'These guys work six 12-hour days': VT dairy farms anxious after migrant workers arrested
'These guys work six 12-hour days': VT dairy farms anxious after migrant workers arrested
MAGA can take those hours. I mean, those are the jobs they want right?!
They're also gonna arrest the owners of those farms right?? They clearly broke the law and were harboring illegals. Right? Right?
The owners probably voted for Trump.
If undocumented workers start to talk about unions or working conditions, then you can call in ICE. Once the troublemakers are gone, hire another round of workers, rinse and repeat.
"Dey took ur jerbs!" 😡
"Ew, not those jerbs." ✋😒
I'm conflicted.
Making those poor bastards work 12 hour days, 6 days per week for small money is pretty fucked.
Sending them to somewhere that may be a death camp is worse tho.
Feels like the article set up a false dichotomy.
I have a dairy farm. A few years ago I asked my employees if we should add a third shift and do 8 hours instead of 12. They work hard, is seemed like a reasonable idea.
They hated that I even brought it up. They want money and they want to work. I was specifically told by one of my leads that if we were to go to 8 hours, they would work a shift and a half. I'm paying over the average rate for dairy work, and everyone gets vacation days based on tenure. And 90 percent of my employees will work their vacation days and take the paycheck. They don't want less hours. They have bills to pay and family to support and shorter hours are less money. Same as most Americans I know. I get it.
I'm not saying it is everyone, but the guys I work with have incredible work ethic and a priority to make money and get ahead in life. And I'm all for that.
What I'm tired of is my people being scared of American politics and the potential for their work and investment in this country to get ripped away on the whim of some scared Karens and the policies maga has enabled. I hate it.
What’s your starting and average per hour pay for them? And are they getting four hours of OT on those twelve hour shifts?
They don’t want less hours. They have bills to pay and family to support and shorter hours are less money. Same as most Americans I know. I get it.
This isn't praise of how hard everyone wants to work. It's a damning sign of how shitty the pay and quality of life has gotten in the US.
Yep, people don't understand that these guys are moving temporarily to work, not to hang around and go on leisure walks or whatever (hell, they possibly rely on their employer to travel any kind of distance which in some cases means that they're stuck in a super rural location because they also live on the piece of land that they work on). I mentioned it in another comment but they might even want to work more than 72h and it might be their boss setting some limits.
And it keeps all of our food prices lower, not that it's right.
Trump apparently had lots of farmer votes so aaahhww, I don't give a shit. Work 7 20 hour days per week, and I still won't care. Lose your farm? Aaahhh www, I don't give a shit.
Suffer the consequences from your actions
Just round up the nearest magats who are on welfare to replace this guy's lost labor. Pretty easy they like rounding up people anyway.
Can you imagine some overweight dumbass having to work for the first time.
They were talking about income requirements for social security. Time to make gamgam go back to the good ole days and work on tge farm again!
"Oh no! My exploited labor!" Fuck off. What's happening is atrocious, but not because these fuckers can't continue to underpay immigrants.
My SiL works with temporary foreign workers in Canada for one of the companies that is considered to be the best in how they treat their employees. Those workers are unionized and their employer had to limit them to 75h/week as they were asking to work even more than that... In a sense I kinda can understand them, they're here to work and don't know anyone except for their coworkers, some of whom they share an apartment with, and they don't speak the local language so might as well be paid all day instead of being at home in front of the TV waiting for your next shift...
What does that have to do with unrepresented immigrant laborers? Do you think they are really getting a union level wage?
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