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posted by martyb on Monday November 13 2017, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the cleaning-up dept.

Claiming a shortage of workers for the hospitality industry, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club has requested and obtained permission to hire 70 foreign workers. The claim of a shortage of available workers is disputed:

'"We currently have 5,136 qualified candidates in Palm Beach County for various hospitality positions listed in the Employ Florida state jobs database," CareerSource spokesman Tom Veenstra said Friday.'

70 is a slight increase over last year, when 64 foreign workers were hired.

"Making America Great Again" by hiring foreigners? Perhaps what is required is higher pay, not foreigners.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @05:22PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @05:22PM (#596317)

    It does our country no good to have Trump properties stubbornly go out of business, crushed by competition that hires cheaper workers. We need to make it so that hiring American workers is competitive.

    This isn't something that an individual company can fix. Once the government cuts off the supply of cheap H1-B workers, resorts will have to hire American workers. Pay will increase, maybe even to the "living wage" the left so adores. Currently, a business owner would be a damn fool to pay that well, since cheap workers are available and being used by all the other businesses.

    You could even say that fixing the situation with Trump properties makes a fine goal for Trump to achieve: he'll have succeeded when his hiring managers can't find foreign workers who are cheaper than American workers.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 13 2017, @06:09PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 13 2017, @06:09PM (#596346)

    Someone needs to learn the difference between H1-B and H2-B.

    I also recently heard that there were tens of thousands of US citizens available for menial jobs, desperate as they are to reconstruct their lives after fleeing a devastated tropical island.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @07:16PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @07:16PM (#596386)

      H1-B, H2-B, whatever... might as well be some kind of refugee or diplomatic visa for all I care!

      If hiring foreigners is cheaper, either here or in their own countries, we have a problem. It's a national problem that can not be fixed by a business ignoring economics and thus failing.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @03:12PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @03:12PM (#596815)

        no that is not correct -- they are responding to economics by hiring the cheapest labor allowable by law, which often is more lenient than what some segments of the public would allow.

        if you want to solve the problem, cheap labor from other countries is not the real issue, the real issue is why does the US economy encourage this, and why are prices so high that costs must be controlled in this way, as opposed to say reducing the prices so that regular people can have more money left over that they earn from their modestly paying job?

        because rich people don't want people that won't be high margin, unless they are the labor. then its as low margin as can be allowed.