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If there was a true shortage of Americans to do construction and other blue-collared jobs then why hasn't our government created visas for those jobs to allow legal foreigners to do those jobs? Crickets........ Under no circumstances is there any justification for allowing illegal aliens to work in our country.
I don't know what part of the world you live in but here in So. Calif. illegal aliens have taken over those construction jobs by working for less and that's true of many parts of the U.S. Is that ok with you? Fair wages are what was being paid for jobs prior to the illegal invasion of our country with raises from time to time to reflect the cost of living. If a worker wasn't valuable then they would be fired. Just because illegal aliens seem to work their butts off including accepting abuse out of fear of being deported doesn't make them superior workers per se.
Unless he moved, he lives in SE Arizona (Cochise County, IIRC).
“The aging existing workforce, which took an enormous hit during the Great Recession with people losing jobs, in some cases leaving the industry and not wanting to come back, means that we really have this large deficit of skilled labor,” Dietz said.
Then, there are the millennials, who are becoming more and more college-educated.
Of course he knew. It’s 100% his organization. Like he still knows that even today the trump organization continues to employ illegals. Stop making excuses for me him.
If he knew then why wasn't he prosecuted for it? You actually think that rich people who own several businesses know what's going on at the bottom? They hire people for that. Prove that there are still illegals working on his properties and with his knowledge.....I'll wait! Can't prove it then STHU! As I said he uses e-verify on all of his properties. Why would I need to make excuses for someone who hasn't even been accused or convicted of a crime?
Dont know where you live, but even the trash companies in the DC region can't find enough drivers. It's a mess.
Many have left for better jobs in construction. And some in construction have moved into other industries.
It's a hot economy.
Been to Nashville lately?
Still no excuse to hire illegal aliens and that's the point!
If he knew then why wasn't he prosecuted for it? You actually think that rich people who own several businesses know what's going on at the bottom? They hire people for that. Prove that there are still illegals working on his properties and with his knowledge.....I'll wait! Can't prove it then STHU! As I said he uses e-verify on all of his properties. Why would I need to make excuses for someone who hasn't even been accused or convicted of a crime?
Probably because people are rarely prosecuted for it.
A quick google search supports my statement. Do your own leg work.
Are these the attributes of a brilliant businessman?
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The labor shortage, specifically in the residential construction side, has been kind of a uniquely post-Great Recession experience,” Rob Dietz, Chief Economist at the National Association of Home Builders, told Yahoo Finance.
Under Obama the unemployment rate fell from 9.9% to 4.7% (a decrease of 5.2%)
Under Trump the unemployment rate fell from 4.1% to 3.7% (a decrease of 0.4%)
But Trump and his supporters have declared Trump to be the job creation savior and king.
During Obama's time in office the stock market rose from 6,547 to 19,762 (a increase of 13,215 points.)
During Trumps time in office the stock market rose from 19,762 to 27,000 (a increase of 7,238 points.)
And Trump and his supporters have declared Donald Trump the stock market savior and king.
January 29, 2016 - AMES, Iowa — Unlike the indoor basketball court, foosball tables or fireside lounge at Workiva’s sprawling campus here, the oversize green prize wheel centered among a hive of work stations is not meant for break times.
Only employees who refer new hires get a chance to spin it and win up to $2,500.
“Thirty percent of our recruiting comes from that wheel,” said Matthew M. Rizai, chief executive of Workiva, a cloud-based software firm. The hunt for workers is unrelenting, he said. “We always have openings.”
June 21, 2016 - How hard can it be to stop at the driveway once a week and take away the trash?
Dang hard when you can’t find a driver for the truck. And this is where two of the largest refuse disposal companies in the Kansas City area find themselves.
Deffenbaugh Industries and Town & Country Disposal each cite a shortage of qualified drivers for widespread and continuing service misses in multiple communities on both sides of the state line stretching back to last fall. Each company also says it’s doing all it can to fill empty truck cabs.
June 24, 2016 - GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Another restaurant in the Green Bay area is closing its doors next week. Red Restaurant, on Broadway, in downtown Green Bay is telling its customers to redeem their gift certificates by July 1.
Victoria’s Italian Cuisine on Green Bay’s east side closed earlier this month.
We find out it’s for the same reason.
“We’re in the middle of not just a skills shortage, but in the beginning of a really serious worker shortage,” says Jim Golembeski, Bay Area Workforce Development Board Executive Director.
The owner of Red said she didn’t even have time to talk to us, because she had no one else working at the time. Other restaurants say they’re having a similar problem.
Jul 20 2015 - U.S. employers are finding it increasingly difficult to find skilled workers, according to a survey published on Monday, suggesting upward pressure on wage growth down the road.
The National Association for Business Economics’ latest business conditions survey found that 35 percent of the 112 economists who participated reported their firms had seen shortages of skilled labor during the quarter ending in July.
And since the OP was bragging about the construction industry, guess what industry had a labor shortage in 2015?
17 Nov 2015 - One would think that after millions of layoffs during the Great Recession that there would be plenty of workers available to meet the growing demand for construction. But the opposite is true.
The industry is facing a shortage of available workers at a time when construction demand is exploding. The number of unemployed construction workers is at a 14-year low, according to federal employment data released by the Associated General Contractors of America. Construction employment expanded in 249 of our 358 metro areas, between March 2014 and March 2015. The AGC also reported that 83 percent of contractors are struggling to find enough qualified skilled labor.
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