Thread: LWIW coalition calls for boycott of Dunkin Donuts

http://www.lwiw.org/

Low-Wage Immigrant Worker (LWIW) Coalition

The Low-Wage Immigrant Worker (LWIW) Coalition is a collaborative of state and national advocates and organizers working to improve the conditions of immigrant laborers. The mission of the LWIW is to support this community of advocates by sharing information and strategies impacting immigrant workers at both the local/state and national level.

The LWIW is co-convened by the AFL-CIO, Change to Win, Interfaith Worker Justice, Jobs With Justice, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), National Council of La Raza, National Employment Law Project (NELP), and the National Immigration Law Center.





http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/37 ... p?key=3265

Carlyle / Dunkin Brands Campaign

We the undersigned demand that Carlyle Group and its subsidiaries (including Wheatland Tube and Dunkin Brands) immediately stop using Social Security Administration (SSA) No-match Letters and the Basic Pilot (E-Verify) program to unjustly fire and retaliate against workers. We also pledge to do all that we can to educate the public on Carlyle, and its subsidiaries misuse of these programs.

HMMM, HMMM! I suddenly have an appetite for some Dunkin Donuts!

What a joke! On one hand, Dunkin Donuts has probably been using cheap illegal invader labor. On the other hand, It appears as if they are trying to clean up their act and comply with the E-Verify. Hopefully, they do not cave in to the demands of these ethno-centric terrorists groups who are trying to harm them economically, by issuing this so called weak boycott!

The boycott will never work. Too many policemen like their donut breaks.

Originally Posted by NoBueno

What a joke! On one hand, Dunkin Donuts has probably been using cheap illegal invader labor. On the other hand, It appears as if they are trying to clean up their act and comply with the E-Verify. Hopefully, they do not cave in to the demands of these ethno-centric terrorists groups who are trying to harm them economically, by issuing this so called weak boycott!

Hey, have you heard, we have access to "cheap donuts" in Houston!!!!

the LWIW i do not support . but Dunkin Donuts i do , wife can't make it with out'em

Originally Posted by NoBueno

What a joke! On one hand, Dunkin Donuts has probably been using cheap illegal invader labor. On the other hand, It appears as if they are trying to clean up their act and comply with the E-Verify. Hopefully, they do not cave in to the demands of these ethno-centric terrorists groups who are trying to harm them economically, by issuing this so called weak boycott!

Actually No Bueno, Dunkin Donuts is very proactive against the hiring of illegal aliens. This is just one article from Michelle Malkin about it but if you Google "Dunkin Donuts on Illegal Immigrants" you will find numerous items which discuss it.

Last year, when Waukegan was preparing to vote on 287g, the illegals and their advocates called for businesses to display boycott signs. When one was discovered at the Dunkin Donuts in Waukegan, corporate sent someone to personally remove it.

Dunkin’ Donuts cracks down on open-borders franchisees


By Michelle Malkin • June 24, 2007 11:16 AM Last spring, I praised Dunkin’ Donuts for volunteering to participate in a government database program to verify that workers are here legally. The company was responding to customer concerns about illegal employees. Only 6,200 out of the nation’s 8 million employers participate in the screening program.

The company continues to be vigilant. The Star-Ledger reports today that Dunkin’ is suing franchisees that it says were knowingly employing illegal aliens:

[The company has] filed a lawsuit in federal court asking a judge to terminate the franchise agreement it has with two stores in Central Jersey, saying the owners knowingly accepted false documents, used false Social Security numbers and paid employees in cash.

The company has filed similar lawsuits seeking to sever ties with franchises in Boston, Atlanta and Florida, where it is has accused three franchises of hiring illegal immigrants.

The lawsuits come a year after Dunkin’ Donuts became the most well-known corporation to enroll in Basic Pilot, a voluntary U.S. Department of Homeland Security program that allows employers to perform electronic document checks to verify that applicants are eligible to work.

Under the Senate bill, the electronic verification program, currently used by less than 1 percent of all U.S. businesses, would become mandatory.

Dunkin’ Donuts officials declined to comment on the lawsuits.

In a written statement, company officials said that requiring its 5,100 stores to enroll in Basic Pilot “is the right thing to do for our franchisees, for Dunkin’ Brands, and most of all, for our franchisees’ workers.â€

We the undersigned demand that Carlyle Group and its subsidiaries (including Wheatland Tube and Dunkin Brands) immediately stop using Social Security Administration (SSA) No-match Letters and the Basic Pilot (E-Verify) program to unjustly fire and retaliate against workers. We also pledge to do all that we can to educate the public on Carlyle, and its subsidiaries misuse of these programs

No-match Letters and the Basic Pilot (E-Verify) program to unjustly fire and retaliate against workers.

"UNJUSTLY FIRE" a person who is illegally in the U.S. and/or has committed idenity theft! There is nothing unjust about that.

Isn't anyone who signs the petition guilty of aiding and abetting illegal aliens since it is directed at a federal immigration law.

The site itself is poorly done and gives little information.

We also pledge to do all that we can to educate the public on Carlyle, and its subsidiaries misuse of these programs.

'Educate the public' means propoganda.
They are confusing misuse with legal use.
They need to understand they are not in their home countries where corruption and bribery are an inner working of the government.
Matters are simplier here--obey the law.

Good fences make good neighbors.

I can feel a Boston Cream attack comming on...LOL

I believe you're right, azwreath. The culprit in the past hasn't been the national corporation, it's been some of the individual franchises.