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 doesn’t 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. “It’s 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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Economic Illiterates use the word ‘Shortage’. I won’t say why. Let them figure it out. The educated watch for these hidden keywords. CoC often use illiterate terminology.
CoC hate healthy competition.
You have a good point there. A lot of parents from ‘good families’ want their snowflake to worry about good grades and fashionable extra curricular activities rather than building a resume. It’s all about getting into the ‘right’ schools.
They think that since their ancestors worked without being paid, they should make it even by getting paid without working.
What good is it for us to allow any business cheap labor in exchange for also allowing access to our great society programs to offset their cost with out tax dollars?
Just one person’s kid going from pre-k to 12 costs us $200k. How, where, when, why and how would they ever pay enough tax to cover their expenses of being here unless they come with major viable skills that can keep them at a bare minimum of 125+ over poverty levels?
They just need to keep the American people stupid a little bit longer........that’s what all this “open borders” stuff is about. They all love the cheap labor.
Got a relative that has housekeepers that come to their home. I was there one day when at least 7 arrived at their house at the same time. I’ll let you guess where it appears they originated from. Sympathy for me while H1-Bs have been flooded into my line of work? Not so much.
Talk about an eye-opening experience.
As long as someone else can pay less, get more, enrich themselves on illegal labor, this thing will continue.
The Cheap Labor Express at the Wall Street Journal. Ha ha ha ha ha. No one belives them.
Howzabout we change the immigration laws to halt immigration altogether for a period of, say, ten years -- thereby allowing a period for a.) current immigrants to assimilate, b.) removal of all illegal immigrants and c.) determination of the proper objective for future immigration.
[The Cheap Labor Express at the Wall Street Journal.]
That’s the, “bottom line” (pun absolutely intended) as to why WSJ, National Review Online, Investor’s Business Daily, etc. all pushed Trump-bashing articles all this year.
We have not forgotten.....
Add to the list any I left out (it was just off the top of my head).
These are CoC drones.....
What about convict labor? Why not just work with a prison to contract prisoners for construction projects? While I wouldn’t recommend hiring them for housekeeping, I would certainly recommend them for road work, building, that kind of thing. Get the prisoners out into the workforce and then have the entire illegal population extracted from our country. Even better, make the prisoners build the effing wall!
I never understood WHY the rich are always looking for one way to pinch money. Instead of paying for quality, they just look for illegals or any kind of cost curbing no matter how bad the quality.
My first job while in high school was construction. I didn't work during the school year, but during the summers off from school.
They come in legally, I’m all for Mexican workers, great work ethic. Also cut off welfare and get some factory jobs bc the folks that ain’t working now, employers don’t want them with front house access to public nor any cash. Basically it would have to be no more welfare, take a bath, get a haircut, fix your teeth, stop cursing, cover the tats and loOK like you enjoy work.
Lie.
Ross and Carroll just east of downtown Dallas, all the illegal aliens you want.
Every day, all day.
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Perhaps if we stopped paying Americans a lucrative quantity of various welfare benefits, they would be more accepting to actually earning a living.
I could live with that.
and yet the count of illegals is still at 11 million ?
It lost a million since the end of Clinton’s 2nd term and hasn’t moved since.
[and yet the count of illegals is still at 11 million ?
It lost a million since the end of Clinton’s 2nd term and hasn’t moved since.]
It’s like “Unemployment is at 5%”. And yet you still meet fools on the street who think that is true, too.
After all, they saw it on CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC/Yahoo.
Stop the welfare checks and Earned Income Tax credit.
[convicts ... road work]
Wasn’t that Steve McQueen and George Kennedy? And the guy with the mirrored sunglasses and the rifle?
Movin’ the truck, boss!
“Cool Hand Luke”
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