From the article you posted:
"Even though he pays well above minimum wage, he's also lost workers to farms that can afford to pay more. The experienced harvesters at Shade's farm can make up to $400 a day, he says. The rookies start off at minimum wage and then move up to $200 to $300 a day after a few weeks."
That doesn't sound like slave labor to me.
it also doesn't explain the reality of his employment situation.
let me explain a few things here that the article didn't.
If you are a worker, not an employer, you want a work environment where there are more employers, employment opportunities, jobs than there are people competing for them.
when this happens employers have to compete for your labor, your services, and the only way they can do that is through increased pay, compensation, signing bonuses, or benefits.
of course this means that employers have to pay more for labor. this isn't the ideal situation they want. they want more prospective employees, applicants, than there are active jobs to fill. they want waiting lists. they want people competing against one another to fill every job.
because that is how they can get away with paying the least they possibly can and making the work environment as demanding as they want it to be. they set the terms of employment, not the employee.
yet here are labor unions, democrats, worker rights groups, living wage advocates, demanding the opposite of what actually makes sense to anyone who is an American citizen..........more of what we have already been experiencing over the past few decades of wages no loner keeping up with cost of living adjustments. endless open borders and visa applicants working for less than you are willing to......and being enthusiastic about that compared to where they came from (that was also overcrowded).
even our State Department is trying to fuck us with more unfair labor competition
without other politics none of this could possibly begin to make sense.
also......it is illegal to admit to paying people less than MW as an employer.
Los Angeles County already has a higher minimum wage that went into effect last July. It's $10.50 and $12, again based on the size of the business. In July 2018, the wages will increase to $12 and $13.25.
so they tell CNN they pay MW. When in reality most of their employment is from illegal immigrants who don't report income taxes, are not on the grid, because you need a SSN or tax payer ID to do that (which is often far too much work to bother with on temp/seasonal employment).
And nobody besides farm managers/supervisors are making the higher end of the spectrum they say they pay........
So they are disclosing what they have to and what the IRS knows about........nothing else which consists of the overwhelming majority of not just their farm labor, but all farm labor inside the state.
for more on this shithead
CNN finds the least sympathetic farmer ever to make the case for more illegal immigrants
Won’t raise wages? Check!
Won’t use legal immigrants? Check!
Won’t automate? Check!
So the only solution is illegal immigrants working for below market wages with no health care or housing? Spare us, please.
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
this shade's farm idiot moron actually said that automation efforts make avocados less nutritious
LMAO