Shortage of farm workers

nbc4i.com/2017/07/24/shortage-of-farm-workers-leaving-entire-fields-in-california-other-states-to-rot/

>Nine in 10 farm workers in California are foreign-born, with many of them coming from Mexico.


Now that Trump is gonna stop low skilled workers from coming in, are the Burgers ready to pick their own vegetables?

When farm wages goes up. That or robots.

>implying we eat vegetables

>oh no we have to pay workers higher wages

Who wants to eat that chemical soaked cheap garbage vegetables if they can't afford to hire legal workers. Let it rot.

Well, i guess that the farmers will have to raise wages and prices. Perhaps they should have invested in automation rather than relying on cheap foreign labor. Their business model needs improvements.

This. Wages need to go up, retail profits will be shaved
>Inb4 retail margins

I know, but something has to move. We have the same problem here.
>Mfw the solution here is to let chavs work the fields for a couple months or year and keep their bennies

Cool now high school kids can get a summer job. Next we need to get rid of people who are above 30 and working at mcdonalds.

>The debate on immigration has been hitting America’s farms, which are now losing millions in lost crops due to a shortage of agricultural migrant workers.

>Now, farmers are paying well above minimum wage, offering 401K plans, paid time off, and other incentives to try to lure workers back to the fields.

This

Cheap slave labor leads to a stagnation on technology

Sure once wages go up. I've worked manual labor on a farm picking produce. It's not bad at all really just wouldn't do it for mexican slave wages.

>Rich boomers have to pay white people higher wages instead of paying mestizos slave wages

>Reeeeeeeeeee it's not fairrrrr

t. Every business owning boomer

Gosh, its almost like $15 an hour is too much to hire people to pick fruit but hiring illegals isn't an option either.


If only Americans could work for lower wages.

>Instagram attention whores that rather be unemployed than work at Starbucks are gonna work the hot fields.
top kek

Sounds like the wages the farms were offering were artificially low thanks to illegal and excess legal immigration. Raise the wages and people will start doing those jobs. If it raises the cost of food, so be it.

One can only squeeze so much, decades of ignorance will sooner or later have to knock on the door.

>We don't pay proper wages for manual labor.
Pay up

>That's right goy, work for even lower wages when a one bedroom apt is $800 a month

Inb4 stop eating avocados

Now put the inflation rate next to real wages

> FIGHT FOR $15!!!!

How's that working out for you?

>Now, farmers are paying well above minimum wage, offering 401K plans, paid time off, and other incentives to try to lure workers back to the fields.

>Food prices quintuple, as a result America begins importing all its food from Mexico

>Stagnate the industry using near slave labor and unethical methods that often came from exploiting someone you could threaten with deportation
>Cry because now you might have to forfeit a tiny bit of profits to modernize and stop being a slave driver that impedes technology

Avocados actually grow in Cali and are really cheap during season.

I'll pick veggies for a legal wage.

>Now, farmers are paying well above minimum wage, offering 401K plans, paid time off, and other incentives to try to lure workers back to the fields.

Now watch as the Tolerant Left tries to explain how Americans working for a decent wage is racist, compared to a brown slave population working for pennies

MY GOD, TOMATOES ARE GOING TO BE AN EXTRA 25 CENTS PER POUND. WILL THIS HELL ON EARTH EVER RELEASE US FROM OUR PAIN?!

If we didn't start importing millions of mexicans robots would be farming our food by now. But hey boomers needed to turn an extra buck off flooding the labor market so fuck it.

fucking vinegar and water is a pesticide
your picture is useless

>industry found it was easier to pay nothing in order to profit
>industry pays employees to pester journalists about 'muh rotting vegetables
>"journalists" write about rotting vegetables

>Cheaper to allow fields to run fallow than to pay a wage people will work for

They will learn but it will take time

But user, you're just paying the market price for the food now that its no longer being subsidised by the authorities turning a blind eye to illegal immigration

>>Food prices quintuple, as a result America begins importing all its food from Mexico

>$15 minimum wage! Labor costs are a tiny percentage of the total cost!
>You can't pay farm labor a living wage! Food prices will quintuple!

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Then those prick farmers must raise the wage they pay until the jobs are filled. That's how lawful market economies work, when there is a shortage of workers, the wage is raised. These faget farmers think they are entitled to a free lunch. That bullshit ends, now.

Yer godam right we will

Who the hell eats Freedom Fries without their daily service of vegetables.

Maybe if they don't want to lose MILLIONS OF $$$$ in crops....

they should advertise job postings for $10 and hour picking positions and lose a few tens of thousands in profit instead of millions in lost crops???

Nah... that would make too much sense!

>farmers already subsidized out the ass
>oh no what will we do without indentured servitude?!

these spics get paid well.

don't believe their lies. the only reason they are the only ones to do it is because if farmer needs 5 guys, then pedro knows 5 guys to hook up with jobs.

It's like a little Mexican union. White people only function on an individual level and won't help other white people or bond together to take over a labor market the way beaners do.

and then put that next to the rate of women entering the workforce

>oh no, we have to pay at least a legal wage again!

It's almost certain Americans will have to work longer in upcoming decades because of all those illegal business and also taxes will go up, nothing will improve. Decades of ignorance gives you that, the longer you wait, the worse it will spin and longer it will spin. Politician only collect votes, are chicken when it comes to telling anybody to stop stealing or to fix illegal problems. Trump isn't even scratching the surface.

when they're ready to pay a living wage they'll have no shortage of people

Get americans to pick them for reasonable wages.

Fucking hate people defending ilegal immigrants as a "necesary workforce". No, fuck off, it's abusive, they take advantage of our people's need for jobs.

I rather have them here protesting or shinninga light on the unemployment issue in the country than being treated like slaves and we all pretending like it's charitative from americans to take them in.

Fuck off we don't need you, we will deal with our own shit.

>Shortage of farm workers

And millennials claim there's no jobs.
Lazy bastards.

Good, hire out teenagers

Especially since those illegal migrants are then subsidized through welfare, ie you and I. Not to mention every time Jose needs to go to the ER. Or when he runs someone over while driving without a license. And sends his 12 children into public schools.

Build wall

It'll benefit all of us

Then all the Mexicans can be deported to Mexico and we save hundreds of billions on welfare for illegals

Checkmate libergtardian

black people will pick them

>Burger
>Eating vegetables
> Pick one you pinko commie faggot

It's almost like the last generation has been flooding the labor market with illegal immigrants for the past 30 years.

Really tinks yr dink.

>In California
If the issue lived and died by low skilled/illegal migrants, then California, self admitted sanctuary state, would not have this problem.

Unironically a Mexican intellectual.

Guess they should increase their salary offers instead of trying to get someone to break their back in the summer heat for 7.25 an hour. That's the way the market is supposed to work.

>implying (((they))) won't simply increase prices and not wages, to force nation's to accept more of the third world.

Heaven forbid we touch their wealth.

It's funny how leftists start making arguments about profits and markets when it involves importing shitskins.

Trump's keeping out ILLEGAL immigrants, not all immigrants, you pro-EU faggot.

PUT THE INMATES TO WORK

Problem Solved.

I don't know why this isn't already a thing.

M...Maybe then instead of loosing 15 million they hire more people for a better salary they have up to 14 million to spend and still make one million in profit..

>robots
This is the answer, slave labor was making these developments unnecessary, now the demand for them is enormous

Technically a white man already makes far less and works far more and has far more debt today than he did in the 1960s

Trump wants only high skilled, english speaking workers to enter with his RAISE act, Cletus.

Do farmers even advertise these jobs? They're probably so used to illegal spics just showing up with their extended families that they've never needed to.

Eeeehhh...but we still got plenty of BLACK PEOPLE! Golly gee I'll get ta be a cracker again!
Weeee oooo! The south shall rise again.

Well theres plenty of work for them now. Will they do it?

Farm work? millennials? No way.

This.

>Without second class citizens working for pennies we'll have to use technology and pay human wages! We can't greedily hold on to medieval farming techniques forever! Boo hoo!

Let's make a deal, we don't have many sheckels.

Who's going to pay guards if they are too cheap to even hire legals or any quality check control? California has such big agriculture and they are already lost when illegals don't come, they bet their whole business on doomsday card.

Pay an attractive wage in the first place. And don't you think about offloading the additional costs onto the consumer cause we won't buy. Act less greedy or have your business go under. Either way the open market will correct what needs be

>omg not enough workers to harvest crop whatever will we do!!
>Market sees less veggies
>Demand gets higher
>ok we will pay better so that we have enough workers to harvest crop
>$$$$$

Wow!

Solution!

>raise prices on consumers, CEO and investors still pocket absurd profits

>company goes out of business, CEO and investors cash out millions or billions richer

>the only way the business stays around is if the federal government looks the other way while all labor is outsourced overseas or to illegal immigrants at slave wages and the owners put all profits into tax havens the US can't touch

Reminder this is the actual Democratic policy on united states manufacturing and agriculture.

Dunno about you Yanks, but farm work, at least in Scotland, is shit you do when you're 16-19 or so in the summer.

Do people actually expect to make careers out of that drudge work?

Wtf I love market forces now!

so Sup Forumslacks you ready to work in the fields for $7 dollars a hour?? or we just going to shit post on Sup Forums and play vidya all day?

>are the Burgers ready to pick their own vegetables?
Ultimately yes. Wages might have to increase but fuck farmers, farming is one of the most heavily subsidized industries in the US.

Illegals work for less money do landowners want to them

The land owners don't care if they are lowering wages and living standards since they are boomers who only care about the present

>vegetables

no thanks, cheeseburgers without lettuce or pickles taste even better

58 replies in this thread and not a single one of you fucks actually posted what is going on.

What happened is the communist state of California decided to fuck shit up.

They passed laws mandating overtime wages for the Pedros.

What then happened? Well some farmers started investing in more machinary.

Other farmers started hiring try to hire more workers so they wouldn't have to pay overtime. However, this means that the workers started getting less hours. So, they left.

Thank the government in California for demonstrating once again its monumental stupidity.

When I lived in California I tried to get a job as a farm worker.

I couldn't get my foot in the door. You know why? Because I wanted minimum wage.

These farmers are just false flagging because they want to pay people a $1 an hour.

Then hire a bunch of kids fresh out of highschool or on summer vacation from highschool to pick your crops at the minimum wage price? I would have GLADLY done this during my later teen years for the money and to include something in employment history. But when your competition is illegals working at half the price under the table you stand no chance.

Cue the Democrats autistic screetching about the Republicans taking their cheap farm labor for the second time around.

The funny thing is that is a double argument used by people on the left
>How will we get all these jobs done that white people refuse to do
>heh, you know we are all going to be on welfare soon because low skill jobs will be replaced with automation in ten years, im personally rooting for 5 years
>guess socialism is the future huh?

Pay American citizens more with a OSHA monitored farm..it will workout..owners make less money..but still will bee profitable with right mangement

Almost every white country has more debt and has to work longer. They just don't like to talk about inflation, they prefer to talk about 1 type of tax like paid morons they are, when inflation is thousand different taxes for different products.

>farms go out of business because they decided to rely on illegal labor that could have gone away at any time because of a change in political climate instead of working with industry to develop and refine automation technology that would have rendered the entire issue moot
>Jeff Bezos buys their farm and grows avocados with robots that are then delivered by drone having never touched a human hand until they're going in your Jeb Bush commemorative guac bowl
Seems like a non-issue to me.

That's actually really cool looking

>PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO A LIVING WAGE HUU HUUUUUU
>W-WHY AREN'T YOU WORKING FOR LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE HUU HUUU WE NEED MORE MEXICAN SLAVE LABOR HUUUUUU

>we'll go out of business if we cant have illegal labor!

sort yourself out.

>If it raises the cost of food, so be it.

Oh yeah, that's gonna go off really well. Americans right so don't want low wages for that kind of work and will not overpay for lettuce. Something has to give, though.

Good, maybe we don't need so many avocados, strawberries, and other faggy foods.

As long as we have meat and potatos we'll be fine.

wages haven't adjusted yet.

>are the Burgers ready to pick their own vegetables?

Yes, Instead of using illegal labor to keep costs artificially low the kikes in California will be forced to pay fair wages. Some food may increase in price but this is natural and everything will correct.

Your retarded self acts like min. wage farm work is the only job out there. Shill plz go manufacturing jobs are booming with pay in the upper teens

employers of h2a and h2b visa holders are REQUIRED to provide FREE HOUSING, FREE TRANSPORTATION AND REIMBURSMENT FOR THEIR TRAVEL TO AND FROM THE US

MANDATED!!!!

This is misleading, should be a log scale

>want wages to go up
>doesnt want to increase min wage

pol is seriously bipolar or straight up retarded

>hurr pol is one person

Yeah i get to paint pol with a broad brush if you guys paint minorities with a broad brush

So are the masses going to blame the farmers for charging what they're going to charge or are they going to blame the president when they have to pay $4 for heads of lettuce?

Now remember who keeps taking credit for the low gas prices and all the prices that happen in the economy.

this. I used to work at a vineyard in the foothils of Nor Cal picking grapes and basically all my friends and I were undercut by spics in the valley who weren't even reliable workers. They would show up hours late or not at all and the bosses were such faggots that they wouldn't do shit about them, but if a white guy was out there giving it his all and they determined he wasn't fast enough at the great skill of picking grapes, he would be told to work faster which led to heat sickness and once that happened and they could no longer even work, they were usually fired. I have to give it up to the Wetbacks though. since their parents didn't make them focus on education, they have been out picking in these fields since they were 8 years old and can do the job better than white people while they litter beer cans everywhere and go to their minivan to snort coke during their breaks. Living in Northern California and working on farms and in warehouses with these people is why I am red-pilled. Also these people all worked under the table and would bring about collecting welfare/unemployment while of course us white guys were 1050'd and had to pay taxes on our wages. Due to this work climate, I said fuck it and just became a NEET who works under the table jobs to get by.

America has decided that those tier of jobs (mcdonalds and lower level shit) must now be lifetime shit paying jobs for their endless army of mestizo servants

I wish this was satirical

Mexicans do. They also have turned McDonald's and Walmart jobs into "careers" that will get them paid $7.25 an hour

And Mexican don't even care since the government pays for their education, health, etc for free and they don't pay income taxes. And the business men love it because they get to pay shit wages.

Boomers and Mexicans win while whites are up shit creek

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there are plenty of americans who would work in farms but the farm owners always hire illegals because they know they can pay them less than an american in short fuck greedy farm owners