Posted on 10/23/2023 2:43:13 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
When Norelis Vargas heard about housekeeping work at a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport, she did not hesitate to sign up.
Vargas, 39, who migrated from Venezuela and entered the U.S. about three months ago seeking asylum, had been living with her husband and three children for months at Union Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter on Skid Row, and needed the income. But when she arrived at Four Points by Sheraton on Oct. 6, Vargas said she was surprised to find a group of hotel employees picketing.
“I thought, it’s good they are fighting for their rights,” Vargas said. But she said she felt uncomfortable. “The people outside, it was their job, and I was the one replacing them.”
Since more than 15,000 workers began intermittent strikes at about 60 Southern California hotels in early July, employers have been replacing those union members with managers and temporary workers recruited through apps, such as Instawork, staffing agencies and by other means. Vargas is among those from Skid Row’s migrant population who have been recruited in recent weeks to work at unionized hotels in Santa Monica and near Los Angeles International Airport where workers have gone on strike.
In addition to the Four Points by Sheraton hotel, migrants were hired at the Holiday Inn LAX and Le Meridien Delfina Santa Monica, according to interviews with migrants employed as temporary workers and organizers with Unite Here Local 11, the union representing striking hotel employees.
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Who could have seen this coming?
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this is one thing they’ve wanted all along.
next LEO?
motor voter?
Looks like the Dems don’t need the union vote any more.
Given the Democrats support illegal immigration, who place downward pressure on job pay, remind me why, exactly, this union supported Democrats?
You get what you voted for, morons.
Why do I not believe this story of this illegal invader?
Not sure what I think about this as yet. I’ll let it play out a bit and see what develops and what the consequences may be.
I Processed alot of payroll checks when I worked in LA.
FORM I-9 was mandatory.
NONE of these people can produce that data.
Hiring someone and paying them to do a job is now exploitation apparently in California?
What does the union want? I couldn’t find it in the story.
imagine the bedbugs, flees, mites in these hotels
do your homework as to where they’ve been housed
I was the owner/president of 3 small companies in 80s and 90s. I can't remember all the particulars, but didn't a prospective employee have to show a valid Fed or State I.D? And wasn't that a Federal form? When did they stop that requirement, because I've heard some in Congress who want to re-initiate that form?
Was that an IRS requirement or INS policy?. Do you recall who enforced it if they raided a company for proper I.D and a copy of the I-9. There were lot of unannounced raids in those years and illegal workers being hauled off and deported.
Didn’t Obama make it illegal to ask if a job applicant was in the country legally?
“...migrants...” ?
They’re criminal, illegal, alien invaders.
If all of them had the same uniform on, we’d look like a country under occupation.
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