"Nativist resistance to cheap immigrant labour" - ha. The shame of pwogwessives like Marv and most of the left is that for 25 years they have ignored what globalization has done to U.S. workers. When you brand attention to the problem of cheap immigrant labor as "nativist resistance," you put objectively pro-capitalist identity politics over class politics. For example, why haven't left groups put out a platform of demands like these:
* Demand that immigrants both get assistance in getting started (language classes, counseling to locate housing and so on, etc.) and meet corresponding requirements in order to stay. * Demand increased educational facilities and student aid for occupations that are importing workers, for example, nurses. * Demand that employers must file evidence of wages paid before hiring their first immigrant staff and then pay them the same wage. * Demand that employers must show evidence of offering higher wages (say, up to 20% over prevailing) and being unable to fill positions before they can employ immigrants. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29238): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29238 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104706972/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
