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USA - 27.01.2025 - von David Bacon
The current fight within the Republican Party highlights, once again, that ensuring a steady labor supply for corporations remains Trump’s primary focus. I say “once again” because this mirrors what happened in 2017, when he met with corporate growers to assure them that his immigration enforcement would not deprive them of workers in the fields. In fact, that is just what happened with the expansion of the H-2A guest worker visa program and the absence of mass firings of farmworkers at critical times because of their undocumented status.
Two months ago, construction companies in Texas made media appeals, not for more border enforcement, but urging Trump not to use enforcement to deprive them of workers. Now, the tech industry is demanding more workers too. The supply of workers for the tech industry “simply does not exist in America in sufficient quantity,” according to Tesla owner and billionaire Elon Musk. Tech corporate titans, including Google’s Sundar Pichai, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos all visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate during and after the campaign, making the same demand. Just before New Year, Trump responded by saying, “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.” In his hotels and golf courses, he has also used another Federal guestworker visa program, H-2B, to supply gardeners and housekeepers.
Whether for tech titans or corporate growers, the key issue is supplying workers at a price employers want to pay. Agriculture and construction laborers are just two industries built on a workforce at close to minimum wage. ...
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Die sich entwickelnden Strategien zur Verteidigung zugewanderter Arbeitskräfte und die Ambivalenz der Unternehmensinteressen in den USA
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