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Immigrant Workers Fired for Missing Work

In Chicago, 21 immigrant workers were fired for missing work without authorization to attend the “Day without Immigrants” protest.

Employees had been notified orally and by letters posted in the plants that they would be fired if they missed work without authorization, the statement said.

“Many of these issues are near and dear to our hearts … but Wolverine cannot allow these issues to stop our business,” Bonahoom said. “When a large number of employees leave on a particular day, we cannot service our customers.”

“This to me sends a very strong message that if you try to defend your rights, there are going to be sanctions against you,” said Elena Herrada, one of several advocates hoping to meet with officials of the company, Wolverine Packing, to try to get some of the workers rehired.

NO. This sends a very strong message that if you don’t honor your obligations — you know, by showing up to work like you’re supposed to — you will be held responsible. If I had decided to skip work without authorization on Monday to go counter the protests, I would have been fired too (and rightfully so).

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On Tuesday, I fired 4 Mexican workers — who we were paying ~$30/hour each for remodeling work on our house — for not showing up to work on Monday. They didn’t ask us if they could miss a day to attend the Austin-area protest, nor did they bother to call and let us know they wouldn’t be showing up for work.

Looks like, for some, a “Day without Immigrants” turned into “Immigrants without Jobs”. Maybe they should have held their protests on their own time, like on a Saturday maybe.

Welcome to America, amigos.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | Trackback |

6 Responses to “Immigrant Workers Fired for Missing Work”

Ok, you supply the paint, brushes and brew and you have another crew member ready for duty sir!

Left by SIT on April 12th, 2006 at 1:29 pm

Good!

Left by dianne on April 12th, 2006 at 4:42 pm

I hear that they will be having a nation wide boycott on May1 to co-incide with a Mexican holiday. I figure that if they wanna boycott buying things, why cant they boycott, using up our hospitals and staying off the road in those trucks. Maybe we will see a little decrease in our insurance.

Left by chris on April 12th, 2006 at 4:46 pm

Chris , I read where someone else asked something similar — that any illegal to please extend their boycott to include our hospitals, schools, welfare offices, etc.

Sounds reasonable enough to me.

Left by Robbie on April 12th, 2006 at 5:19 pm

The way I see it, is that evry thing there doing here they should do in Mexico. Stand up to the government the way black people did,there the ones who started the civl rights movements.So realy they sould thank black people.

Left by Joseph Dale Patterson 3 on April 28th, 2006 at 8:52 am

And another thing, if your illeagl YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS!!! Im only 15 and this subject really ticks me off, we neeed to start involving the kids more often.We have things to say too, and I think we could help contribute in this political battle. Lets get more security at the border and deport the illeagals

Left by Joseph Dale Patterson 3 on April 28th, 2006 at 8:59 am

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