Timothy Birdnow

The Trump Administration is suing Albertsons Companies, Inc, a national grocery retailer, for harassment because the San Diego division requires its employees to speak English around customers.

From the article:

 
"In or around 2012, Albertsons developed an unwritten "English-only policy,” which Albertsons "implemented as essentially a no Spanish policy,” the lawsuit alleges. "In a training video, managers and employees were instructed that employees should not speak Spanish as long as there was a non-Spanish speaking person present.”

An upper-level manager at an Albertsons store on Lake Murray Boulevard in San Diego allegedly communicated to Hispanic employees, including Guadalupe Zamorano and Hermelinda Stevenson, that "they could not speak Spanish anywhere on the premises regardless of whether they were on break,” according to the lawsuit. They were also forbidden to speak Spanish to Spanish-speaking customers, the lawsuit says."

So the EEOC, a branch of the Trump Administration, says an employer may not make his employees speak the language of the country while at work. Amazing.

There's more:

"The manager and others allegedly harassed Hispanic employees about speaking Spanish, threatened them with discipline and publicly reprimanded them for allegedly speaking the language because managers didn’t like it, the lawsuit alleged. Non-Hispanic employees were not similarly harassed or subjected to the no Spanish policy, the lawsuit said."

End excerpt.

So the manager tried to enforce company policy and that is termed "harassment" by the government. And what examples of non Hispanics speaking Spanish are there here?  

This is wrong on so many levels. First, these people came here to be Americans and yet they demand to be allowed to practice the culture of their native lands - something that America traditionally didn't tolerate and that few other countries do. If they want to live and work here they should learn and speak English or get out. Second, an employer has the right to make his employees speak the dominant language and if they don't like it they can get another job - or get out. Either way, this is a demand they have no right to make. And our government has absolutely no right to impose this.

Americans are becoming second class citizens in their own country.

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