Posted on 09/20/2016 12:12:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Again, the claim by the article and the industry is LABOR SHORTAGE... which by the evidence is total crap claim.
Arguing about illegals and lack of enforcement forcing the industry to cheat is a separate discussion.... Just like the H1B and IT... there IS NO LABOR SHORTAGE... just industries unwilling to raise wages to attract workers.
Ding...ding...ding...WINNER!
The event that prompted the rewiring was an outlet in an upstairs office that had black soot around it.
The office was located over the garage, and the vibration from the garage door opener caused the wires to loosen and short out.
Just doing jobs that Americans won’t.
View this article online: http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/09/19/426906.htm
2 Mexican Physicians Sentenced in Texas for Fake Accident-Related Insurance Fraud
Prosecutors in South Texas say two doctors from a family medicine clinic in Mexico must serve nearly three-year U.S. prison terms for insurance-related fraud.
Dr. Mayolo Melchor and 61-year-old Dr. Bertha Hernandez-Melchor, of Reynosa, Mexico, were sentenced on Sept. 15 by a federal judge in McAllen.
Both physicians in June pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a nearly $2.6 million insurance claim scam. Each was sentenced to 34 months behind bars and must repay the money.
Investigators say the physicians conspired with policyholders of the American Family Life Insurance Co. to prepare and submit fraudulent claim forms and faked accident reports from 2001 to 2010.
Prosecutors say forms with bogus information were delivered to the family clinic in Mexico, then faxed to AFLAC headquarters in Georgia.
Raise wages to attract workers?
No, cut welfare benefits and get the lazy Americans doing the jobs illegals are happy to have!
Raise wages to attract workers?
No, cut welfare benefits and get the lazy Americans doing the jobs illegals are happy to have!
The advocates of speedwiring will tell you how low the danger is of anything coming loose. You know why that is bull$#*+ now.
A good amateur electrician like yours truly might average 5-10 minutes extra per outlet to wire properly, including "pigtailing" the ground. A professional might do it in closer to the five minutes extra. An absolute newbie might take 15-20 minutes.
Take the 20 minutes, multiply it by the average 30 outlets which the average person has in their home. What does that come to? An extra 10 hours?
A newbie unlicensed electrician (not as good as me) will make about $25 per hour. Is an extra $250 too much to pay for a properly wired home?
What bothers me even more than that is the pro electricians will charge way more than that and still defend the same crappy speed wiring technique, which he will then likely delegate to one of those hardworking illegals from south of the border.
Even worse is that they will leave so little extra wiring (copper wire being expensive, you know, a whole $34 for the last 250' of 14-2 gauge I bought) that you've got to pigtail with wire nuts to get the extra length needed to do a proper wrap around the posts. Even then, some of the boxes used are so tight that you cannot even pack it back in and have to get one of those extended wall plates which stick out.
And the “law is the law”. Human slavery is also against the law. We don’t make economic arguments how slavery would save builders money.
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