Several union officials said Swift, which has denied knowingly hiring illegal workers and has not been charged, improved its wages, benefits and bonuses before the raids.
“They're trying to staff up their plants and they've been raising their wages the past few weeks,” said United Food and Commercial Workers spokeswoman Jill Cashen. “To me, it's an example that when you make the job more attractive you get a different kind of applicant.”
Imagine that. When big business has to pay workers a decent wage, it will follow the law. Of course this will raise prices for meat, but I've got no complaints there. We should all pay what things are worth. People like me can't complain about the law being broken, yet expect to profit by it on our grocery bills. If my family can't afford to eat as much meat, we'll just do without.
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I don't doubt that vegetarianism isn't stupid. It's just that it isn't any fun.>
I can't decide is Anthony King is being sarcastic or not.
Rod, I don't think you are an elitist pig because you understand the harm that "cheap" meat causes to our environment and our families. There are so many hormones floating around out there that girls are hitting puberty at astonishingly young ages and grown-ups are infertile.
Americans are amazingly fat and eating healthy, grass-fed meat less often than we eat cheapmeat now can only improve things here.>
Europe and Canada were smart enough to ban bovine growth hormone, America went the way of corporate profits. Americans in general are getting BIGGER {not just in terms of weight, but in height] and at far faster rates then "better access to food" would explain between generations and through the years. Bovine growth hormone IS affecting this.>
Vegetarianism isn't as bad as it appears to the typical American. The problem is that most of what we consider vegetarian food is food that is meant to be a side dish for meat, or is a poor substitute of meat. Since becoming married to an Indian I've realized vegetarian food can be very very tasty. They've been eating vegetarian for centuries, and their wide variety of lentils, vegetables, spices and breads make vegetarianism pretty easy. Not that I've gone all the way. I still like meat, but I eat significantly less of it. If thats the price to pay for fair wages and grain-fed hormone free meat, it seems like almost no price at all.>
From the reading of Rod's blog, this is not about eating less meat and more veggies, this is about whether we as Americans can justify using ILLEGAL workers to keep our grocery bill down
With 20 million illegal aliens now working in the U.S., some will argue that our costs would rise drastically if we were to suddenly start enforcing our immigration laws. Others point to the saving in tax revenues should illegals stop receiving government benefits. And there are those who would point out the HUMAN costs in putting teeth into our immigration laws.
The Beliefnet U.S. Politics Board (http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/discussion_list.asp?boardID=425">) is currently is hosting several debate threads on immigration. They are:
"Hate That Fence"
"Your Country?"
Good Laws & Bad Laws"
"Are Borders "Purist"?"
Readers here are welcome to join the debate.
Thanks,>
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