Illegals lose jobs. Whining ensues, as always.
Dear Gate-crashers,
Go whine and snivel to somebody else. Plenty of US citizens have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Nobody invited you to come and you are free to leave at any time. You show a total contempt for our laws and borders then start whining when you get caught? What a bunch of pukes. It's like somebody cheating on their taxes for years then complaining when they get caught. "Well, I've been cheating for years and getting away with it. You don't expect me to pay up now, do you? That's just not fair." My ass.
Boo-Hoo
"A desktop raid" is how the workers' representative, John M. Grant, vice president of Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, described the scenario.
Overhill, a $200-million-a-year company that provides frozen meals for clients such as American Airlines, Panda Express, Safeway and Jenny Craig, says it had no choice: An Internal Revenue Service audit found that 260 workers had provided "invalid or fraudulent" Social Security numbers. The government took no action against the workers. But Overhill did: All of the employees were fired May 31.
But the Overhill case illustrates how desktop raids can ravage immigrant families, even without arrests and deportation. Employers facing stiff fines and potential prison terms for hiring illegal immigrants may decide to fire employees who have suspect paperwork. The kicker? I don't think the employer is supposed to fire an employee for having screwed up numbers. But, here, it sounded like, "Hey, assholes. There's a problem with your numbers and you have 30 days to fix it or you're toast.
"We killed ourselves on the assembly lines for years, many of us have injuries from repetitive motion," said Bohemia Agustiano, 38, a mother of four from Huntington Park. "Now we're worth nothing. We're out on the streets. This is unjust, no one should be treated this way." Ahh, is your ass legally entitled to be here? Then shut your whining pie hole.
Overhill says it gave the workers 30 days to correct the problem with the IRS and provide the company with verification, but none did so. NONE DID SO?? Gee, I wonder why?
"This is not something the company planned to do, it's not something the company initiated and it's not something that benefited the company," said Alexander Auerbach, a spokesman for Overhill, which dismissed about a quarter of its 1,000-plus workforce. "Quite the contrary. We lost very good, very loyal employees." Typical of many employers, they don't care if they're legal or not, just so they're good little slaves.
Overhill, whose workforce is largely Latino, says it has no idea of the legal status of the fired employees. No one has formally accused them of being illegal immigrants. Still, the company argues that it risked potential criminal liability under tax and immigration laws if it continued to employ them after the IRS audit.
Go whine and snivel to somebody else. Plenty of US citizens have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Nobody invited you to come and you are free to leave at any time. You show a total contempt for our laws and borders then start whining when you get caught? What a bunch of pukes. It's like somebody cheating on their taxes for years then complaining when they get caught. "Well, I've been cheating for years and getting away with it. You don't expect me to pay up now, do you? That's just not fair." My ass.
Boo-Hoo
"A desktop raid" is how the workers' representative, John M. Grant, vice president of Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, described the scenario.
Overhill, a $200-million-a-year company that provides frozen meals for clients such as American Airlines, Panda Express, Safeway and Jenny Craig, says it had no choice: An Internal Revenue Service audit found that 260 workers had provided "invalid or fraudulent" Social Security numbers. The government took no action against the workers. But Overhill did: All of the employees were fired May 31.
But the Overhill case illustrates how desktop raids can ravage immigrant families, even without arrests and deportation. Employers facing stiff fines and potential prison terms for hiring illegal immigrants may decide to fire employees who have suspect paperwork. The kicker? I don't think the employer is supposed to fire an employee for having screwed up numbers. But, here, it sounded like, "Hey, assholes. There's a problem with your numbers and you have 30 days to fix it or you're toast.
"We killed ourselves on the assembly lines for years, many of us have injuries from repetitive motion," said Bohemia Agustiano, 38, a mother of four from Huntington Park. "Now we're worth nothing. We're out on the streets. This is unjust, no one should be treated this way." Ahh, is your ass legally entitled to be here? Then shut your whining pie hole.
Overhill says it gave the workers 30 days to correct the problem with the IRS and provide the company with verification, but none did so. NONE DID SO?? Gee, I wonder why?
"This is not something the company planned to do, it's not something the company initiated and it's not something that benefited the company," said Alexander Auerbach, a spokesman for Overhill, which dismissed about a quarter of its 1,000-plus workforce. "Quite the contrary. We lost very good, very loyal employees." Typical of many employers, they don't care if they're legal or not, just so they're good little slaves.
Overhill, whose workforce is largely Latino, says it has no idea of the legal status of the fired employees. No one has formally accused them of being illegal immigrants. Still, the company argues that it risked potential criminal liability under tax and immigration laws if it continued to employ them after the IRS audit.
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