Posts Tagged ‘farm work’

Doing Jobs Americans Will Not

Monday, July 5th, 2010

What is going on here?  A Brewster Washington farmer is flying in 300 Jamaican farm workers to pick crops. The issue started during an INS paper check forcing the farmer to let go hundreds of Mexican workers. Conservative statist commentators were dancing in the street that now the farmer forced against his property rights, has to hire real American workers at around $11.00 dollars an hour plus room and board and transportation, not a bad deal for an unemployed native worker.  The farmer tired and the result was no takers. Needing to find workers, he had to look elsewhere.  I do not blame the farmer, he played by the rules.

(more…)