Tree planters hold protest In Eugene
Weaver joins rally in criticizing government policy
By KIRK KNIGHTON
Ol the Emerald
Oregon tree planters who
claim they’re losing jobs to il
legal aliens rallied at the Eugene
Federal Building on Friday.
sociation, was aimed at both the
federal government — par
ticularly the U. S. Forest Service
and the Bureau of Land Man
agement — and the contractors
who employ illegal aliens.
The protesters, bearing pick
— them.
The problem hurts both
American workers and the
aliens, the protesters said.
The NWFWA claims Oregon
ians will lose hundreds of jobs
and millions of dollars because
"The Mexicans are getting screwed royally, ” one
protestor said. "We have all the sympathy in the
world for them. ’’
Almost 200 tree planters pro
tested government policies that
allow illegal aliens to work in
Oregon’s forests. The protest,
organized by members of the
Northwest Forest Workers As
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Jobs for Americans," were
quick to say their gripes weren’t
aimed at the alien workers
themselves, but at the contrac
tors employing — and exploiting
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the government fails to ade
quately restrict the exploitation
of reforestation workers.
Local tree planters said this
has forced them into an
adversary role against the illegal
aliens, a position most of them
find awkward.
“The Mexicans are getting
screwed royally,” one protestor
said. "We have all the sympathy
in the world for them.
"But we have to look out for
our jobs — our livelihoods —
before anything else. Those
Mexicans have the jobs that we
should have.”
By law, the forest service and
the BLM must award reforesta
tion contracts to the lowest bid
ders. Contractors who employ
illegal aliens can underbid those
employing local workers
because aliens are usually paid
less than minimum wage.
And so a majority of the con
tracts — 57 percent this year —
are awarded to contractors who
employ illegal aliens, the tree
planters claimed. But the
government is indifferent to the
problem, they added.
"Their only concern is with
awarding the lowest-priced
contract. After that they could
Photo by Erich Boekelheide
200 tree planters gathered Friday to protest U S. policies allowing
illegal aliens to work
care less what happens,” one
protestor said.
The forest service and the
BLM have inserted warnings in
to their contracts that warn of
the consequences of employing
illegal aliens, but the tree
planters said these warnings
‘have no teeth to them.”
The Immigration and Natur
alization Service is all but
powerless to enforce its own
laws in this case, they claimed.
"We don't want the INS to
harass any worker, Mexican or
American. We want them to get
on the backs of the contractors,
who are making a fortune from
human slavery.”
NWFWA endorses more ac
tive enforcement of the Service
Contract Wage Act require
ments, especially against
contractors who exploit
undocumented workers.
Rep. Jim Weaver, D-Ore.,
made a brief appearance at the
protest and promised to work
for solutions to the problem.
"I won’t quit my job until you
all have your jobs back,”
Weaver shouted to the cheering
protesters.
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