But its not the first time we've seen this. Prison workers Unions have been fighting for destructive legislation for decades.

Union unfortunately doesn't always equal good. I will always support the rights of people to organize and make a better life for themselves but this steps into disgusting territory and totally disregards the concept of solidarity. We should be organizing these fine people not throwing them out of our country.



Phil Ochs sang about bullshit like this decades ago.

There is no other reason for bringing in masses of cheap labor. It's all done for the rich capitalist so he can make more money by paying the people who do the work less and less and less.

Yes, I feel sorry for poor people in other countries. But they have absolutely NO Right to come here and work. I don't think we should deport immigrants, nor do I think they should be prosecuted. I just think they should not be allowed to work here and those people who employ them illegally should be fined and imprisoned.

Farm migrant workers should Not be allowed either. If farmers, like me, can't pay a decent salary to their workers then they don't deserve to run a farm. Why should huge farms be allowed to get cheap labor and then compete with people like me who are required to follow the law.

I feel torn, always, between wanting everyone to have a better place to live, and the people who exploit them and our local unemployed and underpaid laborers.

IT workers are also being destroyed by cheap labor from India, and American companies should be penalized when they strangle our USA workers for the benefit of bigger and Scrooge-like corporations whose profits are enormous and whose executive salaries are scandelous.

Slavery is back and the whip wielders are disguised as Microsoft, IBM and Apple, not to mention huge agribusinesses who swamp the little farmers we have depended on for centuries. A fond goodbye to the great middle class many of us were born enjoying. Shame on the USA! I desperately want to hear that wonderful refrain, "Look for the Union label."

We are serfs and the war cry is "Damn the Unions; Full Speed Ahead."

We all need to buy and support, verbally, USA made goods. While we cannot always work our budget without "imported goods" , we can up our percentage of made in the USA purchases. We need to stop stomping on our own feet. It hurts, it really hurts.

like field work (which I've done)

like washing dishes (which I've done)

like fast food (which I've done)

like small electronics factory work (which I've done)

like computer programming (which I;ve done)

My family has been in the midwest since the 1850s, yet I've never become an American, because I've done all the jobs 'Americans wont do'

(and so did all of my classmates, in the college town I grew up in, they may not have done all of them, but all did some of them)

-Laelth