I operate a 1240 acre Tomato farm and now my Tomato harvest is done mechanically by a contract Harvester who has 2 very late model machines. I used to employ 40 workers for about 2 weeks. Now I have 3 permanent employees and they bring in 4 more temporary help during the harvest. In my area the University of California at Davis Ag School is really committed to helping any farmer engaged in a serious well planned operation.
Farmers face huge losses over migrant worker delays
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Shouldn't be a problem if the Work Visa system wasn't abused by both the employer and worker. Employer should know how many Visas to apply for, unless I'm missing something here
Daniel Gross correctly calls out employers who are refusing to offer wages which would make it worth working for them.
In the early years of the Obama administration, as new taxes on upper-income Americans were enacted as part of Obamacare and the expiry of the Bush tax cut loomed, it was common to hear libertarian types warn that businesspeople and entrepreneurs might just Go Galt. That is to say, if they determined that losing 50 cents of every dollar in taxation wasn’t worth their trouble, they’d take a cue from the hero of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, fold up their businesses, and quit work altogether. Check out this March 2009 Michelle Malkin column for an exegesis of this, um, idea. “Enough,” she wrote. “While they take to the streets politically, untold numbers of America’s wealth producers are going on strike financially.”
Fast-forward eight years, and it seems that a different group of people may be deciding to Go Galt: workers.
Earlier this week, the Department of Labor released the latest Job Opening and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report, which tallies job openings, hires, and quits. In June, the number of open positions spiked to 6.2 million, up 461,000 from May. That’s slightly more than the entire population of Missouri. It’s a record, and it’s up 11 percent from June 2016.
more
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2017/08/more_americans_would_rather_not_work_than_take_jobs_for_the_stingy_wages.html
In the early years of the Obama administration, as new taxes on upper-income Americans were enacted as part of Obamacare and the expiry of the Bush tax cut loomed, it was common to hear libertarian types warn that businesspeople and entrepreneurs might just Go Galt. That is to say, if they determined that losing 50 cents of every dollar in taxation wasn’t worth their trouble, they’d take a cue from the hero of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, fold up their businesses, and quit work altogether. Check out this March 2009 Michelle Malkin column for an exegesis of this, um, idea. “Enough,” she wrote. “While they take to the streets politically, untold numbers of America’s wealth producers are going on strike financially.”
Fast-forward eight years, and it seems that a different group of people may be deciding to Go Galt: workers.
Earlier this week, the Department of Labor released the latest Job Opening and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report, which tallies job openings, hires, and quits. In June, the number of open positions spiked to 6.2 million, up 461,000 from May. That’s slightly more than the entire population of Missouri. It’s a record, and it’s up 11 percent from June 2016.
more
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2017/08/more_americans_would_rather_not_work_than_take_jobs_for_the_stingy_wages.html