Stephen Colbert and the president of United Farmworkers of America are challenging unemployed Americans and anti-immigrant folks to take the jobs often done by undocumented immigrants.
Farmworkers are tired of being blamed by politicians and anti-immigrant activists for taking work that should go to Americans and dragging down the economy, said Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farmworkers of America.
So the group is encouraging the unemployed — and any Washington pundits or anti-immigrant activists who want to join them — to apply for some of thousands of agricultural jobs being posted with state agencies as harvest season begins.
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This article appears in Jul 1-7, 2010.
That is “Just Plain Dumb / News.”
Greedy farmers, stores & middlemen could easily pay pickers more $$$. I picked apples in Chelan, Washington. $7/bin, each bin was 4x4x3-feet & musta weighed half-a-ton. I could pick 4-bins/day. Others could pick twice that much.
Back then (about 28-years ago), illegals were taking the jobs from us hippies.
Remember when farmworkers struck against Taco Bell, they raised the price for tomatoes a penny/pound and paid the workers much more.
Instead, the Plutocrats would rather pay slave wages and hire illegal slaves.