The farmer eventually spoke and asked the people in the meeting if they would harvest onions for $3 an hour and did they have any idea about the cost that would be passed on to the consumer if the farmers didn't have cheap labor. I pointed out that I had not seen a significant decrease in the price of onions due to the cheap labor. If I was paying $1.00 for onions three years ago, $1.25 two years ago, and $1.50 today, then who is making a profit on cheap labor? It doesn't show in the price passed on to the consumer. If labor is so cheap, then the price of onions should be going down. None of us have seen any of this drastic reduction in cost, It hasn't been passed on to the consumer, even though we are continually fed the line that cheap labor is keeping our cost down.
Good one. The insourcing of labor is not intended to make our lives easier, but to tweak up profits of certain employers.
I don't have the reference handy but the number I remember was that less than 15% of illegals in this country were involved in agriculture...and if memory serves I believe the number was 13%.
people who promote the illegal immigration contribution to the agricultural economy seem to forget how we managed before they arrived.
I myself unloaded produce trucks & boxcars through high school and college. I just don't know how we managed without illegals. LMAO