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Spain’s Harvest might end up Un-Harvested!

Started by Ryan Opaz · 9 months ago

Last year, Tom Wark wrote an interesting piece on immigration and the serious shortage of day laborers in the Sonoma Valley. The projected implication of the shortage being that both food and wine prices would significantly rise.
Now, the great fear of immigration and the continual mind-bo ... Continue reading »

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  • David J Rodriguez

    1 year ago

    Legality, shmegality-- the point is to have a frightened & docile labor pool available who will work at miserly salaries in exchange for the very real advantages of clean, drinkable running water & warm, safe (if all-too-often overcrowded) shelter and a shot at the dream of a consumer lifestyle.




    Market 'inefficiencies' & government policy will sometimes intersect increasingly volatile nature in absurd, possibly devastating ways: visiting Steele winery in Lake County last year, there were flystrips hanging like curtains all over the place--





    with the migrant labor shortage & a late grape harvest paying better salaries, 90% of the pear harvest went unpicked and was rotting on the ground...
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  • David J Rodriguez

    1 year ago

    Legality, shmegality-- the point is to have a frightened & docile labor pool available who will work at miserly salaries in exchange for the very real advantages of clean, drinkable running water & warm, safe (if all-too-often overcrowded) shelter and a shot at the dream of a consumer lifestyle.
    Market 'inefficiencies' & government policy will sometimes intersect increasingly volatile nature in absurd, possibly devastating ways: visiting Steele winery in Lake County last year, there were flystrips hanging like curtains all over the place--
    with the migrant labor shortage & a late grape harvest paying better salaries, 90% of the pear harvest went unpicked and was rotting on the ground...
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  • Gabriella

    1 year ago

    To your point, last month I had read an article that spoke of a worker who had died from an elevator falling on him during the construction of a building in Madrid. The case opened up an enormous scandal because they found dozens of workers sleeping in the half built building with limited food and water. What made the case interesting was that they were legal immigrants hired by the government.


    It's a pity and I can only hope that this will change.
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  • Gabriella

    1 year ago

    To clarify, when I say "hired" I meant that in the loosest sense of the word.
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  • Gabriella

    1 year ago

    To your point, last month I had read an article that spoke of a worker who had died from an elevator falling on him during the construction of a building in Madrid. The case opened up an enormous scandal because they found dozens of workers sleeping in the half built building with limited food and water. What made the case interesting was that they were legal immigrants hired by the government.

    It's a pity and I can only hope that this will change.
    reply
  • Gabriella

    1 year ago

    To clarify, when I say "hired" I meant that in the loosest sense of the word.
    reply
  • karol

    1 year ago

    Do you know any orange or tangerines picking jobs in a near future?


    Thank you for reply.
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  • karol

    1 year ago

    Do you know any orange or tangerines picking jobs in a near future?

    Thank you for reply.
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