Few would work for a dirty and tiring job for minimum wages and no benefits. This leads to a shortage of labor when the immigrants were driven out by laws. What was intended as a beneficial law backfired and the industry faces big challenges ahead.
The Governor, Bentley, would have to be responsible for these if he wants to stay where he is. His ex-employees joined an exodus of thousands of immigrant field hands, hotel housekeepers, dishwashers, chicken plant employees, and construction workers who have fled Alabama for other states. Like Rhodes, many employers who lost workers followed federal requirements—some even used the E-Verify system—and only found out their workers were illegal when they disappeared.
In their wake are thousands of vacant positions and hundreds of angry business owners staring at unpicked tomatoes, uncleaned fish, and unmade beds. In Alabama, some , people are out of work. In rural Perry County, where Harvest Select is located, the unemployment rate is One of the big selling points of the immigration law was that it would free up jobs that Republican Governor Robert Bentley said immigrants had stolen from recession-battered Americans. Yet native Alabamians have not come running to fill these newly liberated positions.
Many employers think the law is ludicrous and fought to stop it. At a moment when the country is relentless focused on unemployment, there are still jobs that often go unfilled. All summer long I worked split shifts from 6 to 10 in the morning, and then again from 3 to 7 at night. The crossroads for me was our back dock behind the supermarket, where all produce deliveries were made daily. Our large and offensively snarky produce manager haggled, purchased and rejected the orders delivered to that back dock.
Usually it was the local farmers who delivered their goods, but sometimes it was the illegal and legal foremen who delivered the produce orders. What I learned from the latter were the crappy working conditions out in the fields for very little pay.
You may have read about it and the back-breaking jobs that were supposed to be freed up for legal Americans are just not being filled.
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