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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] DaveFuckinMorgan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What is it, do you guys want higher wages and worker protections? Or undocumented immigrants? Pick one.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You could simply document the immigrants and incorporate them into large labor coalitions auctioning their work at market rates.

Instead, we have a system of paying workers under-the-table at below market rates, while using their illegal status as leverage to prevent them from negotiating for better pay.

So you need a legal system for migration before you can get higher wages and worker protections. Otherwise, you'll always have a reserve army of scabs in the form of undocumented residents.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

This is by design

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago

Don't migrants tend to get exploited and end up doing the crap jobs that nobody else is willing to do but need to be done anyway?

[–] chem_bpy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I just find humor in the hypocrisy of Republicans. Especially when it inevitably backfires on them.