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Which one of you conservative fuckers is going to start picking crops!
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cut off thier food stamps and they'll work well enough.
now, maybe you can tell us what NC laws were passed that would discourage legal migrant workers from coming here to work.
Have you ever seen people praying?Growers now are scrambling to find enough workers to keep their crops from withering on the vine and rotting on the ground. Each spring and early summer, thousands of undocumented workers, mainly from Florida, travel to Georgia and states further north to work. Charles Hall, executive director of Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Association, said farmers are finding only between 30 percent and 50 percent of the 11,000 farm hands needed to the harvest their crops, producing a labor shortage that will hit the industry with a loss of $250 million.
The shortage clearly puts the lie to the myth held by critics of U.S. farming practices that desperate unemployed U.S. citizens will do farm work if it is available to them. The Georgia Labor Department released a survey showing that unemployment in Irwin County, where blackberries are a major crop, is at 13 percent, yet very few people went to the fields. Of those who did, the overwhelming majority walked away.
Get-Tough Laws Hurt More than Immigrants « Farmworkers Forum
More failed Republican policies.
OK GOP, take a good long look at your "farm workers".
Georgia law has no affect in NC. Legal migrant workers have noithing to fear, illegal aliens shouldn't be here to begin with, and every person who showed up and walked off should have any benefit they recieve cut off... being outdorrs and hungry is a great motivator for lazy ignorant scum who refuse to work.cut off thier food stamps and they'll work well enough.
now, maybe you can tell us what NC laws were passed that would discourage legal migrant workers from coming here to work.
The Georgia law, HB 87, which does not take effect until July 1, already has had an effect as farm workers are staying away for fear of racial profiling. Workers caught with phony documents could be fined up to $250,000 and get 15 years in prison the same sentence for murder in Georgia.
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Workers will stay away from the entire area.
In GA they were paying $12 per hour and they couldn't get the lazy ignorant scum to get off thier deadbeat asses to come out to work. Cut off their benefits and they'll work quick enough.The article fails to say how much these farmers are paying per hour for this labor. The closest the article comes to saying what the wages are is that "these crops pay low piece wages" You sound like you are anti GOP so can I assume you are somewhat liberal? Do you think it is right for the farmers to pay crap lower than minimum wages to farm help so you can enjoy a 50cent peach just because the worker is illegal? Perhaps without the illegals to do the work for half price the farmers will have to now actually pay for the service they want to hire?
Growers now are scrambling to find enough workers to keep their crops from withering on the vine and rotting on the ground. Each spring and early summer, thousands of undocumented workers, mainly from Florida, travel to Georgia and states further north to work. Charles Hall, executive director of Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Association, said farmers are finding only between 30 percent and 50 percent of the 11,000 farm hands needed to the harvest their crops, producing a labor shortage that will hit the industry with a loss of $250 million.
The shortage clearly puts the lie to the myth held by critics of U.S. farming practices that desperate unemployed U.S. citizens will do farm work if it is available to them. The Georgia Labor Department released a survey showing that unemployment in Irwin County, where blackberries are a major crop, is at 13 percent, yet very few people went to the fields. Of those who did, the overwhelming majority walked away.
Get-Tough Laws Hurt More than Immigrants « Farmworkers Forum
More failed Republican policies.
OK GOP, take a good long look at your "farm workers".
Looks like N.C. is getting ready to reap what they sown.cut off thier food stamps and they'll work well enough.
now, maybe you can tell us what NC laws were passed that would discourage legal migrant workers from coming here to work.
In GA they were paying $12 per hour and they couldn't get the lazy ignorant scum to get off thier deadbeat asses to come out to work. Cut off their benefits and they'll work quick enough.The article fails to say how much these farmers are paying per hour for this labor. The closest the article comes to saying what the wages are is that "these crops pay low piece wages" You sound like you are anti GOP so can I assume you are somewhat liberal? Do you think it is right for the farmers to pay crap lower than minimum wages to farm help so you can enjoy a 50cent peach just because the worker is illegal? Perhaps without the illegals to do the work for half price the farmers will have to now actually pay for the service they want to hire?
Have you ever seen people praying?Growers now are scrambling to find enough workers to keep their crops from withering on the vine and rotting on the ground. Each spring and early summer, thousands of undocumented workers, mainly from Florida, travel to Georgia and states further north to work. Charles Hall, executive director of Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Association, said farmers are finding only between 30 percent and 50 percent of the 11,000 farm hands needed to the harvest their crops, producing a labor shortage that will hit the industry with a loss of $250 million.
The shortage clearly puts the lie to the myth held by critics of U.S. farming practices that desperate unemployed U.S. citizens will do farm work if it is available to them. The Georgia Labor Department released a survey showing that unemployment in Irwin County, where blackberries are a major crop, is at 13 percent, yet very few people went to the fields. Of those who did, the overwhelming majority walked away.
Get-Tough Laws Hurt More than Immigrants « Farmworkers Forum
More failed Republican policies.
OK GOP, take a good long look at your "farm workers".
It's time for those farmers to start having children again
