Is it surprising when corporate politicians want cheap illegal labor, and the undercutting of legal workers?

Question

when their corporate masters are compelled to make even more profit than the previous year?

Answer 1

The fifties were one of the greatest growth periods in our country, yet one in three workers in America were union. Workers made good money, companies made good profits. Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers started the ball rolling towards corporate America's destruction of unions. Today CEO's are rewarded with huge money for "keeping costs down" translated into paying workers the least amount of money possible while offering no benefits or pensions if possible. That's accomplished with shipping jobs overseas to cheap labor markets and using illegals here under the guise of doing jobs Americans won't do. The big three are no longer automakers, they are lobbyists, politicians and CEO's. They take turns going from one job to the next. Look at Fred Thompson and Jeb Bush and many, many others. They go from board of director into politics, into lobbying or any order in the circle while we get phucked and robbed.

Answer 2

That is not true. American people dont want to work. Half of the people want to spend their life on Child Support, Food Stamps etc. They dont want to work because they are lazy.
Look at the economy that we have. Anyone can find any type of job. If you work you can make a fortune But half of the american dont want to work in the sun, so the illegal labor will do that.

Answer 3

In the 1980s, for example, the increasing supply of labor (both from Reagan-allowed consolidations eliminating redundant jobs, and from illegal immigration, which was around 3 million illegals by the time Reagan left office) fed massive union-busting in industry sectors from those directly hit with illegal immigrant labor (like construction and agriculture) to those who only felt its fallout but nonetheless were pressed (like coal mining). In part, because of these national downward pressures on organized labor, the miners who died in the International Coal Group's Sago Mine didn't have union protection.

Indeed, as the International Coal Group's June 2005 form S-A/1 filing notes about one of their other recent mine acquisitions: ".assets are high quality reserves strategically located in Appalachia and the Illinois Basin, are union free, have limited reclamation liabilities and are substantially free of other legacy liabilities." Similarly, it's estimated that the construction industry enhanced their profits last year by over a billion dollars because the availability of illegal immigrant labor has so significantly pushed down the price of construction labor.

"Union free" is good for the CEOs and stockholders of giant corporations. Reagan helped make it possible by reducing enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust and similar acts, by making the Labor Department hostile to labor, and by thus producing an environment into which illegal immigrant labor could step. He busted PATCO and popularized anti-union rhetoric, at a time when union membership was one of the primary boundaries that keep illegal labor out of the marketplace.

Today, this fundamental economic rule of labor supply and demand is most conspicuous
Today, this fundamental economic rule of labor supply and demand is most conspicuous in the conservative reluctance to stop illegal immigration into the United States. All those extra (illegal) workers, after all, drive up the supply - and thus drive down the cost - of labor. Even in areas where there are not high populations of illegal immigrants, their presence elsewhere in the American workforce drives down overall the cost of labor nationwide. And when the cost of labor goes down, there's more money left over for CEOs and stockholder dividends.