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April 12, 2006

Skip Work, Get Fired, Even For You "Immigrants"

I love this story, it just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

A manager at a Detroit meatpacking plant said Monday that 15 immigrant women were fired last month after attending a protest for immigrant rights. He said they had been told that they would be terminated if they missed work on the day of the protest.

But the workers and an activist working on their behalf said the women were given no such assurances. If the workers knew they would have been fired for attending the March 27 rally in Detroit, they never would have skipped the morning shift, said Elena Herrada, a Detroit activist who is trying to help the women get their jobs back.

Herrada and about 20 union officials went Monday to Wolverine Packing Co. offices on Rivard to inquire about what happened. They were given a letter signed by general manager Jay Bonahoom, explaining why the workers were terminated.

Some of the Wolverine workers were undocumented, Herrada and one of the workers said, and wanted to march in the Detroit rally to show their support for immigrant rights.

Upon returning from their excursion, a supervisor told them to clean out their lockers and go home. Amen.

Now, for us law abiding, hard working Americans, if we just skip out of work, we expect to be reprimanded, and if warned about being terminated, we would likely stay at work. At least, I would. But no, these illegal leaches are whining.

They were fired "for standing up for their rights," Herrada said.

The fired workers were natives of Mexico and many had worked at the plant for several years. Most have children and are worried about supporting their families, Herrada said.

"It was not fair,'" said Mercedes, a 31-year-old Detroit woman who attended the rally and was fired. "We went to fight for our rights." Mercedes is undocumented and asked that her last name not be used.

"It was really unfair of a company to do that," said Edith Castillo, head of the Detroit-based Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development.

Welcome to America, a land where if you want to keep your job, you must go to it. Rallies are not "get out of work free" cards, and "standing up for your rights" is not equivalent to vacation or sick time. What do you expect from people who have grown accustom to laws not being enforced...once again, they are looking for amnesty.

But let's not lose sight of the fact that any of these recently fired eomployees are illegal aliens, they shouldn't be work anyway, as under current immigration law, it is illegal to hire an illegal alien.

Good riddance, go back to Mexico and work there, punks, and take your families with you.

Posted by Aaron at April 12, 2006 12:56 PM

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