Where are the workers? A farm crisis in Washington
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Washington’s farmers are at risk of losing millions of dollars in crop this season because once the harvest is ready, there are not enough workers to pick it.
It was a tough day for Auburn, Washington’s Mosby Farms: The day they disced 20 acres of zucchini back into the ground.
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And they are taking jobs from who??????
every college student who ever had to pay their way through not the governments total job
Thank you for your comment. Some people can't handle the truth.
lol most of them do not pick any food. they might for 6 months but most don't. they go into crime, black market, or other jobs. cashiers, building trades, etc good jobs americans want and need. but you can't hire americans under the table and pay no fica etc.
When she got asked how much they pay she did not really give an answer. They should ask how much money they really make minus how much they actually pay and how much money they receive from the government.
FARMERS NOW ARE ACTING LIKE THE SOUTH,''WHEN THE SLAVES WAS FREED.NOW,WHAT WE GOING TO DO,LINCOLN FREED ALL OUR SLAVES,NOW THE FARMER'S COMPLAINING ABOUT THE MEXICANS.MMM
I can bet they pay migrant workers even less than minimum wage.
Yes they do I worked in the fields with them in the summers and they got underpaid plus in many sites because this happens if bonuses are ever given the “manager” of the group normally pockets the money I’ve seen this shit whither my own eyes that’s why I say it
No they don't it's called piece work.you get payed for what you produce. When I pick grapes I would walk away with at least 150 after my dad took his cut.
@@fiddlesticksbessette398 What are you talking about? The workers would have been going there legally and they could choose to leave - that's different then people kidnapped, raped, and forced to be slaves in someone's house. Use common sense.
This is the best time for trump followers, too come an fill in this jobs.
J.O.G. work visa`s cost 4000 peso. rate is 19 peso to the dollar. they apply at the border and 7 days they get their permits . If famers want the same people that's all it cost. Come legal and problem solved
@@charlesstyron9744
I understand, but save those those 4000 pesos. Trump supporters are already here. They can do the job too, unless they are lazy.
@Choice Williams
True, but the point is farmers need man power now. And this the best time to help farmers.
@@charlesstyron9744 it costs over 10k dollars to get your status to be legal not 200 dollars (the 4k pesos u allegedly are saying it costs)
Trump's followers erase rich now nobody wanna go to work
Above minimum wage means 25 cents above minimum wage to do an outdoor labor job when I can get $3 above minimum wage at McDonald's
@Jay Kemme If Trump knew how tariffs worked, the farmers would not need to be subsidised or to use the proper term get welfare.
He went for a trade war with China, a dictatorship, so no matter what it's never going to lose. Who in China going to say enough is enough?
Markets lost to US farmers that took years to build.
are you then willing to pay more for your food?
Than don't complain about illegal immigration
minimum wage in Washington is 14$ an hour.
That's why China has surpassed the US cause of these racist idiots. pretty soon all your food will come from china too cause these companies wont have the man power to sustain the work load.
Come on republicans get your jobs you said were being taken from you .
Exactly my thought
The republicans are all too lazy to do the work
yes! i remember that, where is people asking so loudly for have the work back?
They rather be on the dole and complain about the illegals.
@@juanisaac5172 DONALD TRASH HAS NO GAME AT ALL! ....
WEAK ASS PRESIDENT ...
NO MEDICAL PROGRAM
NO WELL PAY JOB'S
NO MAKING BUSSINES WITH THE BIGGES COUNTRIES OUT THERE!
NO WALL!
NO SOLUTIONS!
GARBAGE ASS PRESIDENT!
People complain about jobs, well, pick your farm site to work at
There are plenty of homeless people in Seattle and elsewhere who could work. They don't even try to recruit Americans because their goal is to low ball people on wages and provide them with nasty living conditions. Here in Florida they pay $10 an hour to pick oranges in the heat and cram 100 people into a shed as "room and board" I have known a few Americans that worked there and said they won't do it again (mostly spanish speakers). It's primarily immigrants that do it though. People can live on $10 an hour in Mexico but the wages they pay here its like work a full time job and live homeless type of wages- and its also back breaking labor in hot weather.
This nonsense they put up about room and board and $14 an hour if that were the case I would be working on those farms. You have to realize that this puts many Americans in a position either be unemployed or work full time and be homeless. A good compromise would be maybe let about half or 3/4 of the workers be immigrants and have the farm actually hire a few Americans at a reasonable wage. This was what Trump was pushing for when he still gave out work visas but limited them- which would force farms to push up wages. Nonetheless with NAFTA they import cheap fruit and vegetables from Mexico tariff free.
My family of 7 were migrant workers for years living in a travel trailer and looking for work all over California and Washington. The farmers we worked for didn't pay much; some were nice to us, but most treated us like garbage. Child labor laws were enacted when I was in the fifth grade, but the farmers didn't comply because nobody came out to inspect. From 4 to 16 years old, summer, before and after school, hard labor was what we knew. Our parents were allowed to force us to work. The humiliation my siblings and I had to go through was nearly unbearable when attending schools in these wealthy farming communities where kids came to school dressed well and smelling good. It was customary to hear nasty smelly Mexicans. The best part about school was that some of the teachers and teachers' aids did show compassion, allowing us to sleep in class or even fix our hair. Working like this had its positives because it pushed us to become something more. My brothers all went to college, and I went to beauty school. It's so nice to work in a temperature-controlled environment. I hope some changes are made. I hope they allow migrants to work legally and pay them higher wages. Migrants will make the income they deserve, and perhaps college and high school kids will be encouraged to do these jobs in the summer. Farmers are essential, but what are they without the workers?
I'm a 60 year old white man and I understand, I worked picking tomatoes in Florida and it was hard to make just 30 dollars a day and I worked all day just like everyone else and everyone there did good to make just 30 dollars a day, greedy people is what is wrong with this world
Thank you and your family for feeding us. Without you, there would be no farms nor food.🙏
What do you do now?
@@stevencampbell365 I am a hairdresser
@@jl5034 you're full os shit. unethical farmers have come to depend on them and have turned away white americans on purpose. I know that by experience. They also are very stupid about what to do. they should have a lot more u- picks for us to pick our own food. We pay them and pick a large amount because we are canning our food. Plus more americans should get the hell out of the overpopulated cities and have a small place and grow their own orchard and garden foods. 95% of Americans used to live on a family farm, now it's only 5% or less ! what the hell happened ? all the immigrants went to cities and many americans left thier farms. people are just too stupid .
When I was a teenager in the early 1980's, I took on many jobs; mowing lawns, working at a grain store, delivering newspapers for money. In doing so, I learned much about work ethic; the value of money, and believing in myself. What I'm saying to the farmers and Americans, is that if the U.S. adults don't want those jobs, there must still be many teenagers that want to earn money by harvesting even! If not, then shame on Americans for being lazy or think that job is beneath them. With few people to harvest, Americans will see a rise in prices, or no food at all, as this woman in the video says they wasted 20 acres of food because there was no one to harvest it ! That's outrageous!!! Americans, in their arrogance, they will blame everyone else, except themselves.
Truly speaking so why can't they offer starving African to come and work we are willing to work but no access without job offer to get there
@@lydiat7636 Hi. I think I understand your question. It is a difficult question to answer, and I have no honest answer for you, other than the answer is about money.
Pay better or change to a less work intensive fruit or do all by yourself. Looks like the US labor market is empty, people can chose the job they want to work and it is not the cheap, hard work outside obviously.
@@lydiat7636
For the same reason that illegals are no allowed to work very simple answer😁
Thank you for your comment. Few people have the capacity to acknowledge the truth.
Farmers and construction workers keep prices down and there is a shortage of workers on both fields. Americans get ready for increasing prices of food and housing.
Don't forget trucking, etc...
Beats paying for illegals.
Typucal work of socialist agenda to have more control over food & get people to believe the illegals keep prices down. Liars! Prices have been steadily rising over a decade & packaging smaller, greedy from retail down to farmer. Propaganda!
@@jjjohnson8623 Is a proven fact that immigrants do the hard back breaking work, for a minimal wasge, in all kinds of extreme weather that Amercans don't want to do.
I'm certain you are clueless when it comes to labor and the huge need there is to fill positions that only immigrants are willing to do.
@@JorgeRamos-ix1jm Well illegal is illegal you want to work here Get legal not rocket science
but I see so many saying that the Mexican are taking their job so why so many farmers have no worker i don't understand that part I thought those talking that shit would be happy that they have jobs available
Mexicans are now in the construction business.
@Carl Laliberte had a Mexican show up at my farm looking for work. I happen to know he was making $20.00 an hour. ( mega-farm ) milking cows. I am a small farm I can't compete with that. And I was wondering why he left.
@@milmascaras3707 well seeing as how the corporate farms around here pay $20.00 an hour just to milk a cow. I would say that is better than working at McDonalds.
@@TheBushdoctor68 well liberals dont believe anything that does not fit their idiotoligy. You can believe what you want. And I wont change your mind. And it's not like I can show you pay stubs. So I dont care what you believe.
@Carl Laliberte Oh right, Mexicans are taking even the better paying jobs? That makes me wonder, what exactly are those better paying jobs that do not require any education or speaking proper English?
Pay people a living wage and you will find you will have all the workers you need. ..
These farmers make plenty of money they say when disaster hits they have lost millions but when it comes to paying I'm pretty sure it's only minimum wage or less
Not to mention the get government welfare in the form of subsidies.
you'd be correct. many are swindlers and criminals. but pretend to be respectable.
Unfortunately we've had this attitude in the US since the 50's that physical labor is beneath us. That's why we're in trouble now. Change the attitude and we won't have to import workers.
Yup. Just watch the panic when prices on food go up
Yes stop thinking that way ass hole.
You are dreaming 😏🙄
Nope lmao just start raising your kids the right way and teach em about hardwork instead of shoving a golden spoon up their mouth
@Chill Will Yeah now we only have to deal with fruits, vegetables, and meat that is 4x the price and a ton of former disgruntled government workers and all the fall-out from having those jobs cut just so you are less likely to see a brown guy walking on the sidewalk. Good going smart guy you really solved all our problems.
The farmer complaining stated that she depends on walk ins because she doesn't want to pay fair wages and housing costs for her labor, as it cuts into her profits. 😉🍻
No she didn't.
When do farmers paying for housing? She also didn't say what you said.
I think you fail to place yourself in that equation, unless you don't eat
@@carlosgarcia-jz3dq That comment makes no sense.
Thank you for your comment 🙏
They are criminals who depended on illegal labour to get their money. Now they may have to follow the law. Tough.
Now all you guys that wanted a job could have them. Get to it
Thank you for your comment. I think the slogan should be: Without FARMWORKERS there are no farms and thus no food. This biased report proves it.
@@christianz-jg2bh right.
Criminals? 😂😂😂😂
Well if you don't want to pay your workers then get out there an pick your fields your self like they did in the old days
Did you listen? Workers get over $14 an hour, Plus transportation, housing, etc. As a kid (young teenager) 40+ years ago in Washington State I picked strawberries. I wasn't good at it; in part because of a congenital back problem, so I didn't continue. However, I knew quite a few teens who stayed the whole picking season, and came out with quite a wad of money! If you want to eat, you need to support the farmers. There are so many "middle men" between them and us, farmers usually get the raw end of the deal.
@@jennywaldensi4868 Seriously? in many farms you get paid $12 the hour, no housing, no food and transportation run by the workers, they have to cooperate to pay rent
Which old days? Sorry white folds hardly ever done any labor they went from slaves, free labor, to now immigrants, illegal labor. Not being cynical just stating historical facts. Now when people are free and have options their left with the reality of knowing you need and now value that so called bottom feeder you call cheap labor.
Awww. So do. I. Stay. Or. Go back to my. Country?? I. Am. Confused
Your stupid!
How sad. She won’t be able to buy that new vacation home she wanted 😢
ain't that the truth .Never feel pity for a whining farmer
How sad you won't be able to eat.
@@libertyfive7241 Do you know where your food comes from?
@@aliciao.5731 : Everyone will pay more for their food
@@aliciao.5731 :You must be a silly bimbo
Bring tedd cruz and Marco Rubio and old the Cubans
Esos son buenos solo para bailar
Why dont bring the central americans ....seeking asylum...they are poor people looking for jobs
@@samirchavi5121 Believe me, you dont want central americans there... They are the africans of latin america.
@@ELViejito100 was ...sarcasm ......cause everybody knows that central americans just want to receive everything free
Lazy comunist cubans haha
Most local kids just want to drive equipment, not hands on work.
Canada brings in workers from Caribbean and Mexico thru a government agency, farmers apply for and guarantee work. They get the flight in and out. Housing, food and reasonable wage, and controlled hours. Some farmers have the same people coming back year after year... all lawful, all above board, the workers just want honest work and conditions. They go home to their families.
hopefully they get rid of all those endemic tropical parasites and diseases first.
This is hard work for such a little pay. It's like working in a cotton field, I know how hard it is because I work in a cotton field until I was twenty years old.
and many of my generation paid for college working harvests, traveling and following crops, living is tents they made it work a dirty word today
There is no way I would have disked my crop into the ground and lost $100,000 sometimes you and your workers have to work harder
Or pay more to loose less. Plenty of legal immigrants want to do those jobs.
Plenty of legal workers want to do that job? You really made me laugh 😂😂
@@elsieteenel303
I guess you never heard of legal immigrants?
Bernie says you should pay them $15 an hour maybe they would stay than
You make more money on piece rate if you are any good
Pay a decent wage, the workers will come.
I know right.... why would anyone in Washington work in the fields for 5 dollars and hour when they can get a janitors job for 12.50 hr. ???? tell Me ??
That will not happen. I heard that mant od the poultry processing plants were paying up to $18/hr. And even then and STILL, no American citizens wanted those jobs either. That us why it is being sent to China for processing.
Ok, then be ready to pay more for your groceries.
Come take this jobs and get on your knees Trump supporters!! This is your opportunity to make America great again!
Boxingfan1 L we have better jobs. If they raise their wages they’ll get workers. Are you arguing for companies hiring illegals?
@@HubertofLiege Fuck man! Lol. You trumpies are full of excuses. Fucking lazy bastards. 😂
Jayson Davis a lot of bs on this thread. All people want is for rules and laws to be followed. I don’t begrudge anyone that try’s to better themselves I have both legal and illegal friends. I follow the rules and when I don’t I pay and accept the consequences. That’s all we want. Trumps economy has been much better in everything but the ag industries, so people have jobs. I don’t hire illegals and will adjust my buying habits so farmers can hire legally. That means I may pay more or find a substitute product. To accuse Trump supporters of causing this problem or supporting it is ridiculous. Many foreign workers come on work visas which is great because it’s legal and controlled. They can work cheaper because their cost of living where they come from is less. I’ve traveled for work in my business and it’s the same thing on a smaller scale. To try to draw a parallel with slavery and Jim Crow is demagoguery and does nothing to advance or solve the problem. Many farmers I know routinely buy crop insurance and sell portions of their crop on futures to ensure the price. The women in this story is a large back yard farmer and may not have the experience yet. Polarizing the argument with lame comments doesn’t help.
Jayson Davis you couldn’t say it better🙂
I thought you commies were called workers,instead you grab welfare and food stamps and suck the life out of our country.
You have to pay more than minimum wage you cannot live off of minimum wage in Washington State you have to have two to three jobs if you were trying to live off of minimum wage
And what American do you think do you really!!! think are going to do minimum wage and just work more then one job???..........NONE! Lol
@@85crazytechlaz me I have to work three jobs just to support my family and pay the bills. I work two jobs during the week and one on the weekend. Just so I can put food in my baby's mouth and a roof over her head.
@@SCARED.PTSD.DAD... Damn.
Come to Texas.
Cost of living is low and right now we have plenty of work.
@@phillip_iv_planetking6354 work is not the issue, the pay is the issue and the cost of living is the issue. for instance i live in Ohio Dayton Ohio to be exact, i am searching for a apartment one bedroom apartment i am not looking for a pool, or club house i just want a decent apartment. I was turned down for one because i made to much money ( not section 8, but some sort of tax program the government implemented, for lower middle class and working class people) the second one i was turned down because i did not have a credit history, not because i did not make enough money because i do, but because i choose to buy things instead of putting them on credit. Then there is the issue of a one bedroom apartment costing $650.00 dollars or more. When the pay, does not cover housing, or housing is not geared towards singles or working people you have a huge problem.
@@mikeaskme3530 1bd apartment ONLY 650? Friend, in Ca a 1bd is 1500+.
Ahh its sad when you must pay a fair wage waaaaa waaaa
Lol shut up even if they paid yall fair wage yalls weak ass body couldn't handle the labor then sun the dirt lol cry babies
Even at highers wages than normal MAGA folk still won't do the work.
You got that right - but good workers don't want the wage - but instead a great piece rate so If you you are a hard worker you get compensated for it .
@@gorgechavez839
Your the moron that's OK with being payed next to nothing for a hard days work.
Sad when they cant afford it!!! They could pay yall whities 20 an hr but the hard work, the sun, heavy lifting, long hrs would kill yall!! Yall bitches would start demanding for more!
Every problem has a solution......if they pay those laborers working wages they should be able to find good help...
WELL? Where are the Unions demanding that they be paid Union Wages with full benefits? THEN.....Get ready to pay $7.00 for a head of lettuce, pound of tomatoes etc. On the bright side, Bubba, Clem, Buford, Shaquille, Trayvon and Le Roy will be doing farm labor instead of José, Juan or Pedro......RIGHT?
Increasing the pay will lead to increase in the price of produce. Plus higher wages does not guarantee the worker shortage will end. The work is actually very hard and back breaking.
@@user-ne8tm how hard is it to pick a piece of fruit off the vine...do you need a degree !???
@@user-ne8tm if its so back breaking then pay more money....duh!!!
@@juans6639... Jose Juan and Pedro probably get food stamps too...smh
All farmer's voted for Trump, what did you expect.
They deserve their misfortune.
But their WINNING that's why they are have this HUGE PROBLEM.
This been happen long before trump....dont you get'it
I think global Wars about to erupt. Trump is the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse the red horse.
@@eibarlopz4406 I tought Trump's job was to make it better, instead he made it worst!
E verify is the only way to go. "We pay above minimum wage." I dont believe you lady. You do the paperwork to withold taxes (money that you probably keep) Get out and pick your own crops. It's healthier.
Everyone who works in agriculture gets paid above minimum wage, 14 to 15 and 17 bucks an hour. Most anglos believe that Mexicans are working for less that is a stereotype. Mexico and Mexicans
are tired of the humiliations by the hypocrite protestants.
As a Texan, whites know that Agri work pays higher than most think, it's just idiotic Leftists that think all Farmers pay slave wages.
Not all Anglos are racist...
@@gustavobarajas6155 In oregon they paid less... $12 hours per hour, no food, no housing, no transportation, all that run by workers count.
In 1984, I picked cucumbers , tomatoes, grapes and onions. I was 14 year olds refugee! I worked on the farm every summer ! I made about $60 per day because I was a fast pickers! That’s how I was able to buy my school clothes and food.
"Above minimum wage" -- can't give a number?
I did a little farming in Texas after I retired. Could find no one to pick it. Ran an ad giving veggies to anyone willing to come pick it and ended up plowing 90% of it under. No more for me.
So, I didn't see her out in the fields picking them......
If she lacks applicants she isn't offering enough compensation (money) to be competitive.
She did not say what she was paying. I work on a farm. And I make better than minimum wage, plus good perks.
@@jimbascombe7707 true but are you willing to pay higher prices for food. Thats the major problem we all want cheap everything.
@@bandit4true I dont have to pay the higher prices. I have a two acre garden, I raise my own beef and pigs, and I have chickens.
@@jimbascombe7707 you are one of the lucky ones. Most of us dont have that luxury.
@@bandit4true find a small local farmer. Most of them will sell you a bull calf, or have a steer that is butchering size. And depending on where you are as to what the cost will be. Where I am you can buy a beef for .97 cents a pound. The processing is about .50 to .60 cents a pound cut and wrapped.
Time for national service! High school and college kids who don’t have a job for the summer report to your nearest farm !
Good luck on that one
up to the 50s and 60s we did! some people are just too good for it these days, too proud, too arrogant, too lazy. kids are playing video games or taking dope while living with mommy and daddy free of charge. prisoners once worked fields in the us; but crafty lawyers have made that illegal
They are too weak, lazy and entitled
Juana Iris Liranzo Rodrigues how’s your country doing pal?!
@@_dave4460 California is doing great full of entitled lazy people
Put the welfare offices next to the farm fields. Reinstate the old Jamestown rule. If you work, you eat! GlennFHoward
I work in agri fields, neither I nor my family get welfare.
Actually, the "old Jamestown rule" is in the Bible! It says in 2 Thessalonians 3:10: "...if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
Now that doesn't mean everyone is physically capable of doing all the same kind of work, but all should do something helpful and useful.
Bet you they called the human rights organizations accusing the Government from civil rights violations, welfare is one of the biggest mistakes we have here. When President Roosevelt sign it in law was to help the people for 2 years same with the Country Public Housing and now we have people from generations living with the tax payers money, more easy than work, and the SSA got draned day by day, now they have another way to live at the SSI expenses they disable the kids not matter if they are okay and many get more than a hard worker when he retired,
Sure, the politicians will then go on to lose their elections.
Sounds like Konzentration Camp. Arbeit macht frei and such.
Some are saying this nation was founded on the backs of slave labor.
She is complaining "The slaves won't show up anymore"
Well... a lot of people say that low paying jobs are for high school, and college students.... I guess we should get them to do this jobs. Right Trump supporters??
She doesn't want to pay US citizens she would have to meet minimum wage standards she's lying when she tells you what she's paying the illegals in all reality they work for about $4 an hour or they work by how much they pick
COME ON AMERICA TAKE BACK YOUR JOBS. Youth work program really. What about all those Welfare feed AMERICANS. GIVE THEM THE JOBS.
She could just pay more money.
Easier said than done.
Nobody wants to work for minimum wages in this kind of jobs any more.
They can say they pay above minimum wage if they offer just ten cents more. After everyone else takes from your paycheck you may have 70% of your gross left.
Agriculture need a steady stream of slave labor is what she was saying!
Put up a sign, pickers needed. Thats what the farmers used to do, but they paid every picker each day, for his work, we used to pick when we were young. They let kids pick too. Family's mostly.
Americans have been told how they do not want to work on farms until they really do not.
For years, people have screamed about higher education and not getting your hands dirty. We have done this to ourselves
Love it, and we are just getting started, I guess the U.S. never heard of the saying "never bite the hand that feeds you" Americans are in for a big awakening, it's all karma.
Where are the workers? Where the pay better. Period. Stupid question.
Mad fishy when they asked her what she pays and she said above minimum wage and “it depends what you do”
@Blackmanonafence :The workers should get paid 5 silver quarters an hour .Meltdown value - at least $16 in devalued FRNs
Where they pay better? You mean desk jobs? Just don't complain when the price of food goes up, kid.
@@cat11112222 : The best way is through piecework as long as the piece rate is high enough . So if the going rate for apples is $25 a bin if you can pick 10 bins a day you would make $250
Why Trump voters not doing the job that is left by the hard worker got deported
People are kept saying that they don't have a jobs so now jobs are available
American will feel of lack of skilled labors all over usa without skilled labor thoes jobs will never be filled Arriba Mexico no se dejen raza y para toda la raza que sabe la chinga del jale mi respectos damas y seniores dios nunca los va abandonar nunca
we all like to work and not have enough money to survive on.that is what working in the fields is
Did you really think a great businessman who bankrupted a casino would be able to run the economy of a nation?
He creates chaos and harvests the aftermath.
He is the most self centered person alive.
Not only bk the casino but 6 plus times bk
@@longdo41ldgcl 6 times he filed corporate bankruptcy.
Reaching out to youth programs for workers?! That's a good one. I can just picture a young kid on his or her phone sitting in the field texting their friends when they should be working. The employer would be lucky if that kid lasted a full day at that back breaking work.
And the adults requesting air.conditioner.
where the white people that said were taking there jobs 😂viva mexico🇲🇽
chari blomquist Mexico is North America too , don’t be ignorant .
@@israelsaldivar8792 What did I say that makes you think I dont know Mexico is South America. Now you the stupid one
Jose Rodriguez I know right lol dumb ass people
chari blomquist no he’s right little kid go to the farm and work see how long you ass in the field?.......ASS FACE! lol smh
@@chariblomquist
He said Mexico is North America TOO. Look at a map. Read a book. Or just f ing google it. Mexico is part of North America. Mexicans are North Americans.
They’re all hiding from the gustapo
Daniel Quinn gestapo - and locked in cages
those gustapos are bad, yup.
I work as a Agricultural Research assist. I 'll be happy to work there along with my family and friends. The only problems is that we are in the Marshalls Islands but are eligible to work in the US visa free.
They are such liars. She said minimum wages she's a liar and i hope she loses everything.
Minimum wage in Washington is 12.50 !!! that's why they want Illegals.... :(
brutal
Easy to say when you sit on your ass all day picking your nose.
Americans want to build a machine for everything why don't they build a machine to pick their crops?
Ben dover ever heard of a harvester? we’ve had them for decades. they cost upward of $200k...
America do have harvest machine , but people do a better job harvesting than a machine..
Why don't they pay a living wage? Aren't these farmers being greedy? With all the Democrats around there, I'm surprised they haven't brought back slave labor.
Ohhhhh! Now I get it.
Ken Wells I don’t understand why you think that Democrats are greedy when the minimum wages are higher in Democrats run states compare to the ones run by republicans.
Allow those who collect unemployment money and welfare recipients to work in the fields and keep their income from it up to a certain amount for taxes
Exactly!!! I dont get it why they dont do it...
Because other employers offer other incentives healthcare retirement 401 k farmers don’t pay payroll taxes the migrants are self employed so no taxes are withheld no healthcare no 401 k etc no extra expenses like unemployment benefits that cuts into their profit they don’t want that type of worker
@@sahaiel Because that is a tried and tested method for politicians to lose elections.
Im latino from a farming comunity back in my native Panama...her face toutch my hart...she seem to genuine to consern about not been able to protect the future its really sad....
This lady should be ashamed. She should be doing the work of she can't get people to do it.
Uh...how about both of them stop walking through the fields and start harvesting!!!!
Don't build a business that requires illegal labor. Problem solved
Right that way we can all plant and harvest our own vegetables!!
@@titomish5914 We don't need replacement migration in order to have cheaper vegetables. What a selfish way to think.
Don't eat anymore vegetables
You fool, its not about the business, is about food, lets think for a moment every one thinks the same way you do, so every goes a different route, then what are we going to eat? No everyone has the option to harvest their own food, think about it, we will have people willing to kill for food
@@tanst99fl oh we dont, are you going to go out there and pick it, and legal immigrants are not going to do it and why would they when the jobs are often in rural towns where they may experience the most racism, are you willing to subject yourself to that, i dont think so.
You voted for trump what do you expect?
Send anyone on welfair that can work to the fields. It's a good feeling to earn the money you get.
thoughts and prayers for the farming industry.
it shouldn't be an industry, most people should go back to family farms. 95% of americans used to live on our own farms. now it's only 5% or less. but our cities are now overrun with mass immigratiotion. and most americans abandoned the farm life. like idiots. Now people with worms, diseases, e coli and tropical parasites pick our food.
MacDonald's pays $14 an hour in an air condition building, why won't you pick my crops in the hot sun for $11 an hour ? ? ?
Economics 101 if they pay higher wages they will simply pass that to the consumers. Then everything else goes up so your pay increase won't be enough. Is not as easy as a pay increase.
they could pay 30$ an hour , few Americans will even think about it..its not about the pay its about the attitude it takes to do back breaking work and america is soft.We no longer have our grandparents attitude that any job is better then no job.
Allow seasonal emigration and pay for return air ticket.
Or, call to all those people who cry every single day because Mexicans take their jobs, they should be first
sooo....temp labor is hard to find? we did our own work....
the homeless will do the job if they get a fair pay.
Yeah the drug addicts , rapists thieves etc they will also good job.
These are jobs our youth should be looking to take. They mostly know nothing except to say they want this or that...now . About time the youth get back to knowing from where their food comes. How it gets there. What real work is. These are great jobs for youth except they consider themselves 'above that sort of work'...thinking they are above that sort of labor....snotty brats...People over 50 were working in ag as kids. But the DEMs pull that away even from family farms. People are not learning how to feed themselves. I love the culling process....
That's right! I'm in my 60's and my first job was at age three and a half, gathering chicken eggs & laying down clean straw for the rancher who's land we lived on. I got paid in eggs, but that kept me, my mom, and my sister from starving.
Between then & age twelve, I washed dishes at school so my sister & I could eat lunch & I could buy our school supplies. I cleaned houses, & washed windows at a gas station on the way home from school so my mother could put gas in the car. Eventually, I started my own laundry/ironing/mending business in junior high & high school during the school months, & also did babysitting nights & weekends.
During the summer's, I picked fruits & vegetables on farms, did my laundry/ sewing business, & babysitting.
Kids these days, don't have a clue about hard work. But some of that is the result of over-regulation & zoning laws. Kids today can't even put up a lemonade stand, mow lawns, or work a newspaper route because of too many stupid laws.
It's not so easy for kids to be entrepreneurs, or find jobs to do, and many parents nowadays don't require their kids to do any work around the house either.
So those here claiming that White Americans have always been lazy, or don't want to work, or that this country was built on the backs of minorities, are either racist, bigoted, or lived privileged lives & haven't got a clue.
My Irish-Scot ancestors were enslaved & brought to these shores to labor under harsh conditions, as were many White people. Blacks, do not have the corner on slavery. Slavery has been a part of every culture down through the ages. Kamala Harris' G-Grandfather, bought, owned & sold White Irish-Scots on his Jamaican plantations. He was a key figure in starting that whole trade.
My family has always worked hard, so no one can tell me that White Americans don't want to work. Granted, many young people today don't know what real hard work is, but there are lazy people in all races.
As others have said here, farmers stopped hiring American workers in favor of immigrant workers willing to work for cheap wages. The farmers created this situation. When I picked on the farms as a teen, I didn't even think about what I was getting paid, I was just glad to have a job & we didn't complain about such things back then. Now, it's impossible for a teen to get a job picking produce on a farm.
It's odd to me that, as you heard the man say, it's considered skilled labor, so not just anybody can expect to be hired. I don't know how picking fruit could be any more complicated than it was in the 50's & 60's, but it shouldn't take much to train somebody to do the work.
I still go to local farms to pick my own produce, and they simply tell you what the rules are & let you go pick. It's not rocket science, but I certainly agree that anyone doing the job, should be paid a fair wage. Today, it isn't just about working long hours in the hot sun; it's also being exposed to harmful chemicals, and having to pay for housing. When I worked the fields, the Mexican workers mostly slept in their vehicles or make shift shanties. Nowadays, that's illegal, so they need to be paid enough of a living wage to compensate for those things.
It appears though, that the farmers have gotten themselves into a Catch-22. I do think there's something amiss if you can't find people to pick your fields. Seems like a crime to plow under a field, when you could put out a local advertisement for people to come pick their own and at least not waste good food. There's plenty of people who love to do that. Many farmers in my state offer this as a regular practice, and find it very lucrative. It's at least a temporary solution to consider.
My suspicion though, is that the farmer is paid more in government subsidies to plow the field under, than they would make with a bit more effort to find workers to pick it.
Not being willing to pay a fair wage is their own doing, and it looks as though change is coming; one that will require some painful decisions. As someone else mentioned, these farmers might want to consult the Amish about this one. They have never hired immigrants to work their fields.
I can honestly say you farmers got what you have been asking for , most farmers that I know are hard core conservatives and with one hand you guys have been hiring all the help you can get and with the other hand you are pushing as hard as you can to prevent people from coming and take your jobs away!! So you can not have it both ways , instead be happy with what you have been asking for ! Maybe you guys can go and recruit some of the people from the streets of Seattle and Portland
What?
I will do it for $30 an hour
It's good they can make money somewhere. Thank all the good people in the world.
They would rather take out 100k worth of zucchini rather then up the pay for workers. Just over minimum wage?
You need to actually pay decent wages.
Very informative. It is so helpful to see these issues from another angle.
Washington needs farm workers while the city of Freeatle has 5000 pr more people living on the streets, I see a simple solution to both problems.
Instead of paying for housing, food and travel for H2-A visa workers, you could theoretically pay a higher competitive wage. How much could you pay domestic workers by taking out that other expenses?
where are the asylum seekers about use them in to they have an answer about there case....
The us only accepts about a million asylum-seekers a year you think that's enough to send them all over the United States farmlands? I love how you dance around the issue pretending that's not there
Extreme pride and self-confidence are the demise of the USA.
farmers are the backbone of any revolution its best to get behind them this is a situation that must be amended this is situation critical think about it
Dollar on haur. And nobody won't work. I am in shock
America will depend on overseas fruit and vegetables
James Murphy I grow my own
Yeah that's why they got special green cards for Farm Workers they don't Deport them this lady is a liar she just doesn't want to pay $10 an hour to Harvester
All living in Seattle government housing, with safe drug zones, free pass at shoplifting, defunding cops, no jail time for repeat offenders, what could be better for all America to move to Seattle!
Get out there and pick it yourself!!!!
Send those who collect unemployment money
A big problem is that we have gutted the agri-culture. Seasonal help, which used to be available, simply is no longer. The folks who used to be farm-based, are now working 9-5 in the cities. Most of the kids are in public schools and also have no schedule flexibility to help out. It's been a struggle for us in our springtime maple syrup operation; very hard to find help, domestic or otherwise, in late winter/early spring.
Am willing to work from aafrica(Cameroon)
The kids need to be in school.
we shouldn't have transitioned into a city nation. used to be 95% of americans lived on thier farms ! outrageous that only 5% or less do now. all these people not growing any of thier own food and the farming industry took over our food supply. VERY bad. and if you hire foreign people from down south, you are hiring people with tropical parasites and disease germs, especially t he illegals who were never examined by a Dr when coming in to the country. Nor treated for anything. Actually the American Deep South as well has same problem. Tropical worms etc brought from africa hundreds of years ago, now still living inthe descendants and the SOIL ITSELF down thre. And usually don't knowit. Huge problem needing attention.
This is a typical example of cutting ones nose to spite the face.
Thanks you President Trump for scaring every immigrant away. Great job done, you and your "wise advisors' are FIRED!
I'm so sorry for the loss of the crops. What people need to realize is farmers feed us, without them we have no food. But it's going to get a lot worse.
We need slaves
FarmWORKERS feed us.
Pay proper American wages not migrant wages then you'll get your product picked, boo hoo.
It's time for the US government take the inmates out to the farms and do them earn the food they consume and make them a productive force, no just wasting their time in jail.
Well said... Very right you are.
If this is a 7 billion dollar business why aren't the wages higher .
I fail to understand why the farms couldn't donate the vegetables to charities and have volunteers harvest the crops that they instead ploughed under. The farmers could record the value of their loss and likely be able to claim this amount in taxes. Surely there must be a way to claim this type of thing on your taxes. Besides, harvesting is hard back breaking work and the only people who seem to work as hard as the migrant workers are volunteers.
There isn't ANYONE to harvest them.
Pretty soon if you don't know how to garden?
Only the elite will be eating fruits and vegetables.
Maybe trump should start recruiting his beloved white people from Norway to come and work in the farms,unfortunately I don't think they will ever want to do the back breaking farm jobs of for instance picking strawberries🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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# One , she said she pays above minimum wage WHAT THE F%^& IS THAT ???!!! 2 cents ?!
# Two , BIG AG is getting MOST of the BAILOUT $$$ for farms' losses
# Three , Farmers WILL NOT HIRE U.S. CITIZENS - I know because I wanted to work on a farm this summer and
tried several states INCLUDING FOUR on the west coast and some on the east coast