Thread: Labor Rights Week included Illegals, Mex. Consul

Food and Commercial Workers Join Mexican Consul General to Launch Celebration of "Labor Rights Week" as Labor Day 2009 Approaches

Local Unions Partner with Mexican Consulate in Thirteen Cities to Offer Innovative Worker Rights Programming

* Press Release
* Source: United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
* On Monday August 31, 2009, 11:11 am EDT



CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is proud to partner with the Embassy of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Labor and allied organizations to promote the first “Semana de Derechos Laboralesâ€

With all the unemployed in this country, have any of these employers even tried to find legal workers? That father with four kids to feed that got laid off and ran out of unemployment will do his best to provide for the family any way and any how. And who did these jobs before the influx of cheap illegal labor?
I still don't like that the emphasis on getting a college degree as success. There are many Americans not qualified, while there are a load qualified to doing what our previous generations did--WORK for a living wage, and with cheap illegals even than is being taken away.

This is a disgusting story. So many Americans are losing and/or have lost their jobs to illegals, it is blantantly un-fair.

Originally Posted by vortex

With all the unemployed in this country, have any of these employers even tried to find legal workers? That father with four kids to feed that got laid off and ran out of unemployment will do his best to provide for the family any way and any how. And who did these jobs before the influx of cheap illegal labor?
I still don't like that the emphasis on getting a college degree as success. There are many Americans not qualified, while there are a load qualified to doing what our previous generations did--WORK for a living wage, and with cheap illegals even than is being taken away.

You are so right, Vortex. The Educational lobby is brainwashing kids into thinking they will never have to get sweaty, dirty or physically fatigued to make a living. They grow up with the idea nowadays, instead of kid jobs they play video games. And that is why this country has imported more foreign workers--legal or illegal. It establishes a vicious cycle. The kids and young adults just figure that manual jobs will be taken by illegal immigrants.

I mentioned to my youngish nephew that the Mexicans could be sent home. He said " They'll just come back." That's their whole attitude it seems. But I think they are starting to wise up as the older ones have a lot of trouble finding jobs.