Ethnic minorities are treated differently than the majority groups in many ways. One of these ways involves jobs and job security. For many people of color, it is difficult to get a job due to the lowered amount of job opportunities and it is difficult to maintain a job because they are constantly being observed and watched carefully. This article states that these people of color are three times more likely to be trapped by unreliable employment. For instance, a huge portion of the world’s jobs are located in warehouses and factories to perform the behind-the-scenes actions. These jobs are extremely labor inclusive and take a toll on the body, which results in increased risk of injury and disabilities. Also, the ideal stance for these companies is to have quantity of workers over quality of workers. Therefore, the employees are constantly changing and little to no care is going towards the employees, which is risky when trying to make a living. On top of this, workers tend to be required to sign a zero hours contract, which states that the employer is not required to give them any hours and the worker is not required to accept the work offered.
Personally, my stepfather works in a warehouse that distributes seafood to all major grocery stores in Western Washington so he has witnessed this firsthand. He is the assistant general manager and is in charge of hires, among other things. He has stated that, as a manager, he has hired thousands of workers and has fired thousands of workers. Also, the workers he hires mostly speak Spanish and very few of them speak English. However, the President of the company has recently required that they learn basic English in order to be employed at the company. This is upsetting because they are required to put their cultures aside and conform to the “norm”. This is similar to the boarding schools that the Native American children have been forced to enter, as stated in the lecture. These children were ripped from their families and forced to cleanse themselves of their cultures to fit in with the European white norms. The racial inequality is very apparent in both situations, which is very unsettling.
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