{"id":2154,"date":"2012-10-17T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2012-10-17T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:41:28","slug":"mi-pueblo-in-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Mi Pueblo In Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"

This just sucks all around<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\n Mi Pueblo, a Latino supermarket chain with humble roots, faces the prospect of a mass layoff, a boycott and a federal investigation — all because of questions about its employees\u2019 legal status and right to work in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The Northern California grocery chain imports and produces a full spectrum of foods from Mexico. Its 21 stores, and counting, pop up in urban food deserts that stores like Safeway don\u2019t touch.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/business\/latino-grocery-chain-faces-immigration-audit<\/a><\/p>\n

We love Mi Pueblo. It’s the nearest grocery store to our house, and I wrote about<\/a> how happy we are to have it in our neighborhood. It is absolutely, definitely, POSITIVELY<\/strong> serving a big demographic and a vital need in our area.<\/p>\n

At first blush this story like a straightforward, fuck-our-immigration-policy sucks story, nicely and neatly fitting into an existing liberal thought-box. But because this is the Bay Area we get an extra little piece of insanity that also reflects poorly on left-wing orthodoxy. There’s a union that’s actually calling for a boycott of Mi Pueblo…because they have been forced to follow the law<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\nIt\u2019s ironic for Mi Pueblo to defend itself from charges of betraying employees and siding with the federal government. The company was founded by Juvenal Chavez, a former janitor who came to the U.S. from Mexico without legal documents.<\/p>\n

Now the grocery chain faces a boycott from the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So there you have it. A mid-size local business, serving a HUGE local need, is under threat both from a bullying union and from anti-immigrant federal policy. And all I really know is that this is going to make my<\/em> life so much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This just sucks all around: Mi Pueblo, a Latino supermarket chain with humble roots, faces the prospect of a mass layoff, a boycott and a federal investigation — all because of questions about its employees\u2019 legal status and right to work in the U.S. The Northern California grocery chain imports and produces a full spectrum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}