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QUESTION:I spent a half hour talking to a guy who was looking through
the employment adds in the local daily dead fish guts wrapper.
I ask him what kind of a job he was for.
It turns out that he was a heavy equipment operator and the
influx of illegal has impacted that field. A lot of the
heavy equipment operators in Oregon are illegal mexicans
who will drive Cats, back hoes, loaders, etc at about half
of what a US citizen will take.. That's 10 to 12 bucks an
hour verses 22-25 an hour.
Also this business of Mexican trucks on the United States
roads is not a good Idea. It seems that the long haul
truck companies are planning on replacing there U.S citizen
drivers with Mexican drivers who will cost about 1/3 as much.
Folks NAFA and WTO is going to kill us. Tell me that a truck
driven by a mexican who can neither read or write english is
safer than a truck driven by somebody that know what the word
stop means.
ANSWER: That is something that I just cannot figure out.
I have applied numerous times for this type of work.
Always would have gladly taken $8 - $10 an hour to set in a cab and drive a
machine instead of taking the same pay for being out in all types of weather
busting my ass as labor. Not one time have I gotten that job.
How is it that illegal Mexicans are getting them?
There is a chicken plant in Sylome Springs, AR that I once worked at that would
not ever pay more then $6 an hour, no matter how hard you worked. Now they are
paying Mexicans $10 an hour and there production has not increased by even one
bird over when I worked there.
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