Posted on 02/17/2020 2:56:24 PM PST by karpov
Skilled jobs remain high paid, union or not. For unskilled/semiskilled, not so much anymore, albeit still better pay than in Texas. A large number of private sector projects are no longer unionized.
Hispanic or Latino?
Does Latino include Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian?
Mr. Huertas wife, Maria Guazhco...
Yeah, sure. Different names but married.
They are probably hired by subcontractors; many projects also require 51% minority workers (including preferred racial minorities and female workers).
As much as I like Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs”, the fact is that many of those jobs are filled with unskilled illegals - at least in my area (in NJ, a dozen miles west of Manhattan). Friends in the trades have lost their jobs to them, and employers have no interest in hiring Americans if they can avoid it.
At a local outdoor flea market, you can see the illegals buying tools from the idled American workers; it is a shame...
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