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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

randomelement

(128 posts)

7. Let's hear it for our corporate masters

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 04:21 PM

Jun 2015

the very "Captains of Industry". We don't support slavery in good old America, but we'll help another country with their "indentured servants" in a heartbeat.

Here's a rhetorical question - if they keep going to cheaper and cheaper labor (and you know they will), sooner or later it will happen that some group will be more than happy to simply work for food.

Will Disney then accept an apple or maybe lettuce and tomatoes for admission?

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Laid off workers at Disney made to train foreign replacements [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2015 OP

I imagine old Faux pas Jun 2015 #1

I guess the $700 per person just isn't enough to pay quality people pipoman Jun 2015 #2

We can't afford rich people. GeorgeGist Jun 2015 #3

New Disney attraction--Island of the Purged and Replacement Employees. Theme song is it's kairos12 Jun 2015 #4

According to federal guidelines, the visas are intended for foreigners discrete positions BlueJazz Jun 2015 #5

"should not" Enthusiast Jun 2015 #18

Amen. We could write a story the size of "War & Peace" regardring Visas and Should Nots. BlueJazz Jun 2015 #19

Has Mickey been laid off yet? SoapBox Jun 2015 #6

I hear his replacement is Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2015 #13

Let's hear it for our corporate masters randomelement Jun 2015 #7

The corporate masters still want higher revenues IronLionZion Jun 2015 #10

Boycott Disney. Get rid of H1-B visas. JDPriestly Jun 2015 #8

FYI, Just started June 4. It's a beginning.. appalachiablue Jun 2015 #24

signed (nt) Babel_17 Jun 2015 #25

This should be an OP n/t arcane1 Jun 2015 #28

# 20. created the post. Good idea if you want to do an OP about it. I might repost the appalachiablue Jun 2015 #30

It's ok, I asked them the same thing :) arcane1 Jun 2015 #31

I want to reiterate that I am not anti-immigration. I am opposed to a program that "allows" JDPriestly Jun 2015 #33

I hold the same views, and am not anti-immigration in any way. This is an exploitive appalachiablue Jun 2015 #34

I want to know Hillary Clinton's views on this, her honest views, not the ones she presents JDPriestly Jun 2015 #35

That's a scary possibility, an underclass of near slaves awaiting citizenship that never happens. appalachiablue Jun 2015 #36

Even more basic, IIRC ... Babel_17 Jun 2015 #37

"whether they complement American workers or displace them" douggg Jun 2015 #9

What a shame shame shame SummerSnow Jun 2015 #11

If my employer told me I was being replaced with a cheaper worker and had to train them... Initech Jun 2015 #12

Two months pay is two months pay Thor_MN Jun 2015 #16

Work visas in OTHER countries are damned hard to get... Hulk Jun 2015 #14

In order to get a work visa in Mexico... Hulk Jun 2015 #15

This is bullshit! Disney should be denounced in no uncertain terms. Enthusiast Jun 2015 #17

I put up this White House petition to end the program. 47of74 Jun 2015 #20

I signed; I'm number two. antiquie Jun 2015 #21

Just signed ... Babel_17 Jun 2015 #26

Thank you so much! I just signed & am on there. This is so important. appalachiablue Jun 2015 #22

Can you make an OP of this? arcane1 Jun 2015 #29

Where at? 47of74 Jun 2015 #32

Kicked and recc'd, this crap is intended to fly under the radar Babel_17 Jun 2015 #23

tick tick tick randys1 Jun 2015 #27