I spent quite a bit of time in Stuttgart when I worked on Mercedes advertising. Management complained that they couldn't get Germans to take factory jobs. Most were held by Turks. The vast majority were legal immigrants, But reportedly quite a few get by with phony documentation. Paul On Aug 29, 2006, at 4:59 AM, Carlos Royo wrote:
> Paul Stenquist wrote: >> Although they're made by middle eastern immigrant workers, many of >> them illegals. Same as Mercedes, BMW and Porsche. But the costs of >> doing business in Europe are still very high, even with a non- >> European workforce. > > Paul, I think that none of the big companies you quote would employ > illegal immigrant workers. Those big firms are controlled very tightly > both by the government and the unions. > > Carlos > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net