When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Monday, April 15, 2019
AMERICA ON STRIKE!!! - 31,000 STOP & SHOP WORKERS STRIKE AT OVER 240 STORES IN NEW ENGLAND
MILLIONAIRE PHONY SOCIALISM BERNIE’S LA RAZA
SOCIALISM to keep the “cheap” labor flowing into our jobs
Bernie supports immigration reform that will address the legal status of the 11 million undocumented people (EXCEPT THERE ARE 40 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE ALREADY) in our country, protect American jobs by way of visa reform, secure the border, and protect undocumented workers from labor exploitation.
The website states that Sanders supports a pathway to citizenship for all people who are in the United States illegally, the Dream Act, “Visa reform” and border security “without building a fence.”
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Sanders also voted for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in 2013 that would have given amnesty to all of the people in the United States illegally.
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According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s 2017 report, illegal immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those here illegally) cost Americans trillions over the course of their lifetimes, and a study from the National Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are a massive burden on American taxpayers.
CLINTON – OBAMA – TRUMPERNOMICS:
STEAL FROM THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS and HAND IT TO THE SUPER RICH ON A SILVER PLATTER!
"The Wealth-X report shows that the world’s billionaire population has grown by 15 percent, to 2,754 people, since 2016, and that the wealth of these billionaires “surged by 24 percent to a record level of $9.2 trillion,” equivalent to 12 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire planet."
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com
WAR ON THE AMERICA WORKER: FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, OBAMA, and the CLINTON CRIME DUAL
“Senator Dianne Feinstein warned, at the time, they had to solve this crisis now—of immigrants coming in illegally and getting these jobs.”
No one should take Trump’s performances on border security, jobs for legals or his pretend wall seriously. No more seriously than the rest of his twitter drivel.
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ardently liberal, pro-labor and anti-corporate cash, the field of Democrats running for president may look like a union activist’s dream. But some key labor leaders are starting to worry about the topics dominating the 2020 conversation.
The candidates are spending too much time talking about esoteric issues like the Senate filibuster and the composition of the Supreme Court and not enough time speaking the language of workers, several union officials said. Those ideas may excite progressive activists, they said, but they risk alienating working-class voters.
“They’ve got to pay attention to kitchen-table economics,” said Ted Pappageorge, president of the Las Vegas Culinary Union that represents 60,000 hotel and casino workers. “We don’t quite see that.”
Terry McGowan, president of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139, in Wisconsin, said many of the issues driving the 2020 primary so far are distractions.
“The people that are into politics, the people who like sideshows, they’re into that,” he said, citing the debates over reparations for slavery and immigration as examples. “The masses just want to feed their families.”
The unease may be an early warning sign for Democrats, who watched as many white, working-class voters, including many union members in key Rust Belt states, chose Trump three years ago. Democrats are hoping to win back some of those voters next year, a challenge that is made harder, some argue, by labor’s struggle to build its membership and influence its rank and file. Democrats’ early messages may not help, some said.
“You see where some of the party’s being driven. It’s no secret,” said Rusty McAllister, executive secretary of the Nevada AFL-CIO.
McAllister pointed to “Medicare for all” — the health care proposal of choice for several candidates — as an example of Democrats’ not seizing on labor’s top priorities. Many unions already organized and fought for private health insurance for their members. “That’s not something that I think that labor is as much focused on as some of the progressives are.”
Such concerns — which stretched from the progressive-minded organizing halls of Nevada to the Rust Belt precincts — were typically focuse on the conversation, not the candidates. The early 2020 primary has included detours into debates over the Senate filibuster, the composition of the Supreme Court and breaking up technology companies.
Ken Broadbent, business manager of the Pittsburgh-based Steamfitters Local 449, worried that Democrats are too focused on environmental plans like the Green New Deal, a blueprint for shifting the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels, and will neglect the importance of swing-state Pennsylvania’s rich natural gas deposits in creating jobs.
“Jobs is where we’ve got to keep things focused,” Broadbent said.
To be sure, many unionists are excited about the presidential field. Contenders include liberal stalwarts like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose campaign became the first in U.S. history with a unionized work force, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who joined striking Stop & Shop workers on a picket line in New Hampshire on Friday. California Sen. Kamala Harris hired a top Service Employees International Union executive for her campaign and made her first proposal one to raise teacher’s pay.
Former Vice President Joe Biden made clear that he plans to appeal to union workers, if he gets in the race. “You are coming back,” he told the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers last week. “We need you back.”
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said the competition in the crowded field has amplified workers voices and issues.
She noted that prominent presidential candidates quickly supported Los Angeles public school teachers when they struck in January. Warren, Sanders, Harris and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker have all proposed various taxes on higher-earning families, a departure from most past Democratic hopefuls who have treaded carefully on the issue.
“It feels different than at other times,” Weingarten said. “There is far more attention and focus on working people’s economic needs.”
Major endorsements are likely several months away, especially because the labor movement is treading carefully after complaints that its leadership was too quick to back Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary over Sanders.
For labor, much is at stake. Despite Republican gains, particularly with trade union members, labor remains an essential part of the Democrats’ coalition. Unions spent $169 million in 2018 on federal elections, largely on Democrats’ behalf, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Democrats won union workers by a strong 59%-39% margin in 2018, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate.
But other big donors and — small, online ones, too — increasingly compete with labor’s organizing muscle as key to Democratic victories. Activists on a broad array of issues, from gay rights to criminal justice, compete with unions for candidates’ attention. And the labor movement itself is split on its priorities, with some pushing for a focus on trade while other who represent more diverse workforces want to zoom in on immigration.
All this comes as Republicans have pushed several state laws weakening organized labor. And, last year, the Supreme Court ruled that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to the unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a blow to public service union’s pocketbooks.
As candidates court unions for endorsements, labor leaders say they are listening for a comeback plan.
Any proposal aimed at workers “must include ensuring the opportunity to join a union, no matter where you work, since that’s the best way to raise wages, improve working conditions, create family-sustaining jobs and begin to fix our rigged economy and democracy,” said SEIU president Mary Kay Henry.
At a National Association of Building Trades Unions in Washington on Wednesday, several Democratic contenders talked about outlawing so-called “right to work” laws that prevent unions from automatically deducting dues from members, said the group’s president, Sean McGarvey. But, he added, he heard “very little about the actual structural changes to the National Labor Relations Act, or things they could put in place to give people a real free choice to join a union.”
31,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers strike at over 240 supermarkets in New England
More than 31,000 supermarket workers in three southern New England states remained on strike for a fourth day on Sunday against the Stop & Shop supermarket chain. The strike is the largest in the retail industry since 2003, and the second-largest private-sector walkout since 2016. Workers have not been on strike at the grocery chain in 30 years.
The strike comes on the heels of an upsurge of workers’ struggles both in the US and internationally, including a wave of teachers’ walkouts in the US over the past year, the strike of maquiladora workers in Matamoros, Mexico, and the ongoing nationwide walkout by over 300,000 teachers in Poland.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) was forced to call out the workers on Thursday, more than six weeks after five locals in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island voted overwhelmingly for strike action against proposals by management that attack workers’ wages, health insurance, and pension benefits. The workers’ contract expired February 23.
Stop & Shop strikers at South Bay in Dorchester, Mass.
The UFCW has been meeting with Stop & Shop management for the past several days, with a federal mediator present. Although the union has not reported on the progress of the negotiations, according to “FAQs” posted on the Stop & Shop website, the company is maintaining a hard line in their drive to reduce workers’ wages and benefits.
Stop & Shop is owned by billion-dollar Dutch-owned retailer Royal Ahold Delhaize NV, which also owns Food Lion, Hannaford and other grocery chains. Ahold is seeking to drive down the wages and conditions of Stop & Shop workers—which include cashiers, department heads, stock personnel, deli clerks, butchers and bakers—to those of their rivals at nonunion grocers Market Basket, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Walmart.
Amazon is the latest entry into the competitive grocery market with its purchase of Whole Foods. After the acquisition, workers have reported that following owner Jeff Bezos’ raising starting wages at Whole Foods to $15 an hour, both part-time and full-time employees have seen their hours slashed, rendering the wage hike basically worthless.
Stop & Shop stores reopened Friday with replacement workers, but management was forced to close some locations, as the strikebreakers—including salaried personnel and workers recruited and bussed in—were not able to keep up with stocking the shelves and other tasks. At a location in Dorchester, Massachusetts, strikers reported that a food delivery to the store had not been made in three days. Nearly 1,000 truck drivers and warehouse workers, members of the Teamsters union, are reportedly honoring the picket lines.
Ahold Delhaize generates about 60 percent of its sales in the US and Stop & Shop is its biggest brand. The strike has cut across the Dutch company’s “turnaround” plan to revive the grocery chain after several years of slow performance. Ahold Delhaize shares fell 1.4 percent on news of the strike, erasing this year’s gains. Last year, the conglomerate reported profits of more than $2 billion to its shareholders.
The retailer has pledged to invest up to $150 million annually in the 413-unit chain—which also includes stores in New York and New Jersey, where the UFCW has not called out thousands of workers to strike—to make the stores more attractive and keep shoppers from taking their business to online grocers and budget stores like Germany’s Aldi, which will have nearly 2,000 US stores by year’s end.
Stop & Shop is seeking to impose deep cuts to workers’ compensation and benefits in an effort to transform the company into a low-wage sweatshop. For workers, many of whom have worked at the company for decades and live in the neighborhoods where they work, the company’s demands are unacceptable and have brought the conflict to the breaking point.
The company is seeking to drive an even deeper wedge than already exists between full- and part-time workers. While workers laboring full-time for more than three years would continue to make yearly wage increases of about $20 per week over the next three years, part-time workers and full-time workers with less than three years’ seniority would not see raises until they reach the top of the full-time scale, but after this would only see yearly bonuses in the $1,000-1,250 range.
Picket line at Stop & Shop in Dorchester, Mass.
Health care costs would nearly double over the three years of the contract, according to management’s demands. The company’s original proposal called for raising health care deductibles from an average of $200 per year to $1,500—a 650 percent increase. Workers would also only be able to access health care for spouses who do not have a group health plan through their own employer.
The WSWS spoke to pickets outside the Stop & Shop location at South Bay in Dorchester.
Gus Cutone, a produce department head who has worked for Stop & Shop since 1984, said, “They’re trying to undercut all the new people. For most of the current full-time people, we would get our 50 cent raises. But if you’ve been made full-time in the last three-four years, no raise. You’re offered a $1,000 bonus each year for the next three years, which is not right.
“That’s why I’m here, because it’s not right for the new people. What they want to do is take holidays away; they want to cut sick time.”
He said his store had been shut down by the strike and he had been asked to picket at this location. “I don’t know how many replacement workers they have in there, but they’re actually coming in by the vanload,” he said. “I don’t know where they find them, but with this economy, they’re being bussed in.”
Al Peeples has been a Stop & Shop worker for 16 years. “It’s very sad about all the profits they’re making and they’re not giving back to the workers,” he said. “Sometimes the customers come in and they’ve had a really bad day and you come and talk to them and help them out.
“A lot of Stop & Shop people are from the community and it’s their only income. And we’re not asking for much, we just want them to be fair. But they want to take away stuff like holidays and overtime.
“They want to increase healthcare costs by about $40 a month; basically, it would go up to $80 for some people. What I know about the pensions is they want to eventually erase that and get a 401(k). And they want to put a cap on our raises. Me being with Stop & Shop for 16 years, I’m part-time so I’m only making $15 an hour. Someone coming in now, they start at $11 an hour, and when they get up to $18 an hour, they’re going to put a cap on it.
“Some shoppers have not crossed the picket line. But for others, this is their local Stop & Shop and they really don’t have anywhere else to go or can’t get here. But at this store, nothing’s been delivered in three days, so nothing in there is fresh.”
As in other recent workers’ struggles, such as the six-month National Grid 2018-19 lockout of energy workers, Democratic Party politicians have feigned support for workers on the picket lines. Senator Elizabeth Warren visited the Somerville, Massachusetts, Stop & Shop location on Friday, bearing doughnuts and claiming to support workers’ demands. Democratic presidential hopefuls Senators Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Bernie Sanders have also made empty statements of support for the Stop & Shop workers.
The fact is the Democratic Party, no less than Trump and the Republicans, support the relentless attack on workers’ living standards and working conditions in order to boost corporate profit. President Obama encouraged corporations to cut so-called “Cadillac health care plans,” and shift costs onto the backs of workers. And it should be remembered that during the union-busting decade of the 1980s, Democrats, like Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich, sent out the National Guard to break the strike of the Hormel meatpackers, members of UFCW Local P-9, in 1986.
For its part, the union seeks to reach a rotten compromise with Stop & Shop management that they can ram past the opposition of workers and accelerate the transformation of the workplace into a low-wage sweatshop.
Anthony Perrone, the international president of the United Food and Commercial Workers made $341,398 last year, according to the union’s report to the US Labor Department, nearly 20 times what an average cashier or clerk at Stop & Shop brings home every year. The UFCW International brought in $292 million in revenue last year, including $222 million in dues, and only paid out $60,000 in strike benefits.
While securing the financial and business interests of the union apparatus, the UFCW has spent the last four decades isolating and betraying the strikes, including the 1985-86 Hormel strike, and colluding in the lowering of the wages and living standards of grocery workers who once earned relatively higher pay.
There is widespread support for a real struggle against the relentless attack on jobs, social services and living standards and the enormous growth of social inequality. To fight to rally this support, Stop & Shop workers should form rank-and-file strike committees, independent of the unions, to reach out and mobilize the support of the broadest section of the working class for mass demonstrations and joint strike action. A call should immediately be made for Stop & Shop workers in New Jersey and New York to join the strike and to prepare a nationwide strike of retail workers to fight poverty wages and the attack on health care and pension rights. At the same time, US workers should appeal to their brothers and sisters in the Netherlands and throughout Europe to coordinate international action against the giant transnational corporation.
This must be combined with the development of a political counteroffensive of the working class against both corporate-controlled parties and the capitalist profit system they defend. The giant corporations and the great advances in technology, which are now used to destroy jobs and increase the exploitation of workers, must be put under the collective ownership of the working class as part of the socialist reorganization of the economy.
TRUMP’S CRAP ON BORDERS AND HIS PRETEND WALL IS ONLY ONE MORE TRUMP HOAX!
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Only a complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
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“Trump Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
The latest ad from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump to reject the mass illegal and legal immigration policies supported by Wall Street, corporate executives, and most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch brothers.
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Efforts by the big business lobby, Chamber of Commerce, Koch brothers, and George W. Bush Center include increasing employment-based legal immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that Trump has delivered for America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
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A handful of Republican and Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS
THE ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER BY PHONY POPULIST SWAMP KEEPER TRUMP
Companies say they often pay good wages to their imported H-2B workers, often around $15 per hour. But that price is below the wages sought by Americans for the seasonal work which leaves them jobless in the off-season. The lower wages paid to H-2Bs also allows companies to pay lower wages to their American supervisors. NEIL MUNRO
Bernie: Trump’s Promise to Help American Workers Was ‘Monstrous Lie’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is courting President Donald Trump’s supporters in America’s Rust Belt, where he told a crowd in Wisconsin Friday that Trump’s promise to help working-class Americans was a “monstrous lie.”
“The biggest lie of all was when he said that he would stand with the working class of our country, that he was on their side and that he would take on powerful special interests to protect working families,” Sanders said in a report in the Hill. “What a monstrous lie that was.”
Sanders’appearance in Madison was part of a four-day trip across Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania — all states that Trump won in 2016.
“[Sanders] has hewn closely to the progressive proposals that have defined much of his political career – Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage and a nationwide ban on so-called “right to work” laws – while taking a more cautious line on court packing, immigration and getting rid of the Senate filibuster,” the Hill reported.
Sanders’ team said his “core message – that decades of lopsided trade deals and special interests in Washington have exacted a toll on the country’s working class – has a particular appeal to many of the voters who put Trump in the White House, especially those in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.”
“They realize now that they’ve been hoodwinked and who’s more to trust than someone who’s been talking about this their entire career,” Chuck Rocha, a Sanders senior adviser, said in the Hill report.
“Sanders’s campaign manager Faiz Shakir outlined the strategy in a memo last week, arguing that carrying those three states while losing in other battlegrounds, like Florida and Ohio, would still be enough for Sanders to win the White House,” the Hill reported.
“Democrats could still lose all the traditional battleground states Florida and Ohio, the expanding sunbelt battleground states Texas and Arizona, and the newly competitive southern battleground states of North Carolina and Georgia – and still win the White House in 2020 with Bernie Sanders securing wins in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania,” Shakir wrote in the memo.
The Hill noted that right now Sanders’ most formidable opponent in the crowded Democratic field is former Vice President Joe Biden, who has consistently placed first in Democrat presidential candidate polling.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency arrested 50 illegal aliens who are suspected of drug dealing and trafficking in a raid that spread across the New England area’s sanctuary cities.
ICE agents arrested the illegal aliens in a raid targeted at getting drug traffickers off the streets who had been previously released by sanctuary cities in the region. Federal agents were also able to arrest three illegal aliens who are wanted for murder in Brazil, accordingto the Boston Herald.
An ICE official told the Boston Herald that the raid resulted in the seizure of enough fentanyl to “kill half the state” of Massachusetts.
Officials said many of the illegal aliens arrested in the ICE raid had been convicted on drug violations or had cases pending in the courts, making them eligible for deportation. But, because of a multitude of sanctuary city jurisdictions, where illegal aliens are shielded from deportation, the individuals were never handed over to ICE and were instead released back into the general public.
“ICE Boston stands committed to work with local and state law enforcement and respects the rulings and sovereignty of the Massachusetts Supreme Court,” a Boston ICE official Todd M. Lyons said in a statement to the Boston Herald. “While some within the criminal justice system seem not to grasp the threat when criminal aliens are released back to the street, the men and women of ICE, through efforts like the one we have completed this week, remain committed to apprehending those dangerous criminal aliens who threaten our communities.”
As Breitbart News reported, six MS-13 gang members — four of which are illegal aliens — have been arrested and accused of butchering a 17-year-old boy to death in the region of Lynn, Massachusetts, a suburb outside of Boston.
One of the six suspects, a 19-year-old Salvadorean national named Henri Salvador Gutierrez, had evaded deportation the month before the murder after convincing an immigration judge that he was not violent and was not a part of the MS-13 gang.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
TRUMP’S CRAP ON BORDERS AND HIS PRETEND WALL IS ONLY ONE MORE TRUMP HOAX!
Only a complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
“Trump Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
The latest ad from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump to reject the mass illegal and legal immigration policies supported by Wall Street, corporate executives, and most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch brothers.
Efforts by the big business lobby, Chamber of Commerce, Koch brothers, and George W. Bush Center include increasing employment-based legal immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that Trump has delivered for America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
A handful of Republican and Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Data: Working Class American Men Struggle to Re-Enter Workforce
Working class American men have struggled to increase their labor participation rate to workforce levels before the Great Recession of 2007, new data finds.
Working-age native-born American men between 18 and 65-years-old with no bachelor’s degree have fared far worse than their foreign-born counterparts in terms of economic recovery and re-entering the workforce, data from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals.
Nearly seven percent of working-age native-born American men with working class backgrounds who were in the workforce in 2000 were not in the workforce in 2018. In 2000, about 82 percent of working class American men were in the workforce. By 2018, that labor participation rate has fallen to 75.1 percent — a 6.9 percent drop over a nearly two decade period.
(Center for Immigration Studies)
(Center for Immigration Studies)
Foreign men with no bachelor’s degree, on the other hand, have almost fully recovered since before the economic downturn when it comes to labor participation. Between 2000 and 2018, the labor participation rate for male foreign workers with no bachelor’s degree is just one percent less than what it was in the year 2000.
In 2000, about 87.2 percent of working class foreign men were in the workforce. By 2018, that labor participation rate has nudged down to 86.2 percent.
When 18 to 24-year-old working class men are not factored in, native-born Americans continue to be outpaced by low-skilled foreign men in regards to labor participation.
For instance, while only about 0.5 percent working class foreign men between 25 to 65-years-old have dropped out of the labor force between 2000 and 2018, about 3.7 percent of native-born working class American men of the same age group have fallen out of the workforce when current levels are compared to the year 2000.
CIS Director of Research Steve Camarota has found that the labor participation rate for native-born working class Americans has barely improved over the last six years while working class immigrants have improved their labor participation rate.
Despite consistently low unemployment, there continues to be 47.5 million native-born Americans and immigrants between 18 to 65-years-old who are not in the labor force. This is more than ten million more residents who are not in the labor force when compared to the 36.6 million who were not working in the year 2000. These residents are not counted in unemployment totals.
The U.S. mass illegal and legal immigration policy — whereby about 1.5 million mostly low skilled foreign workers are added to the population every year — has remained in place despite the economic downturn of 2007 and the country’s recovery.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Stop & Shop strikers at South Bay in Dorchester, Mass.
Picket line at Stop & Shop in Dorchester, Mass.
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