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:: Sunday, January 18, 2004 ::
Immigration’s Destruction Of America’s Middle Class By Frosty Wooldridge
Jack Johnson, not his real name, was in management before cutbacks. 'I am a heavy equipment operator today and we work in the refineries around Chicago,' he said. 'I work on the 'turn-a-rounds' that refineries have once a year when they shut operations down.'
His working arena includes several different trades--carpenters, operators, ironworkers, boilermakers, electricians and laborers. This particular refinery, Exxon-Mobil is non-union. In this area the only way to get enough help is to have employees fill what jobs they want filled. After the bulk of the work is finished, they start laying off all the union people they can. But what they do is disturbing from his standpoint.
'During this time,' he said, 'Exxon-Mobil has a company named Star-Con out of Manhattan, Illinois, which is totally non-union, to do a lot of the labor that involves very hazardous work. The people they bring in are illegal aliens that can't read, write or speak English.'------------------------------------------- posted 3:11 PM :: reference link ::
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