It sure is. Anybody wonder why these posters are in the kitchens of most restaurants in the United States of America, where English is the official language?
Posted on 12/16/2007 5:30:01 AM PST by engrpat
Dozens of Employees Walk Away From Electrolux
NewsChannel 5 looked into whether the plant employed illegal immigrants. Sources told NewsChannel 5 more than 100 workers have been let go in the past couple of days. The employees said it was complete chaos. According to a NewsChannel 5 source, so many workers have been let go that it has been hard to do their jobs at the Electrolux plant.
Second and Third shifts have been hit the hardest, and they believe the company is taking action to fix a problem that should not have happened in the first place. Diane Casey has lived across the street from the Electrolux plant for years. In that time she has had a front row seat of who comes in and out of the plant, but Friday was different from the rest. It was an observation shared by many during the plants' shift change around 1:00 Friday afternoon.
According to a NewsChannel5 source, Electrolux let go 120 employees Thursday and 52 on Friday.
"They were calling your supervisor, calling names to go to HR, taking them to HR and from there walking them out the door. Something about their ID's or Social Security numbers weren't matching," said an anonymous employee. Electrolux released the following statement: "Electrolux does not tolerate or condone the use of false documentation in attempting to establish work eligibility. Every new hire undergoes two verifications of employment eligibility. In light of the recent news stories, we are conducting a review of employment eligibility documentation. The company's policy regarding the presentation of false identity or work authorization documents is termination of employment." "After our last break on the lines it just went berserk," said the employee.
A phone call during second shift Thursday night prompted many employees to walk out.
"Somebody had called in saying INS was going to be there to pick them up when they walked out the door, so they voluntarily walked out themselves," said the employee. The situation could hurt Electrolux's production. Electrolux wouldn't confirm or deny the number of workers that have been let go in recent days or why. The immigration and customs enforcement department, better known as "ICE," is looking into illegal document vendors in the Springfield area.
Earlier this week, federal Agents arrested two people, and charged them with making and selling fake IDs in Robertson County.
Maybe, but if an employer used this service, it would happen less often. http://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnv.htm
“Illegal immigration is a product of the wages and volumes required to satiate the weekend American shopper. Period. If the consumer isn’t willing, really willing, to pay more for the same product or worse, then companies are either going to do that with the cheap illegal labor, or they will do it with cheap, legal, offshore labor.”
B.S., Illegal aliens do nothing, before they came we did just fine. If something was labor intensive we would build a machine to do it. It is a matter of differentiating a capital expenditure or hiring cheap labor. It is a matter of giving jobs to the many Illegal Aliens with little or no education or giving a job to an American with the ability to design machinery that can replace any illegal out there.
Now that China has entered the market with near slave labor work standards and pay, even the Mexicans can’t and won’t work for less. Machines don’t care.
A machine will work day and night, does not sleep and never complains. America, before the illegals came here had the ability to have huge factories turn out products with very few employees.
I’m a Tool Designer, Please don’t try to pull that B.S. on me again.
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Bttt!
well said!
“In-N-Out doesn’t hire illegals. They are always packed.”
This is good news. I love fast food and In-N-Out is pretty good. I quit eating out because I got sick so many times and when my wife saw a Mexican eating while preparing food and dropping a tortilla on the floor, then picking it up to serve at the Del Taco near me, I just quit eating out.
I’ll give it a try, but if I can’t understand the person taking orders, it’s back to home cooked food for me.
I've been wondering about that. Jim did not do his homework.
Just sick of the globalist mantra that free trade is good for America.
Fair trade...
Electrolux must have received a heads-up that ICE was planning an inspection. That's when they stopped tolerating and condoning.
I called the health department a couple months about T_co Bell. The folks who prepare food are very visible to the customer (and do NOT wear food prep gloves).
I ordered a burrito with extra cheese. The guy starting the order was scratching inside his ear - then took a tortilla (with the same fingers!) and spread beans on it - he slid it over to the lady on his left who was picking at her scalp. She put her bare hands in the container of cheese and sprinkled it on the buritto.
I was appalled! I told the clerk I would buy my germs elsewhere, thank you, and walked out. I'll never eat there again.
I told the Health Department Inspector that there were only two places I felt safe eating at, these days. S_bway, and Qu_zno's, as I can watch them prepare my sandwich, and they wear gloves at both places. He said Qu_zno's is ok. Period. He would say nothing about S_bway.
The Chinese Buffet in a town near me had eleven violations last month from the Health Department!
that’s absolutely disgusting!
It sure is. Anybody wonder why these posters are in the kitchens of most restaurants in the United States of America, where English is the official language?
Wow!
Then why don't you cash in! Design a completely automated vacuum cleaner assembler, stacker and stocker Tool for Electrolux! Design a fancy automated burger assembler Tool for MickeyD's---bet they never thought of that!!!
Hey! Why not design a "Tool Designer" Tool and replace your own self?!
Oh. That's right. At some point, in any given business, there is some level of labor equivalence and productivity vs. machines.
What you do have a handle on is that other people in the world are EAGER to work for much less than we can manage here. And by the way, "slave's wage" is an idiotic cliche. Slaves don't get paid a wage!
In China, and in Mexico, and illegals in America are eager to work for much less than 'we' have been made accustomed to by unions and limited competition from abroad.
So back to your point. Electrolux needs to be able to make vacuum cleaners cheaper on an already thinner margin than a burger company. They gonna do that with people from McDonalds? Or with some capital intensive manufacturing automation upgrade? You gonna front them the money, interest free?
“As I said, employers deserve blame, as does any willful lawbreaker.”
Employers are people, willful lawbreakers are people.
“But the biggest lawbreaker in this appears to be the government, as it continues to”
The laws are there. Part of our government. They can only be enforced, or ignored, by people. People willing to break the law to make a few extra bucks.
The only difference between what you said and I said is that you describe ‘the government’ as some monstrous creature that has it’s own mind, it’s own needs, and does whatever it wants to, regardless of what the people holding positions in the government do, or don’t do.
“Every new hire undergoes two verifications of employment eligibility. . . “ by our man in Human Resources, Jose Juan Alverez.
(It’s not what they say, it’s what they don’t say)
Hey sam_paine, I’m not quite following what you are saying. I have cashed in on many of my designs over the last 30 some-odd-years. That is how I made a living. McDonalds has a machine just inside the drive thru that automatically fills up our drinks rather than leave it to an uneducated Mexican. Many fast food places now have you talk to someone in India to take our orders instead of us having to say to some Mexican “What, can you repeat that back to me?”.
Your “Idiotic Cliché” statement does not bother me because I am talking to a Pro-Illegal Alien sam_paine.
As to your last statement about fronting money, while hiring illegals spreads the initial cost as long as that product is in demand, a capital investment in automation over the long run will quickly be absorbed and from then on it is all profit. Without selling out your country and countrymen and subjecting yourself to legal problems. Without bringing into our country liars, cheats, thieves, and welfare recipients.
Actually, it sounds more like you’re giving government a pass.
You see, what people should or shouldn’t do is irrelevant....being that human nature is what it is. But that’s exactly what laws are for, and exactly why we have law enforcement officers and other governmental entities...to enforce the laws the people will break because they, being human, tend to ignore laws or act irresponsibly.
But when someone is hired to act on behalf of ALL people, and they have sworn a duty to uphold and enforce those laws against criminal lawbreakers...well, yes, THOSE people are held to higher account because they have the AUTHORITY to enforce laws, which benefit all people.
What we have in government are people who are not upholding the powers they were and are given to enforce laws against the irresponsible...and, imho, that’s even worse than people who refuse to obey the laws they should be voluntarily following.
omg!
“Since when has Congress shown simplicity?”
It is not Congress’s job to solve problems.
Their job is to fabricate problems, for which they will pass laws requiring massive amounts of funding, which can be spread out among their families, friends, and political supporters.
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