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"Larry (Scratch)" <Scratch@Tigard.OR.com> wrote in message
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> Curt wrote:

> >>> What's the "right thing for this nation" that's separate from the
right
> > to
> >>> refuse to work unpaid OT, the right to unionize, the right of legal
> > workers
> >>> not to have their wages depressed by illegal low paid labor, the right
> > to
> >>> file OSHA complaints, etc?
> >>>
> >>> Curt
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hey curt, this week end I have 3 guys coming over to cut 3 big branches
> >> off of a tree that is over my house in Tigard. They normally get paid
> >> during the week $13hr I plan to pay them $20hr yet I am a republican
> >> that does not hire union people. What do you call that? Just curious.
> >> Like I say for you it has to do with the Union NOT what is right.
> >
> > Well, you just took a hard right turn. I have no idea why you'd think
I'd
> > disapprove of you hiring a guy, union or not, to limb a tree. I don't
have a
> > dog in that fight. I don't even think it's a fight.
> >
> > Curt
> >
> >
>
> Maybe I should mention these guys are Hispanic hard working and speak
> very little English. Is this taking advantage of them? or do you think I
> am treating them fair. I get the impression that you think employers
> abuse those less fortunate and take advantage of low pay.  and want to
> hire illegals for this purpose. Was just curious.

I don't know that hiring a guy to limb your tree is comparable to hiring an
illegal to work in your meat packing plant at sub par wages, for more than
40hrs a week, without paying overtime, and snitching him off to la Migra
when he complains. I don't know why you would think so either.

Curt