tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8067827827765778211.post2438384256961169152..comments2023-09-28T04:32:44.757-05:00Comments on St. Blogustine: Tennesee Labor Union Ditches Labor Day For Muslim HolidayMatt K Cassenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532145678992291445noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8067827827765778211.post-23755813103586658722008-08-09T22:33:00.000-05:002008-08-09T22:33:00.000-05:00With all due respect, the five year plan sounds a ...With all due respect, the five year plan sounds a bit of a stretch here. Certainly no more so than government paying to retrain laid off workers for other careers. It simply seems that as long as the State Dept is helping to relocate refugees, they might as well offer to help companies like Swift extend the net even wider to include Detroit and other areas hard hit by changing economic factors.<BR/><BR/>Just saying it's better for a country to help its own first. That doesn't make us communist, IMHO. Thanks for your comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8067827827765778211.post-76894612916593112602008-08-09T21:09:00.000-05:002008-08-09T21:09:00.000-05:00Matt, as long as these immigrants are legal, I gue...Matt, as long as these immigrants are legal, I guess it could be argued that they should be directed to areas where they'd be more likely to be more likely to support themselves and their families.<BR/><BR/>I'm more than a little bit concerned about a federal policy that would offer U.S. citizens taxpayer dollars to move from one area of the country to another (based on federal employment analyses) to capitalize on national employment availability. <BR/>This sounds like a Russian or Chinese "Five Year Plan" to me, or a computerized "1984," where Big Brother can decide where domestic labor emigration ought to go (for the good of the country, of course.)<BR/><BR/>I'm still for the free market, in products, services, and labor.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work, my friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8067827827765778211.post-79800536582081220502008-08-08T20:14:00.000-05:002008-08-08T20:14:00.000-05:00You may be right.But what really irks me is that t...You may be right.<BR/><BR/>But what really irks me is that the State Department goes out of their way to move these Muslim refugees into clusters in areas where good paying jobs are too numerous for the home folks to fill, rather than the government offering tax breaks to these companies to offer to help pay to relocate American citizenry from areas where employment is scarce into areas like Shelbyville which so desperately needed employment after losing all their underpaid illegal alien workers. (nice run-on sentence)<BR/><BR/>As always, Paul, I appreciate your participation. You always bring much to the conversation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8067827827765778211.post-35837993514929373132008-08-08T19:44:00.000-05:002008-08-08T19:44:00.000-05:00Matt, as an old-time (retired) management labor la...Matt, as an old-time (retired) management labor lawyer, I think there may be a different wrinkle to this.<BR/><BR/>The article didn't exactly say that Tyson gave the union employees an EXTRA holiday. (Going from 7 to 8). It could well be that Tyson's TN plant employees always had 8 paid holidays, one of them being a "self-chosen" day, within management approval.<BR/><BR/>When the local union leaders initially caved to Muslim union membership pressure to require the Islamic holiday off for all employees, my guess is that management couldn't have cared less in economic terms. Eight paid days a year off is eight paid days a year off on the bottom line. Meanwhile, it's highly unusual, (and has been for years) for a company to grant additional benefits to employees these days, mid-contract. ("I know we're in the middle of a 3-year contract, but would you give us an additional holiday?" "Why sure, guys. The economy's doing so great, I'd be glad to!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com