• MEDIA: Axios: Trump's Migration Reforms Created 'Worker Shortage'

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 27 01:19:06 2021
    Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see Neil Munro
    on whether Donald Trump regrets taking Jared Kushner's advice to
    downplay the National Question on the campaign trail against Joe Biden
    and Kamala Harris: <URL:https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/06/18/axios-trumps-migration-reforms-created-worker-shortages/>
    | But the Axios site was careful not to mention the subsequent
    | pressure on CEOs to recruit American workers with fair-market offers
    | of higher wages.
    |
    | On June 10, for example, the Washington Post reported comments from
    | Patrick Whalen, a co-owner of five restaurants in Charleston and
    | Charlotte, North Carolina, who has long benefited from a bubble of
    | cheap imported labor:
    |
    || After one of his managers told him that a line cook needed to
    || borrow money to get groceries, Whalen was moved to reconsider wages
    || at the company.
    ||
    || "It was just one of those moments where you just kind of stop
    || and you say, 'Is there a real problem in our industry?'" he said.
    || "We always kind of knew it was there, but we didn't really know what
    || to do with it."
    ||
    || The company raised the starting wage for all of its staff to $15
    || an hour, up from $12 to $13. And it created a "tip the kitchen"
    || program, adding a second line to table checks for gratuity for the
    || back-of-the-house staff, which the restaurant matches up to $500 per
    || night. That move has increased wages for non-tipped employees such
    || as line cooks and dishwashers to an average of $23.80 an hour,
    || Whalen said.
    |
    | Axios is part-owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, who also funds pro-
    | migration advocacy groups.

    Tim Cook's history of applications for scab worker import quotas: <URL:http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Apple/40571.htm>

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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