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Migrant Mexican farm workers vote to quit union

• CBC
Migrant Mexican farm workers in Manitoba – the first in Canada to join a union – have now voted to decertify. The farm employees have decided they would rather not be part of the United Food and Commercial Workers union because they can make more money working longer hours, without mandatory overtime pay, which they say caused employers to cut back on their hours. Heladio Martinez-Perez is a foreman at a farm west of Winnipeg. He said under the collective agreement the workers negotiated two years ago, they could not work more than 70 hours weekly. "Today, we're gonna start at 6 o'clock and maybe finish at 8. That is a big difference, the union and not the union. We don't need overtime or $1 extra per hour when we can make more hours. That is a good thing for everybody."

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Comment by TL Winslow
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Why not count the entire Mexican people into the U.S. Census, and be proud of it? It's time the U.S. addressed the biggest remaining logjam of white supremacy today, namely, the stubborn continuation of the 1848 Apartheid when the white supremacist U.S. took half of Mexico's territory for its whites-only homeland, leaving sawed-off Mexico incapable of having a decent future. Now is the time for Congress to invite the Mexican people to join the U.S. as equal citizens sans racism, after dissolving their ever-corrupt fatcat-controlled govt., becoming the "51st state" (10+states), giving the U.S. 760K sq. mi. of new territory plus 5.8K sq. mi. of yummy new coastline. The only losers will be white supremacy and the cruddy Mexican govt., known for corruption, favoritism to Spanish over Indios, and human rights abuses. Click http://go.to/megamerge to read my well thought-out proposal showing how the Obama admin. can do it in only 5 years. 

Comment by Lucky Red
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 Careful what you wish for...you may get it!



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