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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (259353)	7/8/2010 4:38:51 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I do know a lot of them get CASH.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (259353)	7/8/2010 7:11:30 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 306849

A higher minimum wage would be fine, but it won't happen while we're running 10% unemployment I agree. The problem has been in the making for many years, but in fact the last decade has shifted towards correcting it in many states. Do all farm workers receive at least minimum wage however? The article I first posted had the odd comment (from the UFW) claiming some small farms are exempt. I've not heard of that before. It used to be common for dishonest employers to scam illegal workers, including calling the INS at pay day. In reality, around here, the great majority of workers are now legal, as a result of the reforms from a few years back. When they first went in, there was a lot of screaming from farmers, and after that, wages jumped up above minimum wage. The other thing that happened was that farmers worked harder at keeping year around crews, so that they had happy workers when they needed them. Strange how that works. Before, the farmer approach was to have larger crews for shorter periods, which admittedly is easier on the farmer from a planning standpoint, but left the workers unemployed more often. Now working with a smaller full year crew is more the mode, and that requires thinking ahead for the larger time critical tasks. Farmers who don't look at things from the workers POV suffer by finding no workers.