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A major bakery on the Northwest Side once known for making Little Debbie snack cakes was sold earlier this month after an immigration audit cost the company about a third of its workers.
About 800 employees of the main Cloverhill Bakery on the Northwest Side and the company’s bakeries in Cicero and Romeoville lost their jobs when the audit found many were hired after presenting fake or stolen IDs.
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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.
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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.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/busine...-bakery-labor-issues-pit-blacks-vs-hispanics/
So as we can see, here is a direct example of illegal labor directly suppressing wages for Americans.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around how a party(Dem) who supports raising wages for low income workers supports one of the main contributors to keeping those wages low. Makes little sense to me.
Employees are supposed to be free from compensation discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, or disability. These rights are protected by the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/busine...-bakery-labor-issues-pit-blacks-vs-hispanics/
So as we can see, here is a direct example of illegal labor directly suppressing wages for Americans.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around how a party(Dem) who supports raising wages for low income workers supports one of the main contributors to keeping those wages low. Makes little sense to me.
The Dems are hypocritical that way.
Isn't it illegal to pay someone a lower salary just for being of a different race or nationality?
Ah yes, here we go:
https://www.mbradylaw.com/kansas-ci.../09/29/wage-discrimination-based-race-gender/
Sure it is.
Now back to the point. Do you support illegal immigrants at the expense of American workers? Specifically, the downward pressure on wages that results from cheap illegal labor?
Isn't it illegal to pay someone a lower salary just for being of a different race or nationality?
Ah yes, here we go:
https://www.mbradylaw.com/kansas-ci.../09/29/wage-discrimination-based-race-gender/
Since it's already against the law to hire illegals what would the purpose of that law serve.Rather than make this a Republican/Democrat issue, this actually has a very simple solution. Make a Federal law making it illegal to wage discriminate based on nationality...regardless of the status of employees' citizenship. And of course make the penalties debilitating enough to discourage breaking the rules.
Rather than make this a Republican/Democrat issue, this actually has a very simple solution. Make a Federal law making it illegal to wage discriminate based on nationality...regardless of the status of employees' citizenship. And of course make the penalties debilitating enough to discourage breaking the rules.
It is in California. You cannot discriminate in any way between citizens and illegals in California. AFAIK, under federal law it is against the law to hire any immigrant that does not have at the least, a green card. So California employers are breaking federal law.
No to put too fine a point on it, but an illegal alien for all intents and purposes is anonymous.
Since it's already against the law to hire illegals what would the purpose of that law serve.
Since it's already against the law to hire illegals what would the purpose of that law serve.
Stop making so much sense...
The Dems are hypocritical that way.
Now rightwingers are in favor of factory workers getting a 40% wage hike?
Okaaaaay.
Isn't it illegal to pay someone a lower salary just for being of a different race or nationality?
Ah yes, here we go:
https://www.mbradylaw.com/kansas-ci.../09/29/wage-discrimination-based-race-gender/
Why wouldn't we want to see our fellow Americans do better?
Yeah, and that law is really scaring the crap out of companies. The bakery hired 800 illegal immigrants. It's possible it's in the article and I'm missing it, but I found nothing about penalties.
So in other words, you're okay with illegal immigrants working in our country and taking jobs from American workers...
What’s wrong, not enough current bad news so you went back to February of last year to find something you could turn into a fake anti-Dem thread? Really pathetic. The primary point of the article was about tensions between blacks and Mexicans within a community, not illegal workers, and not the Democratic Party.I'm still trying to wrap my head around how a party(Dem) who supports raising wages for low income workers supports one of the main contributors to keeping those wages low. Makes little sense to me.
Gloms onto fake anti-Dem thread. Pathetic X2.The Dems are hypocritical that way.
Clearly the law against hiring illegal aliens itself isn't enough. Really strict penalties for wage discrimination would also remove the incentive for hiring illegal aliens in the first place.
You appear to be okay with it just so long as the employers pay the 800 illegal immigrants the same as they would a legal worker.
And why are they taking jobs from Americans? Because the law is not disincentivizing companies from hiring illegal aliens in order to pay them less. In fact, if the story in the article is anything to go by, the law is not disincentivizing them from hiring illegal aliens...period. Again, what penalties did the bakery pay?
You're not thinking this through. If a law prevents business from carrying out wage discrimination regardless of the citizenship status of the worker, there's no incentive to hire the illegal immigrants.
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