This is still America, isn't it!?
Not as far as Lefty Spanish Speaking Groups are concerned. They want the Federales to Investigate.
In a real world, the Feds should investigate the Spanish Language Advocates for demanding that Spanish be spoken.
Again, does Spanish imply that its speakers are too retarded to learn English as other, non-English speaking, immigrants to the US do? m/r
Custard stand's language practice prompts call for federal probe
You might not want to order helado de menta at Leon's Frozen Custard - that was the flavor of the day on Thursday - because the owner of the famous stand on Milwaukee's south side urges his employees to speak only English.
After news surfaced this week that the owner of Leon's told his employees not to converse with customers ordering in Spanish, a Latino civil rights organization called for a federal investigation and a Milwaukee business catering to families decided to hand out free ice cream to anyone who asks for it in a language other than English.
Leon's owner Ron Schneider said his employees and customers are not barred from speaking Spanish, but that for about a year he's been telling staff to communicate in English as much as possible.
"I'm trying to avoid (customers) getting used to Spanish and then one day finding no one here
who can speak it," Schneider said in a telephone interview Wednesday night, adding that only a few of the custard stand's roughly two dozen employees speak Spanish.
That prompted the League of United Latin American Citizens to call for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate the "policy" at the restaurant, contending that it violates federal labor law. ...
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