After the results are in from Stillmore, GA, will the anti-illegals modify their stance?
Since the local labor pool was unwilling, or unable to do the job (remember with higher pay) , what option does the company have, but to hire illegals.
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I read the actual article and the pay had been something like $19 in the 90's, was something like $9 dollars at the time of the raids, and they raised wages a whole dollar, expecting to get an exemplary legal work force (not.) I suspect they set it up to fail. I also read that the problem was that they didn't want to have workers who believed in labor laws. If you read the same article I did there was a report of a black woman who struck her head on some equipment and went to get an ice pack who was chewed out by her supervisor; when she argued back she was fired.
That they don't want to pay the price of American labor isn't something new. It is just unacceptable. Particularly when their workforce 'gets by' through aid to their family, particularly to their children. One way or another we have to subsidize below poverty level wages, while at the same time illegal immigration is ruining education and services for our own people.
However, I saw that Bush just approved asylum for the Hmong cases pending, so until they realize quite what legal means, there may be a year or so of exploitation to be had from them. So long as they are legally here, they should be getting jobs before the illegals do, so I don't see that in itself as a problem. That is one of the reasons we HAVE legal immigrants. To a point. Then our quotas and limits come into play in order to protect our schools and services, AND wages.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07017/754...
"With the arrival of so many immigrants willing to toil for rock-bottom wages on brutal round-the-clock shifts, the number of black workers at Crider declined steadily to 14 percent in early 2006 from as high as 70 percent a decade ago, the company says. Wages stagnated at about $6 an hour, just above the U.S. minimum wage of $5.15 an hour, current and former workers say. Crider says it also paid incentives and bonuses not accounted for in hourly wages. "
did you bother to consider the working conditions, safety? I was in manufacturing for 37 years & I know companies do not like to spend the ,money for a safe work place..... another question were these companies pre-ordained to make working conditions so bad that Americans would not work in them to prove a point? The Wall Street Journal is known to be biased for big business so take what they print lightly!
Not too long ago, Toyota sent a plant to Canada even though they were offered many tax breaks in the south because they felt that Americans simply don't have the ingenuity or work ethic to do the job.
People say that if the money is right, then they would do the job, but trust me when I say that money is not the best motivator. The idea is that if the money is higher, then it willl attract better employees. They never think that better employees are already making more money. Money will never make a good employee out of a bad one.
DAR is right, people working at those plants used to make more money, but that was before the system was simplified to a single motion. I am sure butchers used to make a lot of money, but I have not encountered one in recent memory. Their job has been simplified.
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