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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCompany fires 18 employees after they participated in 'A Day Without Immigrants'
http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/18-people-fired-after-participating-in-a-day-without-immigrantsThis is so disgusting. I wonder how many others were fired throughout the country for protesting unfairness.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)I hope that company suffers deeply for its stupidity. Apparently, it needed those employees, and now doesn't have them. Good luck to them in replacing them in that backwater town.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)are. Boycott those businesses and organizations and explain why.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028671520
still_one
(92,060 posts)working hours?
I understand and support the protest, but why couldn't it be done on the weekend?
FSogol
(45,435 posts)Averagegrunt
(62 posts)They didn't show up to work. A companies priority is money if they have workers that do not show up to work what did anyone expect?
FSogol
(45,435 posts)limited menu.
You either value your workers or you don't.
Averagegrunt
(62 posts)But if a company is in an area where workers are a surplus it's easier to fire those who won't work and replace them the same day with people who will.
JCanete
(5,272 posts)do a protest on a day and in a way that nobody takes notice.
And it does ultimately say something about the ownership of this company.
FSogol
(45,435 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 18, 2017, 08:20 PM - Edit history (1)
protest? Bosses that fired employees over this suck. Bosses that supported it will reap the benefits via employee morale and support.
panader0
(25,816 posts)really badly needed. So they're shooting themselves in the foot. Not good. Sad.
Averagegrunt
(62 posts)It makes even more sense that they were fired.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I'm not understanding your idea of "sense".
When you don't show up to work you get fired. When those workers made the choice of standing up for their beleifs in the form of not coming to work they knew the exact thing at stack, their jobs. I'm glad they stood up but I'm not mad at the employer for doing what they had to do economically.
panader0
(25,816 posts)The owner states he needed them very badly. So he fires them for missing
one day for a very good reason. Obviously, he didn't need them since now he
has 18 less workers. That makes zero sense, as does your defense of this
bigoted asshole.
Averagegrunt
(62 posts)Read the post under this one. Also are they bigoted? I don't know never met those people. We can't label anyone if we don't know them.
JCanete
(5,272 posts)to protest who didn't get fired throughout the nation? The employer didn't win by firing them, unless the point was to chill any notion that people should organize and fight for their rights, and even then, I would suggest this decision only catalyzes such a movement.
It's not like the company was likely to see another strike any time soon, and now they need 12 new employees.
That's kind of my point. No company can sustain firing employees.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Averagegrunt
(62 posts)We had a none union strike. The reason strikes are effective is because it shows the company they need the workers just as bad if not more so than the workers need the company.
It is basic attrition who at lasts who. Can they can continue to fill those empty positions and fire people who protest via strike? I don't know but anyone who does not believe that was the goal of this demonstration is either miss guided or dumb.
That company played directly into the hands of the people who started this wether either side knows it or not.
Kingofalldems
(38,419 posts)Is that the message?
Kingofalldems
(38,419 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)true. I have a lot of friends and family (wink wink) in the Nashville area and they aren't going to like this one bit. My cousin also works for the local paper there so I'm going to make sure they know about this.
spanone
(135,781 posts)Averagegrunt
(62 posts)They were terminated because they didn't come to work. If they were going to be terminated for their political beleifs they would have found a reason long ago to fire them.
spanone
(135,781 posts)All the better. If more of the employees share the views of those fired they may walk out leaving that company even worse off or not show up the next day as well forcing the hand?
spanone
(135,781 posts)Averagegrunt
(62 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)right-wing, right-to-work asswipe employers in this thread is, as Hillary said, deplorable.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Others are listed on the site.
Sheraton Hotel, Opryland Hotel, Averite Express, Rich Products, Suntrust Bank, Pinnacle Financial Partners, Vanderbilt University.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)I wonder how the Catholic Church feels that they worked on
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)is a wonderful thing isn't it?
We don't have to worry about our families being deported and torn apart.
billh58
(6,635 posts)Vinca
(50,236 posts)THE TRUMPS HADN'T APPLIED FOR FOREIGN WORKER VISAS.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)What a shocker!
Calling in or no-show on a busy retail day/weekend = you're fired.
Granted, some employers are more assholish than others and I get it, they are firing specifically due to employee activism.
Nonetheless every day employers fire countless retail/food service slaves for calling in sick/absent for any old dang reason.
In any case, it does piss me off and no, it shouldn't be allowed.
This example does show the embarrassing lack of workers rights in this country.