How this garlic farm went from a labor shortage to over 150 people on its applicant waitlist

[Wyatt earp]

I will never get why the left always says there is jobs Americans refuse to do....they are retarded if you pay a high enough wage......




How this garlic farm went from a labor shortage to over 150 people on its applicant waitlist


Christopher Ranch, which grows garlic on 5,000 acres in Gilroy, Calif., announced recently that it would hike pay for farmworkers from $11 an hour to $13 hour this year, or 18%, and then to $15 in 2018. That’s four years earlier than what’s required by California’s schedule for minimum wage increases.

Ken Christopher, vice president at Christopher Ranch, said the effect of the move was immediately obvious. At the end of last year, the farm was short 50 workers needed to help peel, package and roast garlic. Within two weeks of upping wages in January, applications flooded in. Now the company has a wait-list 150 people long.


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[TomParks]

Get rid of cheap illegals and wages will rise

Ann Coulter has been saying this for years

 

[Wyatt earp]

*Crickets*





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[Pogo]

*Crickets*

Dafuck do you expect?

O wow man, dramatically raising wages brings in more workers. Who knew that would happen.

What a revelation. You should write a book.


SMH

 

[Brain357]

I will never get why the left always says there is jobs Americans refuse to do....they are retarded if you pay a high enough wage......




How this garlic farm went from a labor shortage to over 150 people on its applicant waitlist


Christopher Ranch, which grows garlic on 5,000 acres in Gilroy, Calif., announced recently that it would hike pay for farmworkers from $11 an hour to $13 hour this year, or 18%, and then to $15 in 2018. That’s four years earlier than what’s required by California’s schedule for minimum wage increases.

Ken Christopher, vice president at Christopher Ranch, said the effect of the move was immediately obvious. At the end of last year, the farm was short 50 workers needed to help peel, package and roast garlic. Within two weeks of upping wages in January, applications flooded in. Now the company has a wait-list 150 people long.


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$15? Nobody can afford to pay that!

 

[Wyatt earp]

*Crickets*

Dafuck do you expect?

O wow man, dramatically raising wages brings in more workers. Who knew that would happen. What a revelation. You should write a book.


SMH

Amnesia much from the lefts silly argument there are jobs Americans won't do?


Or the products will cost to much?


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[Brain357]

*Crickets*

Dafuck do you expect?

O wow man, dramatically raising wages brings in more workers. Who knew that would happen. What a revelation. You should write a book.


SMH

Amnesia much from the lefts silly argument there are jobs Americans won't do?


Or the products will cost to much?


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Doesn't the right claim wages can't go up that high? Prices will go up. Jobs will be automated...

 

[LoneLaugher]

*Crickets*

Dafuck do you expect?

O wow man, dramatically raising wages brings in more workers. Who knew that would happen. What a revelation. You should write a book.


SMH

Amnesia much from the lefts silly argument there are jobs Americans won't do?


Or the products will cost to much?


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You asshole.

Americans will do the jobs. If the fucking pay is good enough. Nobody ever said any different. Ya fucking hack.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

*Crickets*

Dafuck do you expect?

O wow man, dramatically raising wages brings in more workers. Who knew that would happen. What a revelation. You should write a book.


SMH

Amnesia much from the lefts silly argument there are jobs Americans won't do?


Or the products will cost to much?


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Doesn't the right claim wages can't go up that high? Prices will go up. Jobs will be automated...

Doesn't the right claim wages can't go up that high?

Boot 10 million illegals, see how high they go..........

 

[LoneLaugher]

Fucking Bear just argued for a $15 minimum wage. Love it.

 

[Timmy]

You guys are dense .

Garlic guy is just poaching immigrant workers from the farms around him . Of course they jump ship for higher pay !

Other farms will have to match.

 

[Crixus]

*Crickets*

Dafuck do you expect?

O wow man, dramatically raising wages brings in more workers. Who knew that would happen. What a revelation. You should write a book.


SMH

Workers that are citizens and don't smell like the Rio, oh wait, its Cali, whatever. Wet backs likely still work there.

 

[Brain357]

*Crickets*

Dafuck do you expect?

O wow man, dramatically raising wages brings in more workers. Who knew that would happen. What a revelation. You should write a book.


SMH

Amnesia much from the lefts silly argument there are jobs Americans won't do?


Or the products will cost to much?


.

Doesn't the right claim wages can't go up that high? Prices will go up. Jobs will be automated...

Doesn't the right claim wages can't go up that high?

Boot 10 million illegals, see how high they go..........

I have my doubts it will be very affected. But I guess we will see.

 

[mamooth]

Amnesia much from the lefts silly argument there are jobs Americans won't do?

That's the right's argument as to why they need immigrants to depress wages. The left has always said if you pay people, they will come. Don't be projecting your beliefs on to us.

Now, you appear to have amnesia concerning your claims that higher wages will destroy all American businesses.

 

[Crixus]

Amnesia much from the lefts silly argument there are jobs Americans won't do?

That's the right's argument as to why they need immigrants to depress wages. The left has always said if you pay people, they will come. Don't be projecting your beliefs on to us.

Now, you appear to have amnesia concerning your claims that higher wages will destroy all American businesses.

Na, just jobs.

 

[Syriusly]

I will never get why the left always says there is jobs Americans refuse to do....they are retarded if you pay a high enough wage......




How this garlic farm went from a labor shortage to over 150 people on its applicant waitlist


Christopher Ranch, which grows garlic on 5,000 acres in Gilroy, Calif., announced recently that it would hike pay for farmworkers from $11 an hour to $13 hour this year, or 18%, and then to $15 in 2018. That’s four years earlier than what’s required by California’s schedule for minimum wage increases.

Ken Christopher, vice president at Christopher Ranch, said the effect of the move was immediately obvious. At the end of last year, the farm was short 50 workers needed to help peel, package and roast garlic. Within two weeks of upping wages in January, applications flooded in. Now the company has a wait-list 150 people long.


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From the article:

Raising wages only serves to cannibalize from the existing workforce; it does nothing to add new laborers to the pool.”

Are these workers suddenly coming to do the work when they refused the work before?

No- these are workers who are already working in agriculture 100 or miles away- and coming to work where the pay is higher.

Nothing in this article indicates these workers are workers who were 'refusing' to work until the pay was raised.

This is a huge issue in the area- some agriculture workers do get paid well- grape growers in Napa and Sonoma pay much higher wages than what apple ranchers in Sonoma can pay.

This doesn't change the fact that the pool of agricultural workers is shrinking- more workers are returning to Mexico and not coming back. Farmers are competing for an ever shrinking pool of legal workers willing to work in the Agriculture sector.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Fucking Bear just argued for a $15 minimum wage. Love it.

Once again a retarded lefty can not figure out the difference between government artificially raising wages and the market .


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[Brain357]

Fucking Bear just argued for a $15 minimum wage. Love it.

Once again a retarded lefty can not figure out the difference between government artificially raising wages and the market .


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Wouldn't the effect of the wage stay the same? If $15 is going to cause job loss and price increases via min wage, won't it do the same if caused by the market?

 

[Moonglow]

I will never get why the left always says there is jobs Americans refuse to do....they are retarded if you pay a high enough wage......




How this garlic farm went from a labor shortage to over 150 people on its applicant waitlist


Christopher Ranch, which grows garlic on 5,000 acres in Gilroy, Calif., announced recently that it would hike pay for farmworkers from $11 an hour to $13 hour this year, or 18%, and then to $15 in 2018. That’s four years earlier than what’s required by California’s schedule for minimum wage increases.

Ken Christopher, vice president at Christopher Ranch, said the effect of the move was immediately obvious. At the end of last year, the farm was short 50 workers needed to help peel, package and roast garlic. Within two weeks of upping wages in January, applications flooded in. Now the company has a wait-list 150 people long.


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Damn that leftist Bush jr..

 

[Moonglow]

My minimum wage for 6.5 hours of working today, $524 dollars....