Employers Fire Hundreds of Latino Immigrant Marchers

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Below is a comment from Fred Feldman on the Marxmail list about why the firings happened.
The linked article also includes the original article about the firings.  Linda

The more undocumented immigrants, other immigrants, and supporters are
able to be bold and assertive, and insistent on their rights, the worse
it is for their employers.  While these employers have sound material
reasons to oppose expelling the undocumented en masse, they prefer to
hire them as humble pariahs.  How can they impose minimum -- or even
lower than minimum -- wages, sexual and other harassment, unsafe working
conditions on people who are emerging as powerful and united fighters?
So these firings are about a lot more than missing a day of work, which
immigrant workers, like others, do from time to time.  This is an
attempt to crack down on a movement that threatens to shake up the
social relations the employers represent and need. 

For instance, what becomes of THEIR power to use the INS against restive
workers if  deportation becomes more difficult because of mass
struggles.  These nationalist, Latino pride, working class protests are
part of the working-class struggle against the conditions these workers
face here as well as for their right to be here.
Fred Feldman