This headline is a LIE. The article clearly says these will be "documented workers" NOT Illegals.
I guess some just see Mexicans and their minds go numb.
Hard to believe the company cannot find workers at that rate though.
Hard to believe the company cannot find workers at that rate though.
Especially when US citizens are lining up for $9/hr. jobs around here. Could it be something "else", like no place for these workers to stay? Or perhaps unsafe working conditions? Usually there's "the rest of the story" to these whines about "jobs Americans won't do".
Hard to believe the company cannot find workers at that rate though. . .
As much as some parts of the country are going to find this hard to believe, we do have a tremendous labor shortage down here in South Florida. Our county's unemployment rate is 3% and for the life of me I can't see who the 3% is.
We took THREE MONTHS just to hire a receptionist. Our city library is now over a year past due on its construction deadline because we can't get either supplies or labor to complete the building.
I feel bad about the parts of the country that are having difficulties like the Midwest and some parts of the Northeast, but this is more of a problem down here that many of you seem to be willing to acknowledge. I don't want open borders and would certainly want many more border guards, but we also need some rational way to increase our labor pool here.
With unemployment around 4.9%, we are essentially at full employment. So maybe it is true that there aren't enough people to do the work that have the needed skills. You can raise the wage as high as you want, but if the people aren't there, all you will do is get someone already working to switch jobs and leave a job opening somewhere else. The net number of available jobs doesn't go down. And then there will be strong upward pressure on wages which will also lead to inflation.