I just spoke to somone in the office of the Subcommittee. He said that the President of the United Farm Workers went on Stephen Colbert’s show to advertise the “Take our jobs campaign” and invited Colbert to join him in the fields to “experience the day in the life of a farm worker”.
That is what Colbert is going to testify about tomorrow.
The number to the Subcommittee is: 202-225-3926
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TAKE OUR JOBS CAMPAIGN
There are two issues facing our nation—high unemployment and undocumented people in the workforce—that many Americans believe are related.
Missing from the debate on both issues is an honest recognition that the food we all eat - at home, in restaurants and workplace cafeterias (including those in the Capitol) - comes to us from the labor of undocumented farm workers.
Agriculture in the United States is dependent on an immigrant workforce. Three-quarters of all crop workers working in American agriculture were born outside the United States. According to government statistics, since the late 1990s, at least 50% of the crop workers have not been authorized to work legally in the United States.
We are a nation in denial about our food supply. As a result the UFW has initiated the “Take Our Jobs” campaign.
Farm workers are ready to welcome citizens and legal residents who wish to replace them in the field. We will use our knowledge and staff to help connect the unemployed with farm employers. Just fill out the form to the right and continue on to the request for job application.
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TAKE ACTION:
Exciting News. UFW President Arturo Rodriguez was on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report talking about the UFW’s Take Our Jobs campaign.If you haven’t see it please watch the video.
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So the subcommittee should have invited UFW President Arturo Rodriguez, not Colbert. Maybe someone could ask him why he thinks real farm wages have not risen in 25 years? Could it be....the fact that there is an unlimited supply of illegal labor exerting downward pressure on their wages?
( The real answer is farm mechanization, not more illegals )
I bet Sean Hannity has been on the AZ border a few more times than Steven Colbert has been ‘in the fields’ for migrant workers. But, who needs balance?