Posted by wkfarmall on May 07, 2009 at 22:51:57 from (193.18.92.131):
A couple of weeks ago there was a story on our local news about migrant farm workers and swine flu. The farmer they interviewed(of which I personally know) stated that he would have to scale back on his crops because of a delay in the migrant workers. I have raised or worked in tobacco for app. 18 years. There was a group of us who went around working for various farmers. We were typically paid between 6 and 8 dollars per hour. We worked hard with an occasional deadbeat. The farmers we worked for always appreciated our work and bragged on us every chance they got. Now all the sudden an american farmer can't grow a crop without a migrant worker, says they advertise the jobs for 45 days before hiring a migrant(where?),and they also say they pay these migrants 12 to 14 Dollars an hour with health insurance. I love working farm work but had to go elsewhere because these local farmers could not provide benefits or pay more than $10/hr. It really gripes me that they will not hire some of the millions of unemployed people just because they were let down by a couple of migrant workers.
I am just assuming that many of you came from farms also and would consider yourselves hard working an dependable, and if so how many of you would love to make $14/hr with health insurance provided doing what you love. I do not believe that an american farmer would say that americans are not capable of farm work.
Please go to www.wpsdlocal6.com and scroll down to site comments in the left column to read what people are saying about "Flu creates longer delay for farmers and migrant workers". Please post comments and let me know what you think about this. This whole subject really ticks me off.
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