Posted on 09/02/2014 12:45:05 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Informal workers are growing part of California’s economy — a shift keenly felt in the construction industry, where 1 in 6 workers is either off the books or misreported, new research has found.
Construction businesses in the state employ roughly 895,000 workers, according to a report by downtown Los Angeles research group Economic Roundtable that was released Sunday. In 2011, 143,900 of those workers labored unofficially.
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I wonder how many "formal" Americans are out of work because these guys took their jobs?
Captain Rainault from Casablanca please...
One in six? Sorry, perhaps five in six.
And how many Americans at one time or another have hired illegal aliens? MOST!
....taking American jobs, taking America's money south of the border to spend.
....taking American jobs, taking America's money south of the border to spend.
Yet another euphemisms for illegal aliens.
Yep, 5 grunts and one that might be able to think after the pot wears off.
Having worked in construction in SoCal I call bolshevik on the numbers!
When California build it’s first Adobe Brick Skyscraper ?
If California is so sunny, how come so many people are in the shadows? /s
I just had that discussion with a handicapped retired gentleman I know, he told me that he paid a julio $40 for less than two hours work and I asked if he had any idea how much in taxes he didn't pay and how much he overpaid into the mexican economy.
‘Informal immigrant’ ping!
“If California is so sunny, how come so many people are in the shadows? /s”
They are sitting underneath a cabana outside of Home Depot.
I am always surprised as to how the average person misunderstands the divisions in the overall “construction industry.”
What is being talked about here is the residential, minor repair and perhaps some light commercial construction. Major construction projects are heavily regulated and while an occasional subcontractor for a specialty trade does show up once in a while with illegals, most of that problem disappeared a decade ago.
Many states, like Arizona, have a mandatory e-verify for all licensed companies doing construction.
I am involved in construction projects that have a workforce topping out between 40 to 400. Rarely do we have a problem with illegals. Are there occasional jobs in the major commercial field where it still happens, sure there are but they are a problematic rare exception. Are there plenty of immigrants doing the toughest jobs in construction? Yes, but they are overwhelmingly legally registered or first generation immigrants. The dirty and tough jobs have always been done by immigrants in this industry.
Tunnel diggers in the 19th century were Germans and Italians, the term for hammer when I was a kid was ‘Swedish screwdriver’, the deep pier hole laborers I worked alongside of in the 60s were Hispanic and eastern European.
Now, all that being said, a decade ago, it was a different story as the residential crews doing big drywall and framing jobs moved from the residential, to apartments, to multi-family to light commercial and then into bigger commercial work. By 2005 this was beginning to have repercussions and was already being stomped on by various agencies. In 2004 there was no way to e-verify for the average employer and the largest number of federal civil rights claims were against employers turning down employees based upon ethnicity or country of origin.
The only way to survive is by being a liar.
I'm happy to hear that they now are getting some much needed shade and time in the shadows.
Yes, but the soiree that is America is formal...
The Illegals are so far in tha shadows that we will start having to give them Vitamin D supplements otherwise they will develop rickets....
/sarc
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