They absolutely are pushing down wages, especially when they come from poor desperate countries, because they’re in a much more precarious financial position, they’re easier to exploit, less likely to join a union, and most importantly, more likely to work for lower wages.
Separating that, from the notion of racism or people getting mad at the immigrants, and not the elected officials creating the policies that allow your boss to import and exploit people from overseas, is important to working class success.
How did we get so easily baited into falling for this?
It’s both, but boss is the biggest contributor of the two by far. I’ve worked for few owners, they hate payroll. It’s their biggest expense and that infuriates many of them. They despise paying anybody anything.
So, of course a huge amount pay the lowest wages possible, and a lot of them would own you as a slave if it was legal, no doubt. And they’d grumble about the cost of the gruel.
Government’s fundamental job is keeping the general population from being enslaved by these people. It’s what government is for.
It’s their biggest expense
I kinda doubt this is true for most businesses to be honest. It’s just the expense that most pisses them off.
It’s kinda like if you ever get into an argument with someone about US government spending. Many people believe military personnel is the biggest ticket item for the pentagon when it is not even close.
Many companies spend more on marketing (in house or more often outsourced) than they do on labor. But for some reason, labor is always what pisses them off.
evidenced plainly by the fact that they’d invest 1.5+ trillion in the magical “I don’t need workers anymore” word guessing machine and keep doubling and tripling down upon it at the potential peril of the global economy
lol really? Cheap labors drives down wages.
Yeah this poster is idiotic and hopefully not real. My boss and my government is the problem, for hiring and exploiting the migrant workers who are so desperate that they will work for lower wages.
If we fix the laws so that there aren’t so many desperate poor people to import and exploit, we could solve this problem.
But the IWW is captured and corrupt so it makes sense they would make this.
