yes why don't the factories hire the scab labor AND retain the existing labor while paying both more than before, that sounds extremely tenable
Can you provide any particular reason why hiring refugees is better than hiring from the existing unemployed labor force?
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Any particular reason why "it's good in general?"
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Because people fleeing oppression or disaster should be able to work and eat as well?
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and people who already live here shouldn't have priority for working because...?
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Because it’s not a zero sum game economically? And putting people against each other in that way is ridiculously reactionary and nativist
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If the unemployed are kept unemployed because cheaper labor is brought in from afar, then....
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The article specifically says that high turnover is due to drastic reductions in wages and benefits, then hails Mr Wiley for recruiting from abroad to try and stabilize these poor conditions at the expense of the dissatisfied local labor
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Extrapolating from one article what resettlement policy and it’s effects on labor seems to be a bit much? The larger body of work seems to suggest that this isn’t the case. But more so letting people die in other places as “not our problem” is a pretty gross way to go about life
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Letting people die in other places (within the country) as "not our problem" is exactly what you do when you let dismal labor conditions continue by allowing employers to pull from the world's most desperate rather than pay uppic.twitter.com/CXa4yyHY2F
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