Thread: At Chicago bakery, labor issues pit blacks against illegal aliens

Originally Posted by MW

I just don't understand how the majority of the black voters continue to support Democrats. Grant you, Republicans haven't exactly been blazing on the issue, but they have shown a lot more interest in dealing with the illegal alien problem than the Democrats have.

I guess one of the biggest problems is the lack of media attention the issue receives ...... out of sight, out of mind. Most media is controlled by liberals, so there you go. The whole mess is disgusting.

I agree. Illegals steal jobs mainly from the black community, as well as skilled jobs from whites and blacks alike. But democrats, being the masters of deception that they are, know how lie to black people to get their vote. Hopefully black people will wake up and see what's going on, and how they are being screwed the most from illegal immigration.

When Deportations Create More Jobs For Black Workers

JAZZ SHAWPosted at 8:01 am on February 22, 2018
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This is a strange story out of Chicago which popped last week and really deserves a closer look by everyone. A bakery on the Northwest Side of the Windy City was sold off recently, starting a firestorm of controversy in the community. The Cloverhill Bakery, operating at three different locations, was a major supplier of snack cakes and related baked goods for Little Debbie, but that customer “walked away” after the bakery could no longer fulfill their orders. The reason? ICE had conducted an audit and found that more than 800 primarily Hispanic workers, many employed through a temp agency, were in the country illegally or otherwise using stolen or forged identification. The workers who didn’t immediately take off on their own had to be let go and production plummeted.

Sounds like a disaster, right? But it gets more complicated. Hostess is in the process of buying the bakeries and hiring new workers. Given the location and employment requirements, nearly all of the new workers, largely coming from a different temp agency, are African-American. The complications come in with the fact that some activists are now painting this as some sort of racial confrontation which is being generated by the corporation. This article from the Chicago Sun-Timespaints it in the worst possible terms, describing it as the black and Hispanic communities “being pitted against each other.” But if you read down into the details you’ll see that something remarkable has happened. (Emphasis added)

In 2015, under the Obama administration, ICE inspected the documentation of Labor Network’s employees at Cloverhill. In May 2017, the Trump administration sent letters to about 800 employees, saying they weren’t authorized to work in the United States, records examined by the Chicago Sun-Times show.

Those Hispanic employees didn’t return to work, leaving the bakery desperate to fill their jobs. So the company turned to another placement agency, Metro Staff Inc., and it provided Cloverhill with workers screened through the government’s “E-Verification” program. Most of those new employees are African American.

According to a former consultant to the bakery, MSI paid the black workers $14 an hour, versus the $10 an hour the Mexican workers were making through Labor Network.

The consultant, Felix Okwusa, says the bakery offered its remaining Hispanic workers a $1-an-hour premium to train the black replacement workers.

Despite efforts in the media and among community organizers to paint this as either some sort of “Trump hates immigrants” or divisive race war story, this may turn out to be a huge win for Chicago. First of all, this was an illegal immigration investigation started under Obama, so you can forget about the Trump line. What really counts is the results.

Once ICE sent out those letters, hundreds of illegal aliens knew that their number was up and simply disappeared. The agency who was placing all of them wasn’t following the rules and placing illegals in jobs, so they need to be investigated also. But the owners went through a different agency which uses E-Verify and replaced all of those workers with citizens.

Remember those previous stories about black unemployment dropping over the past year? This is a largely black community so guess who was getting all of those jobs? And they’re making four dollars an hour more than the positions previously paid because of the supply and demand rules of the labor market. Would anyone care to tell me how this is “a bad thing” when hundreds of new jobs with very modest skill and education requirements open up for African-American workers at wages well above the minimum?

The Sun-Times article goes on to air some complaints (which frankly sound totally racist to me) about how the turnover rate among the new workers is higher and how the “immigrants” were willing to do this work for less money. That’s an incredible complaint. They were working for less because they are in the country illegally. By hiring actual citizens, the company avoids breaking the law even if they’re forced to pay a bit more to fill all of those positions.

The tale of Cloverhill Bakery is being depicted as some sort of racial atrocity or deportation forces gone wild, but it’s actually a success story. We need more housecleaning operations such as this, not fewer.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/...tm_campaign=nl

From article above:

According to a former consultant to the bakery, MSI paid the black workers $14 an hour, versus the $10 an hour the Mexican workers were making through Labor Network.

The consultant, Felix Okwusa, says the bakery offered its remaining Hispanic workers a $1-an-hour premium to train the black replacement workers.

But Okwusa says Cloverhill soon ran into problems. In a memo to the company, Okwusa, who is African American, wrote that the black workers “displayed a higher turnover rate of over 40 percent and a lower efficiency rate than their Hispanic co-workers.”

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

From article above:

According to a former consultant to the bakery, MSI paid the black workers $14 an hour, versus the $10 an hour the Mexican workers were making through Labor Network.

The consultant, Felix Okwusa, says the bakery offered its remaining Hispanic workers a $1-an-hour premium to train the black replacement workers.

But Okwusa says Cloverhill soon ran into problems. In a memo to the company, Okwusa, who is African American, wrote that the black workers “displayed a higher turnover rate of over 40 percent and a lower efficiency rate than their Hispanic co-workers.”

I'm guessing that's because the black workers couldn't be manipulated and controlled like the illegal aliens. Basically the illegals were probably being used as slave labor and dared not complain or make demands. That's not what this country is supposed to be about. Just my opinion, for what it's worth.

High turnover rates show a problem with the employer, not the worker. I seriously doubt the new black workers were properly trained by illegal aliens getting the boot who probably didn't have good English.

Americans, never EVER allow an illegal alien to train you for the job they stole from you. They shouldn't even be in the same premise as an American Worker. They should be deported. Also, a lot of Hispanics hate blacks so would never give them a fair and honest training because they want them to fail hoping if they leave they will be replaed with Hispanics.

Aryzta takes a €500m hit on bakery business
Samantha McCaughren
February 4 2018 2:30 AM

A US bakery business bought by Irish-Swiss food group Aryzta less than four years ago for around €530m was sold last week for a knockdown price of only €20m.

The low price for Cloverhill, which has operations in Chicago, follows an immigration crackdown on the business last year which forced out 800 staff, the equivalent of a third of its workforce.

The price tag was revealed in US regulatory filings seen by the Sunday Independent.

The deal by Aryzta to buy Cloverhill was part of a $1bn purchase of two North American assets in 2014. At the time, it was estimated that Cloverhill accounted for $660m (€530m) of that purchase price.

Last year's raids resulted in the departure of skilled bakery staff from Cloverhill and Aryzta struggled to replace them.

The staff that left the facility had been supplied by a third-party agency. The US business became loss-making and last month the group signalled it was preparing to sell the company.

Cloverhill was bought by a company called Hostess Brands and although a price was not revealed in an announcement last week, a filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission said it has been sold for $25m (€20m).

"The transaction is an asset purchase for approximately $25m utilising cash on hand. The assets acquired include approximately $10m of inventory and the property, plant, equipment and customer relationships serviced by the Chicago Cloverhill bakery facility," said the filing.

The new owner expects the business to lose $15m to $20m in the second half of 2018 but to deliver underlying profit of $20m to $25m by 2020.

https://www.independent.ie/business/...-36564641.html

Originally Posted by Judy

High turnover rates show a problem with the employer, not the worker. I seriously doubt the new black workers were properly trained by illegal aliens getting the boot who probably didn't have good English.

Americans, never EVER allow an illegal alien to train you for the job they stole from you. They shouldn't even be in the same premise as an American Worker. They should be deported. Also, a lot of Hispanics hate blacks so would never give them a fair and honest training because they want them to fail hoping if they leave they will be replaed with Hispanics.

Weren't most of the new employee's coming from a temp. agency? If so, the could also have something to do with the high turnover rate.

That would be a problem with the employer, not the worker.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

From article above:

According to a former consultant to the bakery, MSI paid the black workers $14 an hour, versus the $10 an hour the Mexican workers were making through Labor Network.

The consultant, Felix Okwusa, says the bakery offered its remaining Hispanic workers a $1-an-hour premium to train the black replacement workers.

But Okwusa says Cloverhill soon ran into problems. In a memo to the company, Okwusa, who is African American, wrote that the black workers “displayed a higher turnover rate of over 40 percent and a lower efficiency rate than their Hispanic co-workers.”

I will bet you any money that the illegal workers deliberately poorly trained the black workers because they were angry over them coming to replace them. I'll bet there was a lot of things they just didn't want to show the black workers in order to make them look bad.

I've worked at a place that employed illegals, and even though the illegals always acted friendly when asking us to teach them what we knew, when they would acquire knowledge about something, they were very reluctant, and even viscious, or just plain played stupid, so they wouldn't have to share what they knew with any of the white or black workers.

Some people may falsely say that we are racist, but illegal aliens from south of our border are some of the most racist people I have ever met. And I said on here once before that they use the "N" word all the time when referring to black people, but the liberals won't tell you about that, instead they brainwash black people into supporting these illegals who hate black people, as well as white people.