said illegals do jobs that “Americans won’t do.” That’s a sissy way of saying that white people and black people who are citizens generally don’t want those jobs, given the lousy wages and benefits associated with them. The recent hires at Swift might indicate that some Americans will do those jobs, for better wages and benefits. Who’d a thought it? Actually, it seems that the meatpacking industry knew it. Among the first, rancid baloney to come out of the industry was the assurance that having fewer illegal workers meant more dollars would be paid for meat products. That seems to translate this way: “We don’t knowingly hire illegal workers. “However, if the illegal workers we unknowingly hire were to disappear, the legal workers hired to replace them would not work for the crummy wages and benefits that illegal workers have to take if they want to work here. “Paying wages acceptable to someone who is not, indirectly or otherwise, a fugitive from the law will cut into our profits. We don’t want that, so the consumer will have to make up the difference because we ain’t taking a penny less than we have been getting by unknowingly hiring illegally workers – which, by the way, we never knowingly hire.” |
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HeidiLore  User ID: 159901 United States12/20/2006 05:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Excellent news!! Visit my website... [link to heidi-lore.tripod.com] Need to email? [email protected] Visit the GLP video site and click on groups: [link to youtube.com] _____________ The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference. I believe I can see the future, 'cause I repeat the same routine. I think I used to have a purpose, but then again, it might have been a dream |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 60206 United States12/20/2006 05:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Most illegals get paid cash and is pretty close to what others would get in their NET after taxes are taken out. The employers are also not having to pay about 13% of the gross for the employer's portion of taxes. Any employer who hires an illegal really should be facing jail time. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 169932 United States12/20/2006 07:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good for the new applicants (IE REAL WHITE AMERICANS), BRAVO to them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 428Hope they enjoy twelve hour days at substandard wages and getting their limbs cut off an not getting compensated for it. The difference is we are legal thus we have laws backing us if we lose a limb. The illegals don't so the employer can take advantage of them. I know plenty of people who have worked 10 to 12 hour days; most LOVE the overtime pay. In fact though I don't think they should they start to count it as regular pay. Most men I knew when I was raising my children loved to get jobs with overtime if they wives were stay at home moms taking care of the home and children as the man's was the only income. They won't get substandard wages either as they are legal so know what they should be paid for that type of job and can legally get it. Illegals open themselves up to much abuse by employers. I have even heard of employers not allowing them to leave the building to got get lunch. Most of that company had Hatian illegals instead of Mexican and South Americans though. An American wouldn't stand for such treatment from the employer slave drivers. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 116561 United States12/21/2006 12:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good for the new applicants (IE REAL WHITE AMERICANS), BRAVO to them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 169932Hope they enjoy twelve hour days at substandard wages and getting their limbs cut off an not getting compensated for it. The difference is we are legal thus we have laws backing us if we lose a limb. The illegals don't so the employer can take advantage of them. I know plenty of people who have worked 10 to 12 hour days; most LOVE the overtime pay. In fact though I don't think they should they start to count it as regular pay. Most men I knew when I was raising my children loved to get jobs with overtime if they wives were stay at home moms taking care of the home and children as the man's was the only income. They won't get substandard wages either as they are legal so know what they should be paid for that type of job and can legally get it. Illegals open themselves up to much abuse by employers. I have even heard of employers not allowing them to leave the building to got get lunch. Most of that company had Hatian illegals instead of Mexican and South Americans though. An American wouldn't stand for such treatment from the employer slave drivers. so if american workers are so good at knowing what their rights are, and demanding them why have they been stupid enough to vote W into office two times, and put republicans in power who favor business and the wealthy, at THEIR expense? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 150446 United States12/21/2006 05:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Most illegals get paid cash and is pretty close to what others would get in their NET after taxes are taken out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 60206The employers are also not having to pay about 13% of the gross for the employer's portion of taxes. Any employer who hires an illegal really should be facing jail time. Not 13 %. The correct figure that employers kick in is 7.65 %. They match the 6.2% OASDI ( Soc. Sec. ), and 1.45 % Medicare. |
