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  1. be replaced by illegal immigrants at half the wage and no benefits.  Further, the liberals would support it as they are on the side of illegal immigrants.

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    Mysteriously the comment was deleted.  Maybe it was TOO progressive.

    • I consider myself a liberal and am not so much on the side of illegal aliens.

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      I must not have gotten the memo. Thanks for opening my eyes, that could have put me in a really embarrassing situation!

      • Unlawful entrants to our country have just as much rights as you. Just who do you think you are re being judgemental.
        These people came to America for economic prosperity. If they displace lawful Americans and lawful immigrants it is simply a question of economic equality.

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        George Bush, Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham, Deval Patrick have worked tirelessly for our neighbors to the south. No one in this country has the right to deny these economic pilgrims the right to good jobs and good wages.

    • …to misrepresent the positions of the liberal community, of which you are obviously not a member.  On behalf of said liberal community, I’d like to ask that you give it a rest – it’s tiresome drivel that does nothing to further the discussion.

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      Want to have an impact and make a difference, v3pn?  Engage us in a discussion of the issues, propose something that will improve things – snide comments and outright lies are perfectly useless.

      • That Deval Patrick is opposed to our newly arrived immigrants to the shores of Massachusetts economic opportunity? I could have sworn that DP and fellow progressives in Massachusetts were ardent supporters of jobs, healthcare, and in-state tuition for our “immigrants”.

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        Now you are suggesting otherwise? 

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        Has there been a change in policy since last night?

    • Enterprise is moving its operations to the Alamo rental car facility at the airport where security is much tighter.  So I doubt very much that it or the staffing company, ParkWest, will be hiring any illegal immigrants. 

  2. I recently had an auto accident and Enterprise was the rental provider chosen by my insurance company for my loaner.  In talking with two Enterprise employees (in NC, not MA), they were bitterly complaining about the hours they had to put in without overtime consideration and the miserable pay to begin with.  So, I have to think that Enterprise corporate policy is to use and abuse employees.  Maybe the insurance companies that use only Enterprise should be targeted as well?  Isn’t it amazing that insurance companies are at the center of so much abuse?  Just saying.

    • …”working off the time clock” is hardly limited to Enterprise and is certainly not a recent development.  My spouse, in the mid 1970s, worked for a McDonalds operation in Framingham, and was told to clock out, and keep working.  The practice was illegal, of course, but to whom was he going to complain?  The government?  Don’t be silly.

      • You’re shift is over at 3P. Clock out, return and write your nurses notes, for an hour and a half.

    • Enterprise is the number one car rental company used by insurance companies for loaners.  If anyone has ideas about how to reach decision makers in the insurance business or thoughts about getting insurers to care about this boycott, we would love to hear from you!

      • …demanding the per diem reimbursement from your auto insurance company and renting your replacement vehicle on your own?

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        The issue isn’t so much Enterprise, but the fact that most people are too cheap to rent replacement vehicles on their own, even if they are reimbursed by their insurance companies on a per diem basis.

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        I seriously do not know what gets into more than a few people around here.  They seem to want Cadillac service on a Chevrolet price.

        • The pervasive: “Somethin for nuth’n” culture.

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          The insurance companies can always get hertz replacement vehicles and raise your insurance rates the attendant 10%.

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          Crys, wails, and shrieks.

        • I wasn’t given a choice of rental companies or reimbursement.  Everything was arranged outside of my control.  If, god forbid, I ever get into another accident, I will do my best to do exactly as you suggest and rent from another firm or take the per diem.  I know from experience that there are less expensive alternatives than Enterprise. 

  3. How come no one has suggested these workers seek employment elsewhere?

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    If I worked at a job that included …

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    · Unsafe Working Conditions
    · Job Discrimination
    · Abuse of wage and hours
    · Lack of respect

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    … I would quit.

      • While we might say that Enterprise was unjust in the treatment of its workers we must also remember what Enterprise did was entirely legal, it is not against the law to force employees to work overtime, it is also not against the law not to compensate them for overtime so long as the employment contract stipulated that which it did in this case. It is also not illegal to fire the employees and replace them with scabs, er i mean service contract employees that will work for less.

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        Always remember thats how they keep the cost of their rentals down because they are a business and not a charity, if you want to pay more for a company that treats its workers better thats your perogative and the boycott idea doesnt sound so bad for that purpose.

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        Or you could just use the T like me 🙂

        • …is to fire, outsource, or otherwise penalize workers in retaliation for attempting to form a union.

        • The text below is copied right off the NLRB website:

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          The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for collective-bargaining purposes, or engaging in protected concerted activities, or refraining from any such activity.

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          Examples of Employer Conduct Which Violate the NLRA Are:
          Threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they join or vote for a union or engage in protected concerted activity.
          Threatening to close the plant if employees select a union to represent them.
          Questioning employees about their union sympathies or activities in circumstances that tend to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights under the Act.
          Promising benefits to employees to discourage their union support.
          Transferring, laying off, terminating, assigning employees more difficult work tasks, or otherwise punishing employees because they engaged in union or protected concerted activity.
          Transferring, laying off, terminating, assigning employees more difficult work tasks, or otherwise punishing employees because they filed unfair labor practice charges or participated in an investigation conducted by NLRB.

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          read more at http://www.nlrb.gov/

  4. Its not illegal to fire people if they want to form a union. I am not saying employers that do that are just, moral, or decent for their actions, I am saying that those actions fall entirely within the realm of current law.

    • to take our business elsewhere at the behest of said recently terminated employees.

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