Posted on 08/26/2023 4:21:58 PM PDT by davikkm
The US Chamber of Commerce, one of the most pro-immigration and anti-White organizations in the country, has just published this article (www.uschamber.com/immigration/immigration-reform-could-help-small-business-worker-shortage) complaining about American workers and begging for significantly higher levels of immigration.
In the piece, which focuses on ‘small business, a gentleman who owns a company which ships high-performance hay complains:
“It’s a hard job. You’re unloading 100-pound bales of hay in Arizona in the summer in a metal barn. It might be 120 degrees. It’s just tough to find people willing to do that … For the most part, Americans don’t apply for these sorts of jobs.”
What goes unsaid by the Chamber of Commerce in this piece, which slanders Whites as lazy and unwilling workers (an old trope by this point), is that agricultural workers in the United States have a median wage of just 29,680 dollars.
(www.bls.gov/ooh/farming-fishing-and-forestry/agricultural-workers.htm)
This wage is 57% lower than the average median income for a White household.
(www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/acs/acsbr19-07.pdf)
Agricultural workers are not entitled to overtime pay in most states.
(nationalaglawcenter.org/state-compilations/agpay/overtime/).
There is also no Federally protected right for farm workers to organize (nationalaglawcenter.org/collective-bargaining-rights-for-farmworkers/), as they were deliberately excluded from the National Labor Relations Act.
Whites are not lazy.
Whites make up the majority of steel and sheet metal workers (datausa.io/profile/soc/structural-iron-steel-workers), miners, electricians, cement masons, mechanics and work in many other demanding fields.
What Whites are unwilling to do is work in industries which lack the labor, wage, and social protections which their ancestors fought so hard for in the past.
In n out burger in Tucson is advertising 18 to 21$ an hour starting pay. That’s for pitching quarter pound beef burgers in AC comfort. What do you think fair pay is for 120f and 100# bails is?
Then: The New York Times
Michelle Goldberg
“We Can Replace Them”
Now:
The New York Times
“’Replacement Theory,’ a Racist, Sexist Doctrine, Spreads in Far-Right Circles
https://twitter.com/WelsonWarlock/status/1665078631297679362
Baling hay is not that hard, been there, done it. It also could be easily automatized.
It is not, because there is ample supply of illegal immigrants who will undercut any price.
Rich men north of Richmond.
Keep talking, ***holes.
Just keep talking.
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Not my experience. Only part of one summer—learned quick I felt underpaid. Had to trot to keep up. NO WALKING. Unloading in the mow I would pass out. Kinda hot up there in an Iowa summer. Buddy would help me to my feet.
He did better than I but would also lose consciousness but not frequently.
We were both healthy teens that played hs basketball and track. No comparison.
Nope. No live and let live.
If not for cheap alien labor, that hay lifting would be done by a machine controlled by a guy sitting in an air-conditioned cab.
“If not for cheap alien labor, that hay lifting would be done by a machine controlled by a guy sitting in an air-conditioned cab.”
Yes it would. But that would not allow the Chamber of Commerce to claim a “labor shortage” and allow masses of non-white immigrants who vote Democrat.
Both sides of the Rich Men North of Richmond gain from the current situation.
The “Chamber of Commerce” corporate “conservatives” are the enemies of every Heritage population in the West.
Most whites are educated. They get jobs that aren’t those kind of jobs
Professional Swamp residents - bump for later....
They care about their money and their gated security guarded communities. WE are expendable.
I grew up in a farm. We kids 8
to 14.. we mowed the hay baled and drove the tractors. Unloaded it into the barns , lifted them bales with a back heave ho there y’ go..later we swung on the hayloft rope and dropped into the hay below..
COc is a POS.
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