Article on protest misses points

I read an article in the Aug. 28 Daily Herald about former workers protesting at a West Chicago business and would like to bring up a couple of issues.

First, it appears the employees are requesting severance pay for termination. In the state of Illinois, severance pay is not a right, but your article never mentions that the company policy is to pay severance.

Second, if it is unclear whether the workers' immigration status is unclear, why bring it up? It is just inflammatory and immaterial. If they don't have green cards, they cannot have jobs, at least that's the law as it is written.

Lastly, the article is not cohesive and jumps around to different points which are being made, rather than keeping the points together and flowing from one point to the next. I find that this story is poorly written and has little, if any, facts. Something not worthy of a front page of a quality newspaper.

In addition, I find the headline "Latinos march over firings" very inflammatory. Their heritage has nothing to do with the story or their predicament. Illinois is a right-to-work state and employees can be terminated without cause or notice. Larger employers are even required to file with the Illinois Department of Employment Security when there is a significant layoff.

Ray Godbout

Sugar Grove