Wednesday - April 12, 2006

Pink Slip

I’m sorry but this whole illegal aliens thing has reached new lows of arrogance and stupidity. These women came here illegally, found a job, then walked off the job to protest. Then they got fired because they didn’t show up for work. Read that again. Does it make sense to you the second time around?

They broke the law to come to America illegally in order to “find good jobs and make a better life” as they keep telling us. Then they walk off the job to protest for more rights. Then they got fired from their “good job”, after not showing up for work. Now they’re going to protest against the company for firing them?

If there is even an inkling of intelligence in that progression of events, I wish someone would point it out to me. Do we really want people this stupid coming to America? Forget the fact that that they broke the law for a minute. When you combine this incredible amount of stupidity with the unbelievable arrogance to think that you deserve the right to walk off the job whenever you want, the result is incomprehensible.

Immigrants’ Firing Leads To Protest
15 women lose jobs after attending rally; Manager says they were warned
_{April 11, 2006}

(DETROIT FREE PRESS)—A manager at a Detroit meatpacking plant said Monday that 15 immigrant women were fired last month after attending a protest for immigrant rights. He said they had been told that they would be terminated if they missed work on the day of the protest.

But the workers and an activist working on their behalf said the women were given no such assurances. If the workers knew they would have been fired for attending the March 27 rally in Detroit, they never would have skipped the morning shift, said Elena Herrada, a Detroit activist who is trying to help the women get their jobs back.

Herrada and about 20 union officials went Monday to Wolverine Packing Co. offices on Rivard to inquire about what happened. They were given a letter signed by general manager Jay Bonahoom, explaining why the workers were terminated.

Meanwhile Monday, marches were held in Washington, D.C., Atlanta and other cities to protest proposed changes in immigration rules. On Sunday, hundreds gathered at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Detroit. Some of the Wolverine workers were undocumented, Herrada and one of the workers said, and wanted to march in the Detroit rally to show their support for immigrant rights.

Tens of thousands of people, mostly Latinos, protested legislation that would make it a crime to help undocumented immigrants. The next morning, when the women reported to work for their shifts as meat cutters, a supervisor told them to clean out their lockers and go home.

Bonahoom said that as far as Wolverine knows, the workers were documented, but an employment agency does the actual hiring. He said the workers had been told, “written and verbally,” on the Friday before the protests that their attendance was mandatory on the day of the protest.

They were fired “for standing up for their rights,” Herrada said.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2006 at 04:11 AM   
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