VDARE: Summer officially starts next week, on July 21. But it won’t be warming American teenagers, increasingly shut out of summer jobs by foreigners imported on temporary work permits. Thus through at least the early 1990s, businesses would bus in teenagers from southeastern Massachusetts cities like New Bedford and Fall River to work in Cape Cod vacation area. But vigorous lobbying has enabled businesses to switch to foreigners. Wages stagnated and young adult labor force participation remained low, but at least Cape Cod businesses have their seasonal underclass of foreign workers! My Make Massachusetts Great Again proposal: compel these businesses to switch back to hiring Americans.
The key seasonal labor permits are the H-2B program, which brings in low-skill workers, 80 percent of whom hail from Mexico, and the J-1 program, which brings in swaths of eastern European college students. H2-B in particular has received pushback from labor unions and left-leaning think tanks, most notably the AFL-CIO and Economic Policy Institute.
The AFL-CIO notes the search for domestic workers is oftentimes insincere and jobs employers wish to fill with foreign labor are not offered for the typical rate—businesses reportedly can save nearly 25 percent by hiring foreigners.[Fact Sheet on Why the H-2B Program is Bad for Working People, AFL-CIO.org, June 23, 2016] Meanwhile EPI points out the real wages for H-2B workers dropped from 2004 to 2014 in fields like landscaping (3.4 percent), meat/fish trimming (3.3 percent) and restaurant cooks (6.5 percent), among other occupations. [The H-2B temporary foreign worker program | Examining the effects on Americans’ job opportunities and wages, by Daniel Costa, June 8, 2016]
Basic supply and demand rules dictate that a labor shortage would benefit workers, and a delay in H-2B visas on Cape Cod in 2016 proved it. Desperate for workers, landscaping companies began offering prospective employees more money. Experienced landscapers could earn salaries in the $60,000 to $80,000 range annually with benefits, according to theCape Cod Times. [Cape landscapers in the weeds, by Lorelei Stevens, May 22, 2016]
I just couldn’t continue reading after that first sentence where the author misspelled “June”.
Where do those non-logical Not America First thinkers think the next generation of clam cooker culinarians creating their clam chowder in 2030 and 2040 are going to come from. They are showing fishy short-sightedness usually seen and heard at chambers of commerce cocktail conversations.
Why do the chambers of commerce types never advertise these openings in American venues? I’m not seeing ads for these postions online on American sites. I do see them all over foreign sites. What’s up with that?
However, even the furriners know not to work on islands like Marthas Vineyard or Provincetown. Otherwise, the male workers risk getting anally raped by Kevin Spacey and the rest of the Gay Tong
“Do you know who I am?!? Now bend over!”
Gosh. They had enough Pym Particles to post this article back on 31 AUG 2018?
So most of the H-2B folks are from Mexico? I can hear the dialog in a local restaurant; “Would you like a side of typhus with your cod dinner”?
Don’t be short-changin my summer!!
i hope the rest of the US is getting summer cuz its sure cool and wet here. Not normal at all.
Give those foreign workers complimentary beach passes and let them get eaten by the ever-increasing Cape Cod Great Whites. Then, you can replace them with American summer workers who are smart enough to stay out of the ocean.
Cape Cod – Go To The Shark Side.