Posted on 11/25/2016 11:33:34 AM PST by dirtboy
n Dallas, the King of Texas Roofing Co. says it has turned down $20 million worth of projects in the past two years because it doesnt have enough workers.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Joe Hargrave is expanding his successful Tacolicious chain of restaurants, but says he is building smaller ones due to a massive shortage of restaurant workers.
And in Florida, Steve Johnson, who harvests oranges for the citrus industry, says, Right now, if I had 80 guys, I could put every one of them to work.
As hiring accelerates and the labor market tightens thanks to a steady U.S. recovery, employers who need low-skilled workers are increasingly struggling to fill vacancies. One big reason: Mexican workers, who form the labor backbone of industries like hospitality, construction and agriculture, are in short supply.
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Many business owners who rely on low-skilled labor say the real trouble is too few Mexicans heading north, not too many. Without Mexican labor our industry is at a standstill, says Nelson Braddy Jr., the owner of King of Texas Roofing Co, which is helping build a sprawling new Toyota North American headquarters in a Dallas suburb. He says he would hire 60 roofers right away if he could find them. Its the worst I have seen in my career, he adds.
Annual inflows of undocumented immigrants from Mexico have slowed to about 100,000 a year since 2009, from about 350,000 a year in the mid-2000s and more than half a million in the late 1990s and early 2000s, estimates the Pew Research Center. Apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol of Mexicans and other foreigners entering illegally declined to 337,117 last year, the least since 1971.
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I just imagine that these “poor businessmen” can go to DC, place ads, and get all the “workers” they want between now and 1/20/17. Maybe they can get some “displaced US Attorney’s” as well.
White kids of privilege wont work now a days
illegal immigration is the new slavery.
There are more than enough able bodied workers on the welfare roles to do the work - if they were willing. The question is: how to motivate them to do the work?
Sounds like the same pro-slavery arguments prior to the civil war.
Sure small businesses want more illegal aliens. We should believe the CoC because it is a truthful, patriotic organization. In a better world the CoC would be tried for treason, convicted and hung.
How about american teenagers put down their video games and work after school. How about schools let Seniors get school credit for working half day or 1 day a week or pay higher wages so americans will do the work.
I blame food stamps
Maybe if he was willing to pay more than illegal-alien wages, more potential roofers would appear.
I am just not buying this.
Perhaps if we had kept up the tradition of making teenagers have jobs during high school and college, ....
As opposed to non white kids?
Hmmmmm. How about as the job market improves as we report millions of illegal’s we start cutting back welfare?
Uhhh. No. He just doesn’t want to pay enough to get unemployed Americans to work. Also. It is vey comfortable to be unemployed in the US.
I’ve always believed that schools should worry less about extra-curricular and more about students building a genuine work history. If students could earn credit by working at a job or running their own business, I am certain that there would be less special snowflakes.
They are too busy with their phones and music.
So glad I didn’t grow up with a phone attached to my body every waking moment.
Not where I live
Nashville metro
Since he likes hiring Mexicans so much, maybe he should open a roofing company in Mexico.
There are more than enough able bodied workers on the welfare roles to do the work - if they were willing. The question is: how to motivate them to do the work?
Yep, you see the rioters in places like Ferguson and Baltimore, and you think, do these people have jobs? They are not disabled, they could be doing some sort of productive job in our economy.
Do we have job training programs for roofers or other building trades? I really don’t know how any of that recruitment works. But seems to me, with some basic training, lots of idle people could be doing productive work and earn some good money. What is the missing link? Lack of a work ethic in ghetto culture? Inability to follow directions? Lack of soft skills such as knowing you need to show up for work on time? Illiteracy?
Try paying a fair wage for the type of work wanted, then go out and recruit them.
I understand that every wetback is a master of every trade imaginable (just ask them), and you might have to do some training or provide some supervision to an American worker, but they are out there.
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