I know the thought of blue collar Americans earning above Third World levels is anathema to you, but what is wrong about labor providers working together to create a labor shortage that will drive up wages but in your view right about labor consumers breaking the law to create a labor glut that will drive down wages ? Aren't both using political power to control the market ?
Not at all. I've yet to hear one of these hard working laborors complaining about the wages or working conditions, despite the fact that both suck. Now ask some fat union electrician making $40 an hour and he'll recite you the union talking points about what a terrible work enviroment in which he's forced to work.
How you know what is anathema me is amazing. I ma and have always been a Blue Collar Worker, and have done well by working my tail off and going above and beyond what was expected by me, which caused me great grief the brief time I was in a union.