Posted on 03/15/2018 6:09:14 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
A whistleblower in the southern California construction industry says illegal alien workers have taken over every trade in the business while driving down wages by an estimated 40 percent.
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Blaine Taylor, the whistleblower, said the construction industry in California once offered a starting wage of about $45 an hour in the late 1980s. Fast-forward to 2018 nearly two decades into when illegal aliens began flooding the industry he now says that wages have fallen by more than half, standing at just $11 an hour.
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Yeah, its not as if the whistle didnt turn into a giant air horn 10 years ago.
And they live 6,7,8 people to a 3 bedroom place.....
Still, by your description it was piecework. It was not $45 per hour, even if his speed allowed him to earn the equivalent. And a journeyman is not an entry level position.
We had 16 people living in a four bedroom house in our neighborhood. Two families and four individual boarders. One family and the four boarders were illegally subletting from the original renters. The owners of the property live in another state and have a property management company overseeing the property. The HOA caught them. Reports of 7 cars parking at the property led them to investigate. A ticked off neighbor had recorded video of them leaving for work and school. When confronted, they admitted to it. The HOA contacted the owner of the property about the situation, but received no response. They then started fining the owner $100 every 10 days. The fines and penalties soon exceeded $3000.
The owner finally contacted the HOA and resolved the situation. Why the delay? The owner claims he didn't care about the fines until the amount exceeded the security deposit of the renters!
“And they live 6,7,8 people to a 3 bedroom place.....”
So what-———lots of families lived that way.
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Michigan. One contractor seems to have mostly white guys. Beautiful craftsman style homes.
He earned the equivalent of 45/hr.
All rockers, tapers, painters of
that time, we’re paid by the sq/ft.
(union or not).
He also passed the journeyman’s test
at the time of his job application.
He didn’t have to start at entry level.
We put up a little over 100 4x12 sheets
per day. At .07/sq ft that comes out to
roughly $350 per day.
By the way, I passed my journeyman’s
test also. The carpenters local
had a room with a bare framed false
wall with faux electrical boxes and
plumbing pipes. 2 sheets of rock
on the floor. The union rep would
time and judge the applicant on
his use of the tools and methods
used to hang the rock. Nailing speed
and proper setting of the nails was
a big part of the test.
That’s how it was back then. I’m sure
the qualifications to become a journeyman
these days, is one would have to start
at entry level, and serve a certain
amount of time, working your way up.
I knew some illegals in SoCal..that lived in a garage...with a dirt floor. That was in 1995...
That is how illegals live...and in tent cities..also.
And again....that was my point.
” And again....that was my point. “
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I got your point,I certainly was not criticizing.
The city where I raised my family put a limit of 4 unrelated people that can live in a house-—this was because of students crowding in.
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Illegals bring the hellhole with them... they work cheap - open jobs for ‘friends’ who are like them - and allow ‘elites’ to make mucho dinero.
In short they destroy the middle class and create a culture like the one they escaped.
It’s time to negotiate for Californian to become it’s own country as long as they take ALL illegals in the United States... AND pay for a Wall between them and the United States... In twelve years people in California will try to escape into the United States and the Wall will stop them...
No worries, FRiend.
“Blaine Taylor, the whistleblower, said the construction industry in California once offered a starting wage of about $45 an hour in the late 1980s. Fast-forward to 2018 nearly two decades into when illegal aliens began flooding the industry he now says that wages have fallen by more than half, standing at just $11 an hour.”
That is a actually a drop of more than three quarters and when adjusted for inflation eleven an hour now can’t be more than at most an eighth of what forty five an hour was worth in the late 1980s. They are saying that construction workers in California have gone from middle class to poverty.
>>Their wages are lower than citizens wages, because some of the costs (free medical, dodging taxes with stolen identity, schools for their kids, etc) are shifted from the wage payer to the taxpayer.
This is the intent of the globalists and of Wall St itself. It is why the ultra-wealthy are almost all champions of Progressivism.
They want to be able to use the government to supplement the workers’ low wages, so that when the standard of living for the working class “needs” to be lowered, the power of government can do it with the stroke of pen and it is uniformly applied across the whole spectrum of workers (to end wage competition).
Socialism does not create uniform wealth. It only creates uniform poverty.
Apparently arithmetic is not being taught any longer. There is first a mention of a forty percent decline, then a reference of “more than half”. In reality it is more than three quarters without reference to inflation so after adjustment it is no more than one eighth. This would indicate that California construction workers have dropped from middle class to poverty level. Eleven an hour would barely support a single man here in SC where living costs are well below California level.
Democrats are responsible for both.
It’s always the Democrats.
Now hold on here, W was overseas a month ago and he said they are doing the jobs Americans won’t do.
Sure, and based on that, what percent do you think will vote Republican?
One percent?
One tenth of one percent?
One period?
Sure, Bush is a nice guy, compassionate & all, but illegal immigration is all about Democrats finding new voters to insure their permanent majority.
Indeed, when you think about it, illegal immigrants served exactly the same function for Democrats today as the Constitution's 3/5 rule did before the Civil War -- it increases their Congressional & electoral college representation by census counting people who are non-citizens.
Welcome to my world.
My wife and I have seen the income from our small construction business cut in half, over the last dozen years, ALL of it due to illegals depressing wages in our industry.
I appreciate President Trump going after the “bad hombres”, but illegals in the trades have taken millions of dollars off my family’s table.
I've been in the trades since 1979, and can tell you that non-union journeymen only made half that wage in the late 80s.
Even when an American does manage to get hired, they don't last, because the rest of the crew only speaks Spanish.
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