Mr. Bruskin, the union organizer, said Smithfield had a history of threatening immigrants with deportation if they tried to unionize. The union has organized a national campaign to discourage consumers from buying Smithfield products.
The Tar Heel plant held elections in 1994 and 1997 to determine if the workers wanted to join the union. The union lost, but last May a federal appeals court threw out the 1997 election, finding that the company had engaged in "intense and widespread coercion" to block the union.
Stepping up enforcement actions nationwide, the immigration agency also deported more than 750 immigrants this week who were arrested in roundups in Los Angeles. More than 150 of the immigrants were fugitives from deportation proceedings, officials said. *******************************
The employing class knows that it is hiring "illegals". It knows that the documents presented are forged. As long as the "illegals" stay submissive, the capitalists are willing to dominate, exploit and turn a blind eye to their own bourgeois laws. But when the workers start standing up for their rights, the bosses bust them.
Throw the bosses in jail for knowingly breaking the law, for using the law to stop the workers from organizing?
"Yay", says I.
But that'll never happen in a capitalist democracy because, in reality, we're NOT all equal under the law. We might as well wait until all the bossses become generous.
Regards, Mike B)
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