Rick wrote on August 26, 2007 01:26 AM: Illegal immigration is due to corruption and greed found on both sides of the US/Mexico border. Mexico and other country's governments pocket a great deal of the wealth generated within their borders and won't take care of their own people. The U. S. businesses want to keep their bottom lines as profitable as possible, even if it means hiring illegal immigrants, who provide cheap labor. However, cheap labor does not come at a cheap price, considering what illegal immigration is costing this country and society, directly and indirectly.
The Almighty Dollar is all that matters, to all involved in illegal immigration, and even to the unions that represent these people.

Joe C wrote on August 25, 2007 04:21 PM: McGrath, there is not a simple answer to the question.
Around twenty years ago, Hispanic organizations came up with an idea to get more of their own working.
Saying they were discriminated against in the work force. They were willing to offer business cheaper labor. Also the plan called for more involvement in politics, community and church. Plus get more of hispanic's into hiring positions.
For many reasons including institutionalized racism blacks held many of the unskilled jobs held by illegals now. Some of these jobs at least allowed black a certain standard of life. Lets not forget factory and manufacturing jobs also.
Business jumped on the cheap labor idea, also morphing it to include illegal aliens.

Both my wife and I have worked in management in very diversified fields and when it comes to job slackers, no one race sticks out.
Why would an American go to work in a job with stagnate wages, unsafe working conditions, and also not able to communicate to your boss or co-workers.
We are in a wave of racist hate against whites, blacks, and others by an invading force with many agendas, supported by greedy business.
If such a great people with so many family values and ready to work so hard, why are they fleeing the country they love. By their repeated claim of values, you would think the country they left would be paradise.
Whether they are hard workers or not, the fact they can break immigration laws, use fake or stolen ID and blame the U.S. for their woe’s, is more of their true character, criminal.
The illegal alien issue has many agendas and is not simple, but the simplest answer for your question, cheap labor.
It’s not progress to destroy someone else’s standard of life just to improve yours.

McGrath wrote on August 25, 2007 02:41 PM: Why have Black Americans been hard hit by illegal aliens? Could it be that illegal aliens are willing to work harder than Black Americans? Seriously, why would an employer hire an illegal alien if there were legal Americans, any color, willing to take those jobs?

Cynthia wrote on August 25, 2007 01:46 PM: Have your "professional" photographer pay attention to detail, the lady in the front row has her legs spread apart, a different angel would have been better. Or you could hire someone with more experience!

Joe C wrote on August 25, 2007 12:27 PM: If you are going to write racist statements at least be person enough to use your real name if this is what you believe in.

Truly if you are against illegal immigration and you want an end to the problem, racist language like that written by DWIF only helps the illegal immigration cause.

So if your not smart enough to understand that, please don’t help the side your supposedly against.
It only makes it tougher for us who understand the problem and are actually doing something about it, besides posting here.
Possibly the poster isn’t what they claim to represent.

DWIF wrote on August 25, 2007 12:07 PM: What do you call all of the blacks swimming across the atlantic ocean back to Africa with a mexican under each arm?


A Good Start..... OH!!!

patriot wrote on August 25, 2007 10:35 AM: Key line, SOME EMPLOYEES,not that id call it pandering to our questionably legal employess.But lets give them higher gratuity so thats 2 raises to 1, ans build them affordable housing projects, and provide legal representation for them, but no this union would never pander to our illegal buddies would it????

Lee Yarbrough wrote on August 25, 2007 10:15 AM: What I am wondering about is why only 7000 of 21,000 union employees felt the need to vote?

Has to make one think that maybe the union does not want all the employees voting.

Does only one third of the workers really care about their jobs that much?

patriot wrote on August 25, 2007 09:23 AM: Well mGM employee either your blind, dissalusioned,illegal,or management, cause there is so much racial favoratism in this company, just see how many non hispanics have recieved tipping jobs in last 10years, and if you see a kitchen worker or cook that isnt hispanic, youve truly hit a rare find.Of course all well with you cause il bet your 1 of those hispanics getting the good tipping jobs , i rthink it would be more acccuraTE TO BE REALISTIC AND CHANGE THE NAME FROM CULINARY UNION, TO THE LATIN LABORORS CENTER!!! AND YES I WORK WITHIN THE COMPANY ALSO

Joe C wrote on August 25, 2007 08:13 AM: I have never been in a union but understand how important unions are for working people in general raising wages to compete and keep workers in other fields.

Although if you look at the pictures supplied by the RJ there is few if any white Americans and I didn’t see one black American in the crowd.
It would be great if the hotels hired a diversity of minority, not filling up departments with cheap illegal labor.
The only time the radical Hispanic Culinary union started acting like a union is once they filled most of the jobs with there own.
Black Americans in Vegas has been hit hard because of illegal aliens.
Hard for non-Spanish speaking Americans to work together especially when morning briefing are in Spanish, it’s not that we won’t take these jobs we have been displaced.

The contract sounds great from the article, too bad it’s not benefiting Americans.
Having lived in Vegas since 1977 and most of the jobs that were in the Culinary union were very diversified, white black, Hispanic, Asian, and new immigrant, now just Hispanic.
I guess we know where the hate and racism is, hardly diversified when you force all out but your own.
Our government should be proud; they have succeeding in giving our country away.
Thanks Reid, I’ll bet he has a hard time understanding the contempt for him and his kind.
The pictures speak loudly.