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POPSMexican Migrant Workers in "Slave-Like Conditions" "So they decided to organize. The workers invited us to a meeting and described their conditions. We told them that as African Americans, we recognized what they were describing, and we were with them. The next day the workers walked off the plantation to demand their dignity. A delegation of African Americans attempted to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Relan on charges of violating the federal laws that define slavery, peonage, human trafficking, and servitude in the United States. We read him his rights, and told him that he was violating the laws our ancestors fought for. He was forced to return the passports but Relan still struck back: He fired the workers and illegally evicted them."
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POPSUndocumented Workers This brings up many interesting points. Are these employers the same ones that previously were demanding "illegals" should learn English, that passed housing occupancy laws that singled out immigrants, that refused to pay a living wage? It seems the arguments shift when a companies profits are lessened. I, for one, would be willing to pay more for a tomato if the worker who picked the tomato earned a living wage, if they had health insurance, if they were encouraged to become citizens. Yes, the answers aren't simple but the ethics and morality of economic slave labor demand solutions.
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POPSExactly the Wrong Response to Caplan I absolutely agree that there is a difference between economic rationality and something like good judgment, but child labor and minimum wage laws (and every other real check on the market) come not from the better angels of our natures, but from the stubborn struggle of the workers, and the fear of that struggle among the decision-making elites. The moralistic rejoinder to free market ideologues is liberal in the bad sense--fuzzy headed wishful thinking.
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POPSSmells Like Tuna Gee, Pelosi gives Star-Kist a cozy deal and screws some Samoans. Hard to find this one in the MSM isn't i?
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