Breitbart:
The latest 1,305-page draft House appropriations bill for 2018 uses a bureaucratic trick on page 732 to help employers cut wages for foreign H-2B seasonal workers — and indirectly, also cut wages for American workers.
“Republicans in Congress still haven’t got the message that voters sent last November,” said Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations for NumbersUSA. She continued:
Americans elected President Trump because they are tired of the elites in Washington being more concerned with big-business profits than with regular American workers being able to make a living wage. Wages [for Americans] in the top H-2B occupations [landscaping and hospitality] have been stagnant or declining for years, and this bill will make them worse.
Under current rules, employers can only apply for H-2B seasonal workers if they cannot hire Americans for the jobs, and they must promise to pay H-2B workers American-level wages when they ask the Department of Labor for H-2B visas.
The new language would help employers minimize wages for H-2B workers by allowing them to cite the results of skewed “private wage surveys” of local wages. The results of the surveys would be cited in the H-2B request instead of the actual “prevailing wage” rates for local Americans working the free market for labor.
This rule, if adopted, would also hit Americans because employers use their resident population of roughly 125,000 H-2B workers to deflate any bidding war for American seasonal workers. The rule would also hurt Americans because wages for each company’s full-time American staff are informally tied to the wages paid to the seasonal workers.
I’d like to see what he’d do if somebody came up to him and said,
“Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?”
Where is the overdue program to subdue and 86 this Enemy of The People?
seriously
“Republicans in Congress still haven’t got the message that voters sent…”
It’s time to stop pretending that it’s about well-intentioned ignorance. (And Eddie Munster — among others — has to go.)
@janitor August 31, 2017 at 10:28 am
It’s time to stop pretending that “Bernie Bros with lists” are the bad guys.
Soros is getting his money’s worth with this douche.
Of course they know what the voters want. OK I’ll spell it out, politicians don’t care what the voters want.
For seasonal workers, unemployed American citizens will not pick tomatoes, cucumbers, raspberries, live in farmer provided shacks, and suffer no health care except for the nurses sent out by the county department of health. Then there’s lack of schooling for the kids.
Unemployed American citizens will not work in slaughterhouses.
It’s too bad these types of foreign workers will suffer lower wages because of the dreck in DC.
Software developers GO HOME!
Mr. Ryan apparently has a severe case of cranial rectitus which can only be cured by defeat in his next election. He seems to be doing everything to make that happen. good riddance Ryan. We all had high hopes for you but it turns out that your just another slimeball pol.
Fuck Paul (I love Antifa) Ryan. The guys a U.S. Chamber of Commerce cuck.
@janitor – “Eddie Munster” – yer killin’ me!
One thing you can say about “bait and switch” Ryan, when he’s bought he stays bought.
Ideology, the will of the people and the agenda of the President has no hold on Ryan.
Ryan’s failed leadership in the house is surpassed only by the failed leadership of Boehner. If given another term as leader, he will surpass the worst, easily.
Quit being a Tardpublican back in 2002. Independent is the only way to be, well Tea Party maybe, but the GOP now means Gaggle Of Pricks, and they need to fade away.
Eddie Munster was just supposed to be a stopgap measure until the election in the post-Boehner era. Please return him to his meaningless life as a backbencher / alleged budget Poindexter.
He is not a leader. He has no one’s proxy. The only people who follow him are buff dads at the gloryhole.
Anecdotally, since November I have seen the vast majority of my employer’s IT staff gone back to India and being replaced with Americans. I guess somebody got the message that turning a floor of our building into Little Calcutta and more and more Tikka Masala days in the cafeteria didn’t look good.
He appears,to have an on going constipation problem.
Note to Paul: Disney says the check is in the mail… keep up the good work!
Clearly, he is usurping another’s power to change a quota. Arrest the bastard!
Wages will never go up while the government imports cheap labor and it supports those who don’t work.
He looks like Eddie Munster.
Maybe we could replace him with someone on a H2B visa.
And save some money, too!
The question is, how is Congress paid off?
Base salary $100,000
Speaker: $250,000 bonus pay
Speaker gets key Chamber of Commerce bill passed into law: $1,000,000 bonus
Ryan has a lot riding on this bill
Since he’s from Wisconsin, I’d say “put him out to pasture”. Preferably the back 40.
And his butt-buddy rubio thinks we ought to start paying for venezuela’s mistakes too – when are these bastard RINO’s going to start taking we poor slobs who pay their way into consideration?
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He looks like Eddie Munster and acts like Eddie Haskell.
He shows a deep contempt for the voters and feels insulated from any retribution. I hope Wisconsin gets it’s collective head out of it’s ass.
Donahue of the Chamber of Commerce owns this phony.
@organgrinder August 31, 2017 at 4:52 pm
> I hope Wisconsin gets it’s collective head out of it’s ass.
Just like the bestest parts of California, Kentucky, and a few others, who have the only say in the behavior of Ryan, Pelosi, McConnell, (cue the jingle) and the rest, when they write rules that allow them to inflict their damage on all, but only be judged by the very, very, few, what do you expect to happen? Will their victims even be allowed to swarm, like refugees, into the magical lands that have a say, any say, at all, in the presence of the virtually immune, magical few? If their victims accept their suffering, without recourse, because they, themselves, view recourse as too deplorable, why should the magical residents who launch the magical few into the highest of towers with canons of fairy dust and unicorn farts, give a rat’s ass?