the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Feb 17, 2025
The Uline office supply company has been bringing dozens of workers by shuttle from Mexico to work in its warehouses in places like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Uline pays them about $38 per day plus a weekly bonus and food allowance. It’s a “third world” wage. Basically, the company pays them per day what it pays U.S. workers per hour.
Uline instructs the workers to lie and say they are visiting the U.S. on tourist visas or B1 visas, which are for short-term professional training. But then they work up to six months in warehouses, often with freezing temperatures, while managers forbid gloves and thicker coats and hats!
At the same time the owners of Uline, Dick and Liz Uihlein, are major donors to right-wing, anti-immigrant politicians. They donated even more last year than Elon Musk, including giving $130 million to Donald Trump’s campaign. Their political action committee funded a campaign ad screaming about an immigrant “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexican border.
What these bosses want, like other bosses, is to oppress immigrant workers, as part of their exploitation of the entire working class. They drum up panic about “immigrant invasions” to keep their own immigrant workers in fear.