"A full-time permanent worker, a local, chatted with me, revealing that he gets £240 weekly take-home pay. He had no idea that migrant workers earn at best half that amount for doing the same work."
"No legal status, and you think you can just go in and make a complaint? You look after your own job first! Stop minding other people's business! Remember you are illegal!"
"No one seems to have a handle on the actual percentage of illegal workers staffing the low-paying and often dangerous and dirty slaughterhouse jobs, but most experts agree it is high, likely over 50% in many packing plants."
"The reason that this boom has been sustainable is because of the labor of the undocumented workers that has kept prices low,"
U.S. citizens "wouldn't work as fast as illegals -- you see them out there in 100-degree weather swinging a sledgehammer all day long."
Inside
the grim world of the gangmasters
My name is Hsiao-Hung Pai. I have been living undercover among the
Chinese migrant worker community. I have experienced how their lives
are ruled by gangmasters who house them in appalling conditions,
steal their identity and put them to work in dangerous, low-paid jobs
that no one else will do.
[Part
2 of her report]
Immigrants
the rich love
Hysteria over legal migrants allows lucrative exploitation of illegal
workers to go on unchecked.
Fear
drives Chinese back to cockle beds
Immigration raids leave many without any other chance of work Just
two months after the rapidly rising tide claimed the lives of 20 of
their compatriots, 180 Chinese migrants are back on the sands of
Morecambe Bay to pick cockles.
With
pot and porn outstripping corn, America's black economy is flying
high
More than a million illegal farmworkers are estimated to be employed
in the US. The total number of illegal immigrants is estimated at
about 8 million
Illegal
Labor Common in Meat Industry
A federal crackdown on Tyson Foods Inc. for employing illegal
immigrants has exposed an uncomfortable secret -- the U.S.
meat-processing industry is dependent on undocumented workers to keep
plants running
Illegal
labor aided anti-migrant bigot
All but one of the crew were undocumented immigrants from Latin
America, according to two of the workers.
llegal
labor fuels hot Austin economy
Ask the managers of some of Austin's construction companies and
service businesses what they would do without illegal workers "It
would shut us down, and I cannot think of a single construction
company that could operate," said a construction company manager who
estimates 70 percent of his workers are illegal.
Wal
Mart: "Lower Prices Through Illegal Labor"
It must be a difficult corporate decision, because hiring illegals in
the USA means that the supply of 12 year olds in third world
countries making shoes might go down. On the other hand, illegals
can't join those pesky unions.