May 18, 2013
LABOR IS BENEATH US:
Yep, Immigrants Are Doing the Work We Won't (Kevin Drum| Wed May. 15, 2013, Mother Jones)
[T]he North Carolina Growers Association] is required to heavily advertise for native workers before their applications for H-2A guest worker visas are approved, but these efforts seldom pay off. Even when unemployment was at its height in 2011, they received a grand total of only 268 referrals. They hired 90 percent of the applicants, but only 163 showed up for work on their first day--and that was the best response in NCGA's history. [...]Within two months, 80 percent of the native workers had quit. By the end of the growing season, only seven were left.
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 18, 2013 6:46 AM
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