We need workers to pick lettuce and tomatoes in America's Salad Bowl.
We need workers to pick lettuce and tomatoes in America's Salad Bowl.
Throw a copy of "Grapes of Wrath" at the Rust Belt.
Maybe we should bring in some Ukrainian mail-order laborers?
I am currently under-employed, to be modest. I have 2 friends who are in the same boat. We live in a farm town, but it's winter here now, no farming to be done.
Fly us out to California, and we'll pick vegetables 12 hours per day. No joke.
I'll do it wrote:
I am currently under-employed, to be modest. I have 2 friends who are in the same boat. We live in a farm town, but it's winter here now, no farming to be done.
Fly us out to California, and we'll pick vegetables 12 hours per day. No joke.
You won't make enough to pay for one of the tickets, one way.
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
I'll do it wrote:I am currently under-employed, to be modest. I have 2 friends who are in the same boat. We live in a farm town, but it's winter here now, no farming to be done.
Fly us out to California, and we'll pick vegetables 12 hours per day. No joke.
You won't make enough to pay for one of the tickets, one way.
You are fluent in Spanish, right? High school Spanish won't do it.
Tough to pay the 700k house in crappy Gilroy on what pickers get paid. But let's be real, the day I see white people out there...Well that's just never going to happen. They'll complain that Mexicans stole their jobs while refusing to work.
Really though high school students should go out there and work. But they're too lazy for that as well.
Increase the pay, problem solved! Seems to work for CEOs, college and healthcare administrators, utility infielders, and government workers.
Adam Smith wrote:
Increase the pay, problem solved! Seems to work for CEOs, college and healthcare administrators, utility infielders, and government workers.
Get ready for a $5 tomato
My previous post was not pejoritive either. My mother's side of my family arrived in CA from Nebraska during the dust bowl specifically to work in the fields. I work in a rural town where the dominant industry is nut and fruit farming. Many of the white kids at my school have family who emigrated during the dust bowl.
Wrong, there's not enough workers willing to work for peanuts. They need to raise the hourly rate. But it's easier to complain about a labor shortage.
Farms should invest in robotics, auto-pickers if they can't pay people what they want.
I used to ride bikes in "pinot noir" country in Oregon. There'd be HUGE mansions at the top of the hills with shacks/hovels by the road for the workers. You can see it on the satellite maps now too. It was quite disgusting the greed in plain site off the backs of workers. And I'm a free market guy. Farm owners need to raise the rates and swallow the profit difference. They refuse to do that however, and yes they'll try to charge $5 for a tomato instead... Or just destroy the crops and beg for a handout for the failed crops.
CoachB wrote:
Adam Smith wrote:Increase the pay, problem solved! Seems to work for CEOs, college and healthcare administrators, utility infielders, and government workers.
Get ready for a $5 tomato
Only in California, where Democrats support crony capitalism. Other states will buy their tomatoes from Mexico.
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NO pickers NO salads wrote:
We need workers to pick lettuce and tomatoes in America's Salad Bowl.
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NO pickers NO salads wrote:We need workers to pick lettuce and tomatoes in America's Salad Bowl.
It's called visit California and do some actual journalism.
portland cyclist wrote:
I used to ride bikes in "pinot noir" country in Oregon. There'd be HUGE mansions at the top of the hills with shacks/hovels by the road for the workers. You can see it on the satellite maps now too. It was quite disgusting the greed in plain site off the backs of workers. And I'm a free market guy.
It's the perfect example of free markets.
Mondovino mentions this as well. We try to recognize what they do for us--we give them a T-shirt or a hat
It's not fair (to agribusiness owners) to point out out that agricultural labor is a small part of the price of a tomato, although it is accurate.
Aggy labor is hard and dangerous work, and of course vitally important because without it most of us starve.
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NO pickers NO salads wrote:We need workers to pick lettuce and tomatoes in America's Salad Bowl.
Here ya go, not hard is it?
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=agricultural+worker+shortage+in+california&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=#q=agricultural+worker+shortage+in+california&tbs=qdr:mNO pickers NO salads wrote:
We need workers to pick lettuce and tomatoes in America's Salad Bowl.
where all the tough, gritty, REAL AMERICANS who like to talk about how hard they work & grind? (and voted Trump)
LRC PHD wrote:
NO pickers NO salads wrote:We need workers to pick lettuce and tomatoes in America's Salad Bowl.
where all the tough, gritty, REAL AMERICANS who like to talk about how hard they work & grind? (and voted Trump)
I picked vegetables as a kid. It's hard work.
The Japanese farmers want Mexicans to bring their entire families to pick,
become pafrt of the community, attend Hartnell JC, San Jose State, etc.
The Gringo farmers only want adult Mexicans to pick, stay in tenements, and go
back to Mexico when season is over.