Comments for Union bill hardly for farmworkers at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://tracypress.com Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:22:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10416 Clarence Gillmore : I hope you got my answer that type of information I gave you is on record and confidential. Now my wife wants to know, what type of work do you do. You got the part of the story the other part is about local corruption that goes on. Benigno - Tom Benigno Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:07:01 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10302 Dave : What private ballot are you asking about? The right to vote a union issue for the Chavez movement for farm workers? You need to be more specific on your question. What does that have to do with the your site 300 job. Are you recruiting illegals to join the Republican party and the military now? - Tom Benigno Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:04:42 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10300 To Mr.Gillmore: Yes sir, but they were allowed to enter the country under the bracero program. Yes again on another issue, the Triana family allowed some 150 illegals to stay on a ranch I rented from them next to my ranch. Being that they also had other apricot orchards, they used the same contractor. The contractor was responsible for the people they hired. I paid the contractor, not the people he was responsible for. A neighbor saw the workers sleeping on cardboard on the ground and called immigration officials. My wife an I were questioned by the FBI in 1976 about the issue. We explained the situation to the agent. The contractor was the violator of the program. He never had their visa's cleared by immigration. That was in 1976. Some paper work was authorized in those days. Even the PCA, the Production Credit Association certified illegals into the country then to work in the fields. The money borrowed for crop production had provisions of who would be doing the harvesting, down to contractor names and how much per ton was to be paid. I hope that answers your question sir. Tom Benigno - Tom Benigno Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:49:56 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10288 Tom B. do you support the Private Ballot? - Dave Kerst Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:33:34 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10287 Tom B. did you ever hire illegals? to work on your farm? - Clarence Gillmore Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:30:47 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10207 Good point Sir: I am a little taken back by this guy's review of his agenda. He probably never worked in any industry that had anything with farming or the grocery industry. Farm workers don't want union dues, nor do they want to social security, they would rather have the money to send home to their families. The percentage that is taken out of their pay for FICA and SSI means more to them in cash. Which they may never collect? Especially when the contractor deducts 35% for his share of the deal, that they don't even claim. They sometimes end up with 55 % of what they earn. The ability to vote what does that mean,for the workers that come here to work seasonally? Nothing. The Baracero program allowed those wokers to come here under a program ,work and go home to their land and families. Mr. Dooley represents the problems with immigration, that is false hope for these people who come here. To use them as cheap labor for the same Associations he represents. They don't care about the worker? As a past farmer and grocery operator, I resent the fact that this guy was in Congress and now is a Chief executive officer, of an industry that has failed the Union members who wanted to make a career in the grocery industry. By cutting full time help so that they didn't have to pay benefits,and health care. Tom Benigno Owner operator C&T farms Grocery Produce Outlets - T. Benigno Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:50:53 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10190 How much did Dooley get for writing this article...since the workers are not obviousley being represented by his comments but instead he represents the industries who only want to pay minimum wage (or less if they can get away with it) and provide no benefits but have their workers toil in the hot sun with little to show for it. - AE Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:17:19 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10182 Thank you Mr. ilegal there are lot of nice people out there I'm glad to have you on the blog. I don't sleep too well anymore,thank you anyway. Tom - T. Benigno Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:45:55 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10143 mr.benigno; yu nisa men. ilegal no gu tu schol.i nut have good educaton.i lurn tu red good heh.Senor benigno yu no agri wit bod men hu du nut alow us tu vota. yu won gud hombre.rispec yu vedy mucho. hav nisa seesta mi compadre. ilegal. - ilegal Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:47:01 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10127 Mr. Dooley: You are so wrong about your whole analysis of the food industry and producers associations. Benigno >:( - T. Benigno Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:02 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10121 secret vote is a bedrock principle. still the legislative bodies seem to often use voice votes, calls for votes, etc. so ther must be a balance, as usual. perhaps when the ufw board meets the vote should be public, probly already is. when leaders are elected, the vote should be secret. - bob blinker Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:19:25 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/9837/2241/#comment-10098 tu calvin dooley; thes law vedy bed law calvin.ilegal no allow tu vote.thes law prvant usa frum voting. - ilegal Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:25:47 +0100