WHY?! Isn’t there enough high school and college kids getting out of school to fill these jobs?! We do not need any foreign workers! What a disgraceful sell-out. And, worse, on President Trump’s watch.
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink
You can provide a kid a job but you can’t make him work
I detest H1B's, but I think H2B's are a different animal.
To specifically answer your question, in seasonal resorts, there aren't enough local high school kids to fill all the jobs. They do fill some, but there just aren't enough local kids. That's here on Cape Cod, where the population tends to be older, the local kids somewhat fewer. Moreover, the seasonal tourist population is several times the local population between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Now, an interesting question might be, "why isn't there an organized program to make it easier for American kids to apply and travel to where the summer jobs are?" But, there isn't.
Americans, even FReepers have no clue what is going on out in the sticks. That is where many immigrant families are migrating to. Cheaper, unskilled labor, and less regulation for their own start-up businesses.
Billionaires don’t want to pay above $30k these years. More money for the upper management. Why can’t the top dogs be farmed out to India?
A VP at IBM once urged white Americans to move to India. He said they’d be paid less than in America but their $$$ would go farther.
Tired of them pissing on the tech sector, keeping 50 year olds at ancient wages working for contracting firms and telling us it’s raining.
Too much at the top.
I don’t care that someone earns a billion but damn right I will fight back when they lie to Congress and say that nobody here is qualified while they suppress wages. They have done a lot of damage to white collar degreed professional jobs.
America first, huh?? Lol nary a word from the top either.crony corporatism and tax dodging.. putting American citizens dead last.
I looked into this, and the problem seems to be just what you recommend, high school and college kids - they will not work like the poor: Plus certain unions. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3655072/posts
Eddie Devine voted for President Donald Trump because he thought he would be good for American business. Now, he says, the Trump administration’s restrictions on seasonal foreign labor may put him out of business.
Devine says it has been years since he could find enough dependable, drug-free American workers for his $12-an-hour jobs mowing and tending landscapes for cemeteries, shopping centers and apartment complexes across Central Kentucky...
Importing these workers for a few months cost him an additional $18,000 in fees and expenses beyond their wages, which must be the same as he pays American workers. But that’s the only way he could serve his customers. ..These workers aren’t immigrants, and there is no path to U.S. citizenship. When their seasonal work is done, they return home...Trump’s properties in Florida and New York have used 144 H-2B workers since 2016.
>Crab crisis: Maryland seafood industry loses 40 percent of work force in visa lottery [The same number are available, but] Trump administration for the first time awarded them this year in a lottery, instead of on a first-come, first-served basis..
>Harris, a Republican who represents the Eastern Shore, said he is working with the administration to find a way to raise the visa cap further, or to allow crab pickers to work under an agricultural visa program that isn’t limited. He said efforts to revise the H-2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups [read UNION], which have argued that companies don’t try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-crab-visa-shortage-20180502-story.html
Recruiters have been complaining...no qualified people, can’t pass drug tests and whiney snowflakes. We need skilled people to expand