Posted on 08/28/2008 8:30:39 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. Friction between the union and immigrant workers, along with a tipoff at an electrical manufacturing plant, boiled over this week into the biggest workplace immigration raid in the nation's history. When the first of the 595 suspected illegal immigrants was taken into custody Monday, some fellow workers broke into applause. Union members said they resented immigrants, who were often allowed to work as much as 40 hours of overtime a week when other workers were discouraged from doing so. Robert Shaffer, head of the Mississippi AFL-CIO, said Wednesday that members have long complained that companies in southern Mississippi hire illegal immigrants. "Jackson, Hattiesburg, Laurel and all areas along the coast, it's a little Mexico," Shaffer said. "I'm not against people trying to make living. I have a compassion for those folks. But at the same time, the taxpayers of Mississippi shouldn't be subsidizing a plant that won't even hire their own workers." In 2002, Mississippi lawmakers approved a $31.5 million, taxpayer-backed incentive plan for Howard Industries to expand. . Those detained in the raid came from Brazil, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Peru. Contacted Wednesday, Howard Industries referred reporters to the statement it issued Monday, which said the company "runs every check allowed to ascertain the immigration status of all applicants for its jobs. At least eight of the workers caught in the raid face criminal charges for allegedly using false Social Security and residency identification. On Wednesday, hundreds of people lined up outside the plant to apply for jobs as news of the raid spread.
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And what exactly did you do with the "No Match" letters, Howard?
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So much for "jobs Americans won't do".
Could this possibly mean Americans will do the jobs Americans won't do?
Ah, so it was the union that threw the immigrants under the bus. So much for the RATs amnesty plank when it comes right down to it.
Apparently only because many (most?) of them refused to join the union.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
That's right, Johann just doesn't fit in with his coworkers.
It is interesting that the union bosses were involved. I could understand the union members, but the national unions have been pro-illegals, pro-amnesty. They would rather get a few million more warm bodies in the union paying dues than protect their current members' wages.
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Factory tensions?
Are they joking?
Where these reporters been?
How about national outrage, disgust and utter contempt?
Ah, so it was the union that threw the immigrants under the bus.
they were expendable because they probably opposed union membership dues.
Where I work it's minorities and women, both of whom have company sponsored "networking" and education groups to help them along. I'm told my networking group (whitey) has already existed for hundreds of years, so none is necessary.
“I’m told my networking group (whitey) has already existed for hundreds of years, so none is necessary.”
The msm and its Democrat masters are in for a surprise in Nov. when Whitey votes his resentment against our first Affirmative Action nominee.
“On Wednesday, hundreds of people lined up outside the plant to apply for jobs as news of the raid spread. A billboard had gone up last week, before the raid, saying the company was hiring.”
I want to see executives and principal owners led off in handcuffs. We’ve been lied to and lied to about this issue, topped off by Jorge silly and insulting little bromides we’ve all heard until we’re sick of them.
“Pretty much the same as we the people and our government.”
You’re flat wrong about the “we the people” part, and the people have been against illegal immigration and amnesty at least since the 1986 amnesty.
Business owners and individuals ignoring the law to hire cheap labor aren’t “we the people”.
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