If farmers and construction companies were forced to pay the same minimum wage to their immigrant labor force, this would get fixed. They won’t, so the underground labor market will grow.
Union wages are fixed at an amount above the minimum wage so it looks like the union folks are in for a $2.50 raise they don’t have to negotiate for.
The union thugs here in WA get a cost of living raise given to them each year after a state initiative pegged the M W to inflation.
exactly. I know most of the Iranian jews in the downtown fabric district employs cash only illegals’. But there won’t be escaping the restaurants, bars etc where minimum wage is set.