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Tomatoes are actually a good case study for wage increases. The last time we had a serious effort to curb illegal immigration we got the usual "crops rotting i
by gozur88 10y ago
Tomatoes are actually a good case study for wage increases. The last time we had a serious effort to curb illegal immigration we got the usual "crops rotting in the fields" rhetoric from growers, but somehow they lost the political argument. Wages went up due to the resultant labor scarcity.
So growers introduced Roma tomatoes, which are not labor intensive because they can be machine harvested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EpFTyN26E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EpFTyN26E
- prostoalex 10y agoThe growers still managed to squeeze in a bunch of exemptions from the minimum wage law https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs12.htm https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs12.htm