Wanna milk cows at 4am?
‘We Voted for Trump to Fix the Border. Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.’ – Vermont Farmers Face Harsh Reality as ICE Raids Hit Home
Do these people not understand what illegal immigrant meant? It means not a US citizen, not documented here, no VISA.
‘We Voted for Trump to Fix the Border. Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.’ – Vermont Farmers Face Harsh Reality as ICE Raids Hit Home
Can we point out the obvious? Farmers rely on exploiting desperate migrant workers in violation of labor laws. Milk should cost more than it does, because it is perishable and labor intensive to produce.
It is not a good thing that ICE is sending people to death camps, nor is it ok that we are abandoning the rule of law to do it. But those are the victims. The farmers who have lower profits because they can no longer access illegally cheap labor are the real criminals.
They've been deporting those who are there legally too.
With an insufficient workforce, pay rates going up isn't necessarily enough to get you workers. Moving regions to get a new job isn't usually cheap or fast.
I don't know if the previous pay rates were illegally low (the US's definition of illegally low is itself low), but that doesn't necessarily mean that they couldn't & wouldn't pay ~$20-30/h if there were workers available.
Going from a labour-cheap world to a labour-expensive world also implies that people want to increase mechanisation and automation, and that's not cheap or fast either.
Get fucked I never once in my life met any poor farmer like you are speaking of, those days are long gone. Maybe one day I will shed a tear for a business that isn't viable because they depend on exploiting labor to extreme measures and not paying a living wage. We are all victims of the capital class, you're just one step away from being a millionaire though right?
What?
You spend a lot of time at farms?
I reckon.