As an aside, I’ve seen this happen elsewhere as well. Classic play for wage theft. When I was working as a bartender in London to make ends meet, I had a coworker from Mexico on an expired visa. Great guy and the most hardworking. Well won’t you guess it, guy got picked up by immigration authority on payday.
So the manager/owner also got arrested or fined for employing illegal immigrants right?
Ha! Ha ha! As an extra aside, I got fired from that job for “talking back” to that boss.
Some people take respect to mean treating other people as equals. Other people treat respect as an excuse to exploit people, like they should be treated as superiors.
I believe the quote went something like, “If you don’t treat me with respect, then you don’t deserve respect,” meaning, “If you don’t treat me as an authority, I won’t treat you as human.”
As always, the more a person wants power, the less that person deserves it.
So everyone quit? Right? Document and undocumented?
Hard to strike/quit in protest when you live paycheck to paycheck and unions have been demolished over the span of the past 60-ish years.
Hard to turn up to work when you might be sent away by doing so. I wouldn’t leave until my next job was lined up or there was a union. It doesn’t need to be a self damaging act to be a retaliatory act.
You also might be sent away by not showing up for work if the boss feels like sending ICE to your home.
Can we just call this what it is? Terrorism.
The more I’ve lived to see the way things go, the more I’ve come around to the idea that maybe the commies were on to something. Maybe struggle sessions were the least some people deserve.
It seems many newcommers are not aware of this blatant fact. It outstands me when they think being bourgeoisie friendly is tolerated in this network.
Lock your boss in the freezer and find another job.
I believe this opens him up to a civil suit, even if the government won’t pursue.