Honest Business Network Gaining Local Support
March 29th, 2008 by joe
The tragedy of illegal immigration is the effect it has on local employment. In Northern Virginia, this has been manifest most egregiously on blue collar workers, particularly in trades related to construction and home maintenance. Companies that hire lawfully are at a serious competitive disadvantage to those that hire illegal workers.
If you don’t have to pay benefits, decide to skirt state and federal payroll tax requirements and pay wages far below what legal workers will accept, you can underbid in a big way. This corruption has been going on in Eastern Loudoun County for roughly ten years and because of the lack of local and federal law enforcement has resulted in entire trades becoming dominated by illegal workers.
WJLA channel 7 news did a recent story on the Honest Business Network, which shows that illegal immigration is most definitely not a victimless crime. I encourage everyone to watch it.
If you want to find companies that hire legally, please visit the Honest Business Network.
Untitled from Joe Budzinski on Vimeo.
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March 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
nice, i like the shots of you going door to door
March 29th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
It’s how I spend most of my spare time.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:39 am
Joe:
Good work !
The two contractors also did a very good job.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Nice work. Nice shots of pounding the pavement, going door to door and the contractors were right on. Great Job and you got 20 or so businesses to sign the pledge. Awesome. Now we need people to patronize those businesses and tell them it’s because they signed the pledge. Keep up the pressure.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Joe,
How can I get info on this to solicit the local businesses that I use in hopes of getting them on board ?
Seems like a few well placed enquiries might be of use to this program.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
[…] WJLA reporter Andrea McCarren visited Sterling in March to discuss the Honest Business Network (see that story here). […]