Romney Painters Facing Inquiry

[Highway61]

Source: Boston Globe

From the article.....

"There should be less of a focus on immigrant bashing and more of a focus on employers who are benefiting from a broken immigration system"

....A Peabody company that painted Mitt Romney's Belmont mansion in recent months is under investigation by state authorities for dodging labor laws and accused of relying on subcontractors that exploited workers, including illegal immigrants.

Romney hired Olympic Painting and Roofing to paint the salmon-colored house in August and the work was completed in October, according to Olympic. The company was the subject of a 2005 front-page article in the Globe saying that the state attorney general's office was investigating allegations that Olympic failed to pay overtime and other obligations through a system that misclassified workers as "subcontractors" instead of regular employees.

In addition, union leaders and a worker interviewed in 2005 complained in the article that the nonunion company and others in the construction industry boosted their workforce with low-paid workers, often undocumented immigrants, hired through independent contractors to avoid paying taxes and other expenses.


Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/07/romney_painters_facing_inquiry/?page=1

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Anything but pay fellow Americans a fair wage that they can live on.

Why not hire American union workers? I mean, you're wealthy beyond belief. Wouldn't you want to share some of that wealth with fellow Americans and pay them a fair wage? Not these clowns, just too greedy and cheap (Scrooge before the ghosts came to visit) and he wants to be president? I don't think so...

[WhiteTara]

1. you don't become wealthy beyond belief

by giving any of it up voluntarily. You have to be very stingy to get wealthy beyond belief.

[msongs]

2. local mormon church: membership almost all white, workers almost all latino nt

[Ian David]

3. Why would brown people join a church that says dark skin is the mark of Cain...

and that if you become a Mormon, and you're really really good... your skin will lighten in color?