A real "Day Without Mexicans?"

[fireinmn]

Originally Posted by Daddy B

That's the implied thought I inferred from your post...

okay...dirty mind!

[traci]

[quote=JudyBluEyes][quote=tntsmith]Hey......I drive an Excursion...I also have 4 kids, 1 dog and 2 cats, oh and DH of course. Oldest son's hockey equipment takes up tons of room, and when we go to our cabin for the weekend that thing is STUFFED full!! So I am one of the few that really does need a big vehicle, oh and I don't drive around all day....Sometimes I can make a tank of gas last a month
Also....I can park that thing prob. better than an 18 wheeler driver could

You want to come out here to CA and teach some of these people how to park??

Sure....I really could give a class on it....at gymnastics I can park right between 2 SUV's and still have space to get in/out, and NOT ding anyones doors

[sctx]

Originally Posted by james

I predict zero impact

you would be correct sir.......zero as in less than 1%........with my workload and overtime schedule right now, that would cost my average worker about 1500 pesos.... I expect 100% attendence on May 1

[traci]

Originally Posted by sctx

you would be correct sir.......zero as in less than 1%........with my workload and overtime schedule right now, that would cost my average worker about 1500 pesos.... I expect 100% attendence on May 1

As does DH Scott!

[sctx]

Originally Posted by MWC

Americans should do "a day without leaving the house" to protest the outrageous gas prices. Just ridiculous, and I am really beginning to feel like marching and yelling.

yeah, and a few more months of increasing prices and you'll feel like a Mexican.....another year of it and you'll feel like a Euro

[Jacko]

Originally Posted by james

gasoline is too inexpensive in the US.

CAFE has dropped.

hunger for larger, more powerful vehicles is up.

on the road tonight, count the number of people driving large SUVs
without passengers, and ask yourself if there isn't a better way.

I like this new version of James!

[Jacko]

Originally Posted by Susie Q Roo

I canNOT believe that I am starting a thread that is going to end up being political but... I was forwarded an e-mail from a Mexican acquaintance that I thought was pretty interesting. I am curious to see if this actually happens. Also wondering about the specific motivation behind it. I'm going to show the original email and Altavista's poor translation, but the gist of it will come through.

Altavista's version:......E.U. HE MUST RECOGNIZE IMPORTANT And The VALUABLE Thing THAT THEY ARE OUR PEOPLE WHO LIVE And WORK ALLA

Alla? Allah? Well I know where this is coming from

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by james

gasoline is too inexpensive in the US.

CAFE has dropped.

hunger for larger, more powerful vehicles is up.

on the road tonight, count the number of people driving large SUVs
without passengers, and ask yourself if there isn't a better way.

I feel very good, surprisingly better than I thought I would, about giving up our gas guzzling truck (it was a van, but a Safari so it had a truck motor, truck suspension...was a truck) for our new deisel Jetta.

I have two kids...had no need for all those seats and all that space. If too many kids want to come over or need a ride somewhere, too bad...their mom's will have to pull some weight.

Oh, and the trunk is HUGE. It would fit at least 5 bodies....

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by PlayadelSoul

May 1st is Labor Day for most of the world.

Our labour day is in September.

[Jacko]

Originally Posted by PlayadelSoul

May 1st is Labor Day for most of the world.

Because of the Haymarket Riots in the U.S.....all this over an 8 hour workday...and this is why our Labor day is in September...

[blondeandblue]

I am General Manager of a luxury cosmetics company in So. California. The work is very labor-intensive, and we have a staff of about 225 production workers. 95% of them are Latino.

I was speaking to our Production Manager about the May 1st boycott yesterday. She is a Mexican immigrant who is now a US citizen. She tells me that the boycott is being heavily promoted in all forms of the Spanish-language media: TV, radio and print. She asked me if the workers could work Sunday, April 30th, as they are very serious about this boycott on May 1st. (Personally I think that kind of defeats the purpose, but our employees are very loyal to both "sides" of this issue.) The decision as to whether the boycott goes forward, according to what I hear, depends largely on what the Congress does. The employees in our factory favor the work-towards-citizenship for those who have lived and worked here, and no felony approach, as do most Americans I speak to. If the immigrants become felons, or citizenship is stripped from kids born here recently to undocumented parents, then the boycott will go forward. There are obviously a lot more specifics, but this is the short version.

I have no actual evidence here, just a long conversation with a woman I've known for several years. Whether or not the general population of immigrants can get together and accomplish this remains to be seen.

Edit-Things I wasn't clear on: First, our employees are mostly documented. I say mostly because even with identification that checks out, you can't always be sure. Second, when i said that our employees were loyal to both sides, I mean that while they want to support immigrants' rights, they are also very good, loyal employees that don't want to hurt their company. And while I'll keep most of my own opinion to myself, I will say that if there weren't so many crooked immigration lawyers who take people's money and do nothing for them, a lot of these "illegals" would have their documents by now.

[TAPPY]

Originally Posted by blondeandblue

I am General Manager of a luxury cosmetics company in So. California. The work is very labor-intensive, and we have a staff of about 225 production workers. 95% of them are Latino.

I was speaking to our Production Manager about the May 1st boycott yesterday. She is a Mexican immigrant who is now a US citizen. She tells me that the boycott is being heavily promoted in all forms of the Spanish-language media: TV, radio and print. She asked me if the workers could work Sunday, April 30th, as they are very serious about this boycott on May 1st. (Personally I think that kind of defeats the purpose, but our employees are very loyal to both "sides" of this issue.) The decision as to whether the boycott goes forward, according to what I hear, depends largely on what the Congress does. The employees in our factory favor the work-towards-citizenship for those who have lived and worked here, and no felony approach, as do most Americans I speak to. If the immigrants become felons, or citizenship is stripped from kids born here recently to undocumented parents, then the boycott will go forward. There are obviously a lot more specifics, but this is the short version.

I have no actual evidence here, just a long conversation with a woman I've known for several years. Whether or not the general population of immigrants can get together and accomplish this remains to be seen.

Edit-Things I wasn't clear on: First, our employees are mostly documented. I say mostly because even with identification that checks out, you can't always be sure. Second, when i said that our employees were loyal to both sides, I mean that while they want to support immigrants' rights, they are also very good, loyal employees that don't want to hurt their company. And while I'll keep most of my own opinion to myself, I will say that if there weren't so many crooked immigration lawyers who take people's money and do nothing for them, a lot of these "illegals" would have their documents by now.

Thanks for the good post....it is good to have some inside insight like this with out all the flaming !!!!

[Jacko]

Originally Posted by blondeandblue

I am General Manager of a luxury cosmetics company in So. California. The work is very labor-intensive, and we have a staff of about 225 production workers. 95% of them are Latino.

I was speaking to our Production Manager about the May 1st boycott yesterday. She is a Mexican immigrant who is now a US citizen. She tells me that the boycott is being heavily promoted in all forms of the Spanish-language media: TV, radio and print. She asked me if the workers could work Sunday, April 30th, as they are very serious about this boycott on May 1st. (Personally I think that kind of defeats the purpose, but our employees are very loyal to both "sides" of this issue.) The decision as to whether the boycott goes forward, according to what I hear, depends largely on what the Congress does. The employees in our factory favor the work-towards-citizenship for those who have lived and worked here, and no felony approach, as do most Americans I speak to. If the immigrants become felons, or citizenship is stripped from kids born here recently to undocumented parents, then the boycott will go forward. There are obviously a lot more specifics, but this is the short version.

I have no actual evidence here, just a long conversation with a woman I've known for several years. Whether or not the general population of immigrants can get together and accomplish this remains to be seen.

Edit-Things I wasn't clear on: First, our employees are mostly documented. I say mostly because even with identification that checks out, you can't always be sure. Second, when i said that our employees were loyal to both sides, I mean that while they want to support immigrants' rights, they are also very good, loyal employees that don't want to hurt their company. And while I'll keep most of my own opinion to myself, I will say that if there weren't so many crooked immigration lawyers who take people's money and do nothing for them, a lot of these "illegals" would have their documents by now.

And that matches my "real-life" experience!

[james]

Originally Posted by Ginger

I feel very good ... about giving up our gas guzzling truck (it was a van, but a Safari so it had a truck motor, truck suspension...

if it was between 85 and 91 model years I might have built part of it. All of those were made in Baltimore's GMAD plant, home of Chessie the Quality crab, where I worked for 6 summers. Yep, I paid UAW dues (also paid teamster dues the following summer loading rail cars full of the same vans).

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by james

if it was between 85 and 91 model years I might have built part of it. All of those were made in Baltimore's GMAD plant, home of Chessie the Quality crab, where I worked for 6 summers. Yep, I paid UAW dues (also paid teamster dues the following summer loading rail cars full of the same vans).

Nope, it's a 2006.

Interesting job that musta been. Teamsters, eh? My bro-in-law's a teamster, incessant Jimmy Hoffa jokes....