Typhoon in Portland

[MsRamsey]

See article:

http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf...17854287320.xml

[mb7o]

Interesting. Not the first time they've been in the paper for visa reasons, though I can't find the article in question. (Maybe in the PI from before 1999?) Possibly something about importing people who couldn't do the work (such as vegetable carving) domestically; I've always wondered why they couldn't just train some locals, even if it took a few years.

[mamster]

Do you think the article gave Steve Kline a fair chance to respond? Because it sounds like unbelievably sleazy behavior, but I'd hate to base that conclusion off a single article.

I once quit a job rather than sign a noncompete agreement. They're totally repugnant.

[Rail Paul]

E-2 and H-1 visa arrangements are little more than legalized indentured servitude. They work well for employers, and avoid the need to invest in training for their local employees. It's impossible to organize them into a union. In Silicon Valley, they're called slave papers.

If the restaurant took the money they invested in airfare and accomodations for these folks and used it for a co-op education for high school students (you work here 15 hours a week, we'll pay you and train you), they'd have a domestic work force and provide jobs for local people who want to work.

[Jim Dixon]

More trouble for Typhoon in this story from the Oregonian.

Jim

[tommy]

I once quit a job rather than sign a noncompete agreement.  They're totally repugnant.

well, i'm think that they are reasonable in *some* situations. but that's another thread, for another board no doubt!