No lack of American citizen personnel for nursing. Recent grads go without work while they are imported from Nigera, India, & such. Get one of them in a position of authority and you end up with "all-Indian" floors as they discriminate in favor of similar imports. Same with the Nigerians, but they usuall y come with the increased risk of sexual assault from the male Nigerian nurses.
Plenty of comp sci grads going without work, too.
The farm labor component of fruits & vegetables is a tiny proportion of the price paid by the consumer. Double the cost of farm labor and a head of lettuce goes up a whopping $0.05 or so to the consumer. There is a level of pay where I would quit my current job and do any of these jobs.
Have not seen studies for engineering, software, & IT, but the non-labor cost per hour of my time charged a customer dwarfs my labor (salary, benefits, etc.). IOW, overhead and compliance and all that jazz is greater than the cost of labor.
Do I hear a call for tariffs? Sounds good to me. NAFTA and WTO have been nothing but a curse.
Indeed. They were hammered in court for collusion and anti-competitive practices. And retaliated against companies that did not play ball.
Maybe it's different in TX, but in CA, nursing jobs go begging. I have a couple of relatives in the field getting tons of overtime they'd rather not have.
Anyway, I don't want to start a whole big thing, but I guess I'm a little confused that on a forum where most of the members are all capitalist and Ayn Rand, that we're mad at private businesses hiring whoever the hell they want, and private citizens, whether born here or here legally, accepting whatever wage they want.
There are several threads here about the stupidity of college degrees as prerequisites for so many jobs, especially in IT. So who cares if the person with a comp sci degree from a crappy state college can't get a job, but the self-taught kid from Kansas (or Poland) with hands-on mad skillz can? Or that they may decide that they're fine with $25/hr, while a degreed individual with no experience thinks they're worth $50/hr, and dammit, it's the fault of big business that they can't find a job in their field?
I also don't see much difference between this and 'Right to Work" states. I think most here are in favor of them. Isn't a primary design of that system to allow businesses to hire who they want, and if a person is happy working at a non-union $25/hr job, vs a union $50/hr job, that they have a right to work at that lower wage if both they and their employer are happy with the deal?
I simply see individuals here legally via visa as no different than anyone else who may take a job at whatever wage. If the market approves, then maybe that's the correct wage. If the market, and consumers, see crappy service at that wage, or workers stop accepting it, or demand for the job goes up so much relative to supply, then the wage increases.
Again, as I mentioned above, I only have my one data point, but what I saw was individuals not only getting equally compensated, but individuals who worked hard and were eager to work because they went to a lot of trouble and were driven to get those visas. Certainly they worked harder with a better attitude than many of my US born coworkers, who had a "This is what I'm owed" mentality (though I also had very hard working and conscientious coworkers).
I simply see this as market forces at work.
