Donald Trump’s Deportation Plan Causes ‘Panic’ Among Farmers who can’t find enough workers

[Tbird19482]

This is funny. Look at the FAFO ! Good luck getting Kyle and Brad to pick the fruit in the sun all day with no breaks and water for min wage. It's not going to happen.

The big farmers down around the MAR, FLA area do not pay their workers by the hour they pay them by how much they pick , it is so much a bushel , the worker can take all the breaks they want if they don't produce they don't get as much pay.
They have lunch breaks and all the water they want.
My friends own most of the farms in the area and have since just after WWII and they have certain ones they know will really work so when they send their bus in the morning they look for them and if one of the other farmers got the good ones they get what is left so they are there picking up the workers early and I have seen some times their buses show up and are sitting there and the workers can choose who they want to work for that day, all the farmers I know down there treat their workers very good.

 

[The Trump Administration]

Dems and GOP know that illegal immigration is cheap, exploitable labor.

So?

 

[Hume]

So?

So a meaningless issue.

 

[The Trump Administration]

So a meaningless issue.

Is it?

 

[Hume]

Is it?

Do you try to be stupid?

 

[The Trump Administration]

Do you try to be stupid?

Answer the question, if you can.

 

[Tbird19482]

Well over a decade ago when Republiclowns launched one of their attacks on immigration and reduced the number of workers available to do agricultural labor (field hands) I read an article in Forbes Magazine about farmers in Washington state having to choose between which crops they'd harvest and which ones they'd have let rot on the ground.

When asked why they couldn't hire Americans at a good wage to do the work, the answer then was the same as it was on the news a couple of nights ago.... Americans just will not do that kind of work at any wage. Offer them $30 per hour and they still wouldn't do it. The ones who respond to the ads work a half a day then haul ass by lunch without even picking up their pay.

The way these things usually work is that right-wingers make a lot of noise about deporting brown people who talk funny just to fire up the morons for an election then after they get in office, lobbyists for industries which use immigrant labor convince them to back off.

Well again most farmers I know pay their workers by how much they pick, so much a bushel for say Tomatoes ,
NOT on dollars per hour.
If it was so much an hour people get lazy and wouldn't pick as much as they do by the amount they pick.

 

[Hume]

Answer the question, if you can.

After I say something, read it. If you don't understand, say, "I don't understand." Quit being a troll.

 

[The Trump Administration]

After I say something, read it. If you don't understand, say, "I don't understand." Quit being a troll.

I didn't think you could answer the question, and I was right.

 

[Hume]

I didn't think you could answer the question, and I was right.

You love talking about nothing.

 

[The Trump Administration]

You love talking about nothing.

Do I?

 

[Hume]

Do I?

^^Poor, lonely, asshole.

 

[The Trump Administration]

^^Poor, lonely, asshole.

Are you?

 

[Nomad]

Well again most farmers I know pay their workers by how much they pick, so much a bushel for say Tomatoes ,
NOT on dollars per hour.
If it was so much an hour people get lazy and wouldn't pick as much as they do by the amount they pick.

I don't think many of them do that anymore because of minimum wage and overtime law requirements, which vary from state to state. .

Croptracker - Farm labor: should I pay my employees piece rate?

Should I Pay My Farm Employees Piece Rate? We take a look at the definition of piece-work, the ins and outs of piecemeal payouts, and how to calculate piece pay and overtime pay.

www.croptracker.com

 

[Nomad]

Find more than two names. If you can.

Typical half-witted chickenshit trumper POS has no argument.

Up your game, sonny boy.

 

[The Trump Administration]

Typical half-witted chickenshit trumper POS has no argument.

Up your game, sonny boy.

Names. Or you lose.

 

[Tbird19482]

I don't think many of them do that anymore because of minimum wage and overtime law requirements, which vary from state to state. .

Croptracker - Farm labor: should I pay my employees piece rate?

Should I Pay My Farm Employees Piece Rate? We take a look at the definition of piece-work, the ins and outs of piecemeal payouts, and how to calculate piece pay and overtime pay.

www.croptracker.com

I can't say for sure but the last I knew they did , from what I know if they don't pick enough to be more then what the min wage is the farmer makes it up and that picker won't be back the next day.

 

[Nomad]

Names. Or you lose.

You've already lost by virtue of your idiotic demand for a list of names, something which even if there was one, would never been published.

So, I'm not playing your childish little game.

You lose.

 

[Lionfish]