You think most customers (and voters) would endorse significant price increases for many categories of food, for the sake of employing only documented workers legally?
You think most customers (and voters) would endorse significant price increases for many categories of food, for the sake of employing only documented workers legally?
We're paying top dollar for food anyway. I'd rather it go to the people picking the peppers and lettuce than the folks who write the press releases about how well Big Ag treats its "guest workers." Good pay and working conditions is the right thing to do for these workers, and just as important, ensures there will always be people lining up to pick our peppers and lettuce.
We have some of the cheapest food in the world as percentage of income. Cheap food is why Americans are so far. ItтАЩs like griping about gas prices. We are all so spoiled.
Doesn't it have to mean that? Isn't avoiding the expenses of legally competitive wages, and health and safety protections, the whole point of hiring undocumented?
There are apparently not enough undocumented, workers so some states are rolling back child labor protections. I still remember the articles about the conditions in the meat packing plants during COVID, and I doubt they have improved.
No. You seem to equate "legally competitve" wages with "sufficient pay." And what do undocumented workers receive, anyway? Many of them have made a life for themselves in the US, pay taxes, and only worry that some MAGAhole will turn them in after 10-15 of being better citizens than the bosses who evade taxes when and wherever they can, see TFG and his tax returns.
You think most customers (and voters) would endorse significant price increases for many categories of food, for the sake of employing only documented workers legally?
They can pay up or stop eating. Their choice.
We're paying top dollar for food anyway. I'd rather it go to the people picking the peppers and lettuce than the folks who write the press releases about how well Big Ag treats its "guest workers." Good pay and working conditions is the right thing to do for these workers, and just as important, ensures there will always be people lining up to pick our peppers and lettuce.
Indeed. But it's seen as politically dangerous.
We have some of the cheapest food in the world as percentage of income. Cheap food is why Americans are so far. ItтАЩs like griping about gas prices. We are all so spoiled.
"Cheap food is why Americans are so fat."
*Shitty junk food*/poor diets is (primarily) why so many Americans are so fat.
Same thing. High fructose corn syrup.
*fat
That is not what I wrote, unless you take "paid sufficiently for what (s)he does" to mean only documented workers.
Doesn't it have to mean that? Isn't avoiding the expenses of legally competitive wages, and health and safety protections, the whole point of hiring undocumented?
There are apparently not enough undocumented, workers so some states are rolling back child labor protections. I still remember the articles about the conditions in the meat packing plants during COVID, and I doubt they have improved.
No. You seem to equate "legally competitve" wages with "sufficient pay." And what do undocumented workers receive, anyway? Many of them have made a life for themselves in the US, pay taxes, and only worry that some MAGAhole will turn them in after 10-15 of being better citizens than the bosses who evade taxes when and wherever they can, see TFG and his tax returns.