Mitt’s pandering. Those business should raise their bids for labor. They are competing in a market for labor. They want to have temporary, dislocated, no benefits, no pension high quality labor. Well, then pay. The price is the price. Ask Google, IBM, heck ask Mitt's company for below cost service, see what you get.
I guess to business value neutral Mitt, we are the “consuming public.”
>>>They are competing in a market for labor. They want to have temporary, dislocated, no benefits, no pension high quality labor. Well, then pay. The price is the price. Ask Google, IBM, heck ask Mitt’s company for below cost service, see what you get.<<<
What you tend to get are college-educated Eastern Europeans with a fabulous work ethic who are willing to put in long hours and by far outperform and are more reliable than comparable American employees—if you could even get them. They don’t ask for much, they put in their time, and they use their earnings to save for college or buy things that they couldn’t afford to buy back home.
Having made many friends who went this route, I don’t see what the problem is. Have you ever been to a place like Wildwood, New Jersey after August? There is a reason the price of a hotel room falls from $250 a night to $45 per night in the offseason and why the traffic dies down exponentially. You know many people who are going to be willing to relocate to work in a diner or a hotel for the summer? And compete with the rent paid for by tourists and seasonal travelers?
Yeah, my girlfriend, who is Romanian, came to the US over the summer to work in a hotel and a restaurant. She was working 70-80 hours per week. She paid for a good portion of her college expenses while doing it. As the summer faded into fall, her boss even let her employees move into the hotel. Why? Simply because the rooms were empty.
My exact same thoughts.