"Last year, farm workers earned an average of $10.89 per hour. Adjusted for inflation, farm workers' wages have been stagnant for 15 years."
There's no shortage of workers.
Just a shortage of pay!
And for what we're paying for apples & peaches at a buck & a half a pound retail...somebody is making a HUGE PROFIT!
I unloaded produce boxcars & trucks 40 years ago.
And I can tell you I was making more than ten bucks an hour then!
It's not the growers ... they're getting hammered by low-priced imported fruit.
I recall posting a few articles about legal migrant workers a few months ago. Several had worked here illegally in the past. As I recall they were being paid in the $9 to $12 range, which they described as being about double their wages as illegals. Transportation was employer paid, rather than worker paid to a coyote. As was housing. As I noted earlier, I'd like to see medical and liability insurance required. And the workers come back to the same job year after year. Obviously hiring an illegals is much cheaper.