Trump Threats, Minimum Wage, Overtime Hitting California Farmers Hard
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The San Joaquin Farm Bureau says California’s minimum wage going up to $15 an hour and regulations on farmworker overtime are making things even more difficult.
“Really nothing seems to work when you raise your wages, the guy next door raises his—just keeps going up,” he said.
These two statements don't add up. If you're raising your wages to compete with the farm next door, then you're fighting the open market for labor, and that's the way it's supposed to be. Minimum wage isn't impacting this.
“What can we do in California? We can stop writing laws like ag worker overtime. Farming is not a 9-to-5 job. Farmers aren’t giving the seventh-day work anymore, cause they can’t they afford that overhead and margin,” said Mathis.
Now this statement makes sense, this would impact costs.
“Young people growing up in rural Mexico are getting more education that gives them a ticket to higher paying jobs that demand more skills and provide them with more stable employment than they would get in agriculture. This is a case in which what is good news for Mexico, is bad news for CA farm work,” said Taylor.
Oh, so now even the Mexicans don't want to do farmwork? But I thought that one of the crucial reason we allowed illegal immigration?
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The San Joaquin Farm Bureau says California’s minimum wage going up to $15 an hour and regulations on farmworker overtime are making things even more difficult.
“Really nothing seems to work when you raise your wages, the guy next door raises his—just keeps going up,” he said.
These two statements don't add up. If you're raising your wages to compete with the farm next door, then you're fighting the open market for labor, and that's the way it's supposed to be. Minimum wage isn't impacting this.
“What can we do in California? We can stop writing laws like ag worker overtime. Farming is not a 9-to-5 job. Farmers aren’t giving the seventh-day work anymore, cause they can’t they afford that overhead and margin,” said Mathis.
Now this statement makes sense, this would impact costs.
“Young people growing up in rural Mexico are getting more education that gives them a ticket to higher paying jobs that demand more skills and provide them with more stable employment than they would get in agriculture. This is a case in which what is good news for Mexico, is bad news for CA farm work,” said Taylor.
Oh, so now even the Mexicans don't want to do farmwork? But I thought that one of the crucial reason we allowed illegal immigration?