Company fires 18 employees after they participated in 'A Day Without Immigrants'

[yeoman6987]

http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/18-people-fired-after-participating-in-a-day-without-immigrants



This is so disgusting. I wonder how many others were fired throughout the country for protesting unfairness.

[MineralMan]

1. That was inevitable, really.

I hope that company suffers deeply for its stupidity. Apparently, it needed those employees, and now doesn't have them. Good luck to them in replacing them in that backwater town.

[nikibatts]

2. SHUT THEM DOWN!!

[Blue_true]

21. I agree. Find out who their commercial and government customers

are. Boycott those businesses and organizations and explain why.

[pinboy3niner]

3. 12 fired from Oklahoma bar & grill

Oklahoma restaurant fires 12 workers after Day Without Immigrants
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028671520

[still_one]

4. 20 people took off work to march for the unfairness. Why was it done during

working hours?

I understand and support the protest, but why couldn't it be done on the weekend?

[FSogol]

6. Weekends are the busiest time for most low-paying jobs.

[Averagegrunt]

5. Of course

They didn't show up to work. A companies priority is money if they have workers that do not show up to work what did anyone expect?

[FSogol]

7. In DC, the owners made do with the other staff that showed up, closed in solidarity, or offered a

limited menu.

You either value your workers or you don't.

[Averagegrunt]

8. That's awesome

But if a company is in an area where workers are a surplus it's easier to fire those who won't work and replace them the same day with people who will.

[JCanete]

23. That's true. Its a risk these workers were willing to take. It kind of doesn't make sense to

do a protest on a day and in a way that nobody takes notice.

And it does ultimately say something about the ownership of this company.

[FSogol]

35. Do you think it is less costly to hire and train new employees than cut some slack for a 1 day

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protest? Bosses that fired employees over this suck. Bosses that supported it will reap the benefits via employee morale and support.

[panader0]

9. In their statement the company said they were fired because they were

really badly needed. So they're shooting themselves in the foot. Not good. Sad.

[Averagegrunt]

11. Of course!

It makes even more sense that they were fired.

[panader0]

12. So it's good they were fired because they were so badly needed?

I'm not understanding your idea of "sense".

[Averagegrunt]

14. Yes

When you don't show up to work you get fired. When those workers made the choice of standing up for their beleifs in the form of not coming to work they knew the exact thing at stack, their jobs. I'm glad they stood up but I'm not mad at the employer for doing what they had to do economically.

[panader0]

16. You are missing the point (besides perhaps being lost).

The owner states he needed them very badly. So he fires them for missing
one day for a very good reason. Obviously, he didn't need them since now he
has 18 less workers. That makes zero sense, as does your defense of this
bigoted asshole.

[Averagegrunt]

19. Please

Read the post under this one. Also are they bigoted? I don't know never met those people. We can't label anyone if we don't know them.

[JCanete]

25. When you don't show up for work you don't always get fired. How many people took a holiday

to protest who didn't get fired throughout the nation? The employer didn't win by firing them, unless the point was to chill any notion that people should organize and fight for their rights, and even then, I would suggest this decision only catalyzes such a movement.

It's not like the company was likely to see another strike any time soon, and now they need 12 new employees.

[Averagegrunt]

28. Point

That's kind of my point. No company can sustain firing employees.

[ileus]

31. Yup, I don't show up I get written up not fired.

[Averagegrunt]

17. Basically

We had a none union strike. The reason strikes are effective is because it shows the company they need the workers just as bad if not more so than the workers need the company.

It is basic attrition who at lasts who. Can they can continue to fill those empty positions and fire people who protest via strike? I don't know but anyone who does not believe that was the goal of this demonstration is either miss guided or dumb.

That company played directly into the hands of the people who started this wether either side knows it or not.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Should we just bow down to Trump, yeoman6987?

Is that the message?

[Kingofalldems]

13. Here's Trump, yeoman6987:

:small

[TrekLuver]

15. I'll be calling them on Monday Phone number [phone]. I want them to verify if this is

true. I have a lot of friends and family (wink wink) in the Nashville area and they aren't going to like this one bit. My cousin also works for the local paper there so I'm going to make sure they know about this.

[spanone]

18. bullshit statement....

The reason these employees missed work—to engage in peaceful demonstrations—had nothing to do with BCI’s decision to terminate them.

[Averagegrunt]

20. Semantics

They were terminated because they didn't come to work. If they were going to be terminated for their political beleifs they would have found a reason long ago to fire them.

[spanone]

27. nope. terminated for their political beliefs....no semantics.

[Averagegrunt]

29. Good

All the better. If more of the employees share the views of those fired they may walk out leaving that company even worse off or not show up the next day as well forcing the hand?

[spanone]

30. welcome to D.U.!

[Averagegrunt]

32. Thank you!

[billh58]

22. The defense of these

right-wing, right-to-work asswipe employers in this thread is, as Hillary said, deplorable.

[Blue_true]

24. I checked their company website. Here are some of their customers.

Others are listed on the site.

Sheraton Hotel, Opryland Hotel, Averite Express, Rich Products, Suntrust Bank, Pinnacle Financial Partners, Vanderbilt University.

[grantcart]

36. here is the list

http://bradleycoatingsinc.com/gallery_greer.html

I wonder how the Catholic Church feels that they worked on

[Auntie Bush]

26. Good. Well deserved!

[otohara]

37. White Privilege

is a wonderful thing isn't it?

We don't have to worry about our families being deported and torn apart.

[billh58]

38. Plus 100! n/t

[Vinca]

33. Trump's winery needs 28 workers. I suppose these people might have gone there if

THE TRUMPS HADN'T APPLIED FOR FOREIGN WORKER VISAS.

[Kimchijeon]

34. Retail and restaurants firing workers who didn't work a Friday

What a shocker!

Calling in or no-show on a busy retail day/weekend = you're fired.
Granted, some employers are more assholish than others and I get it, they are firing specifically due to employee activism.

Nonetheless every day employers fire countless retail/food service slaves for calling in sick/absent for any old dang reason.
In any case, it does piss me off and no, it shouldn't be allowed.

This example does show the embarrassing lack of workers rights in this country.