Posted on 09/18/2025 11:07:40 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
That’s a good one!
It sure was. 🤣
Bkmk
“Hire Americans at a decent wage.”
Hey central-va, how ya been? Bad part of the entry I gave you was that those were the wages on the average according to zip recruiter for fruit or veg pickers. I’ve still got some land near Woodlake and the oranges on it are a little hard to get picked because of cost. Anymore, unless you’re co-op or in certain products like growing alfalfa or sugar beets for your cattle, it almost doesn’t pay.
wy69
For now. I wonder if Musk's Optimus robots come in green?
According to a couple of sites to include the below, the pickers on the average are not making poverty level wages.
https://www.coveredca.com/pdfs/FPL-chart.pdf
Union contracts have historically provided higher wages, health benefits through the UFW’s Robert F. Kennedy Medical Plan, and the creation of the first pension plan for retired farm workers, the Juan de la Cruz Pension Plan. I lived in the area on a ranch with plums, grapes, walnuts, and today oranges and grapes, and the original problems in the 1950’s when the availability of unions didn’t exist, were archaic. I can remember entire families laying grape trays for pennies and lugs of other fruits just to get by. So it may have gone from one side to the other, but the original status was just as bad as todays, just in the opposite direction. Today the picker can earn a legit wage and the grower pays it. It just makes the produce more expensive at the market to cover costs and all the middle men in the chain.
wy69
Maybe working on it wouldn’t hurt.
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