Comments on: Immigration Issues and Nursing Home Workers

By: drew

drew — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:52:45 +0000

I agree with you especially the part about being exploited. If illegal immigrants are willing to take the low pay and abuse then we all lose out. We CNAs will never get the respect we deserve no matter what country we are from What we do is important and we deserve some respect for it

By: Patti

Patti — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:59:53 +0000

Yep I agree. They are making our jobs A job we don’t want to do. And they take advantage of people who are desperate (illegal immigrants) and exploit them. I’ve seen some of the pay rates for these people: $5.75/hr with no benefits; no OT pay and they are forced to work OT all the time. Because they fear being caught, they do the work and take the abuse. All at our expense: We’re losing our jobs to people who are willing to be treated like crap. Policy people are allowing this to happen…

By: drew

drew — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:13:36 +0000

I find the the remark about needing dependable low wage workers insulting I feel what I do is important especially to those I care for and i feel my pay check should show it. I feel brining in untrained unskilled workers is dangerous