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November 05, 2003
More Mixed Messages
So now we know: the Evil Wal-Mart has been using Illegals to clean their floors.
Some excerpts:
- [Pavel] said he received $380 in cash for his 56-hour workweeks. That came to $6.79 an hour, and he did not receive time-and-a-half for overtime...
"When I talk on the phone to friends in Mexico, they ask me how the pay is, and I say, `We're getting $350 a week,' " said Mr. Zavala, a native of Mexico City who was rounded up in the Oct. 23 raid. "They say, `Wow, in Mexico we're earning 300 pesos a week.' That's just $30 a week. So compared with Mexico, it's good money."
Wal-Mart paid the contractor $10 an hour per worker, Mr. Kostek said, the contractor paid subcontractors $9 an hour per worker and subcontractors paid their employees $8 an hour — although many workers said they received less than $7. Mr. Kostek said he had to pay for equipment, chemicals and liability insurance.
Robert, a Czech who runs a Web site to attract Eastern Europeans to janitorial work, said using foreign cleaners was good for Wal-Mart and for American consumers.
"No American wants to do this job," he said. "If they hired Americans, it would take 10 of them to do the work done by five Czechs. This helps Wal-Mart keep its prices low."
Oh, the horror. Oh, the humanity. When it will it all end?
Hmmm. Maybe when States like California stop legitimizing illegals by, say, issuing them Drivers Licenses?
Posted by crandal at November 5, 2003 09:04 AM