Sympathy meter pegged out some time ago.
Garment workers have had it tough since before the flood.
This is just The Post taking a cheap shot at Trump’s insistence on ‘Made in America.’
““There’s nothing to do but take it,” Pedro said in an interview earlier this month, recalling his workweek. “”
It’s like that for everybody. Why is this guy, “Pedro”, whining, specifically?
I wonder what the nationalities are of the owners. Most likely immigrants themselves taking advantage of less fortunate immigrants.
Replace Pedro with a robot and then send Pedro back to where he came from.
Alternative is find a higher salary (”a thing is worth what another will pay for it”), or no salary at all.
Build the Wall and secure the border with lots of Border Guard or US Troops and start deporting Pedro and his friends and then Evil American Capitalists® will not be able to exploit underprivileged illegal aliens.
I used to be the CPA for several large garment manufacturers in the USA. It absolutely amazed me to walk through a facility with 400+ garment workers all working piece rate.
I never saw such efficiency in human motion. It was beautiful.
We had a major problem in that the workers in the southern manufacturing plants with the same garment and the same equipment, could not make minimum wage while the northern plants were making double minimum wage or more. There was a huge differential in work ethic between the north and the south.
No undocumented worker within the US could ever be exploited by a US company if they left the country.
Also if he cleared 225.00 dollars then the pay is not $5.o0 an hour, as there are taxes, medicare, and social security withheld. That is assuming that he is not being paid under the table because he is an illegal alien, and the owner is operating an illegal sweat factory. In the process that owner is also screwing the citizenry in that area.
The problem is that most garment manufacturers use sub contractors. There is a huge difference in pay, benefits and quality of work environment between independent contractors.
I see LA has a $10 minimum wage.
Is that $5 his net pay? What are his deductions? Any child support?
More fake news by the compost.
most of them undocumented, being paid below the legal minimum wage
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They are not undocumented, they are illegal aliens.
Just another reason why enforcement of immigration laws is needed.
Illegal aliens cannot be exploited by unscrupulous employers if they are not here.
Well, this is exactly what your “Made in the USA” label means. Sorry for the widely believed illusion of middle class garment workers pulling their brand-new Chrysler mini-vans into the parking lots of gleaming factories in North Carolina, but that is a fantasy that Americans will never pay the retail price necessary to support. Do the work here, and this is what it will always look like.
Illegal aliens broke into my industry and forced the wages down to half of what they were In the late 90s. I figure they’ve stolen at least a million dollars in income off my family’s table over the last decade.
So, when he was offered the job did he think to ask how much was the pay? He could have turned it down and looked for something better.
Pedro, “immigrant”...gtfo. Yesterday.
Is there any mention or suggestion in the article of the solution that dare not be tried, enforcing existing laws? If I see a shirt that’s $10, I might buy it. I don’t agonize over whether it’s $10 because Pedro is underpaid.
No one forced them to come and no one is forcing them to stay.
Ironically, for the author, getting rid of the illegals is the solution to them being paid these low wages....