Then pay living wages. It's hard to feel sorry for you when you're crying about losing your slave labor.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
487 points (98.2% liked)
News
30730 readers
3411 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
487
ICE raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: ‘We need the labor’
(www.theguardian.com)
This is a problem that's been brewing for a long time. Their business model is untenable at the scale they're at without relying on near slave labour. Their massive profits come more from scale, than absolute margin, so if they actually payed a living wage they'd be in the red.
So now y'all will have to wait until the coming food shortages drive up prices before the pay is enough to interest other Americans that'd otherwise have no interest in those sorts of jobs.
The owners won't play ball without getting their pound of flesh.
We could subsidize the farms that grow actual food crops picked by humans at a high enough rate that the food is affordable and the workers are paid reasonably well. And do that instead of subsidizing farms that grow feed corn, ethanol corn, and grain/soy for export.
That sounds like socialist propaganda boy. Get back to greasing that engine.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Every time a ceo whines about how they "can't" do something, everyone should add "...without stopping the siphoning of ever more money to our shareholders and ourselves."
what’s wrong? no labor? pay more.
Ain't no MAGAs running to the field or up the ladders to take these hard jobs at any price.
load more comments
(21 replies)
Lisa Tate, farmer in Ventura county who donated $250 to republiQan Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares?
Sen. Valladares who founded a Republican Latino caucus in the CA legislature, saying
the Democratic-led Latino Caucus would support "antiquated solutions" to issues such as farmworkers' rights that “keep Latinos under the monolithic umbrella of being poor, agricultural workers.” ?
Huh.
That sounds straight-up stupid.
“That’s not the modern-day Latino,” she said.
…The 35-member Latino Caucus, historically led by Democrats after the first Latino lawmakers were elected in 1962, has focused on a wide range of policy priorities, including giving protections and equal access to immigrants regardless of legal status, promoting STEM programs in schools and expanding paid sick leave and housing to farmworkers.
“Even in the Latino Caucus, you have moderates, progressives and everything in between,” Miguel Santiago, a Democratic former Assembly member and Latino caucus member. “But one thing that has always united us through every argument is our unwavering support for Latino communities, particularly those who are undocumented.”
Santiago said that he is “skeptical about the sincerity” of the Hispanic Legislative Caucus representing Latino interests, particularly when it comes to protecting the undocumented and that those differences “are irreconcilable.”
Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), former Assembly speaker who left behind a legacy of progressive reforms, including giving farmworkers overtime pay and expanding childhood education, agrees that there should be a Latino caucus for each party.
"I never understood why they wanted to be part of our caucus other than obstructing us," he said. "They would just yell, we'd take a vote, and they'd lose."
While I was initially frothing at the mouth at your comment, and I still think that her donation obviously wasn’t in her best interests, the vast vast majority of her donations on that page are to either libs or labor groups (͡•_ ͡• )
load more comments
(1 replies)
Latinos for Republicans are just brown people begging to be considered white but will always be bean-eating wet backs to Republicans.
Bout time for them farmers to pull up their bootstraps and get out into their fields. Get to work! Those pesky immigrants are no longer in your way
Why isn't Lisa Tate being arrested for labor law violations?
Cuz she's the exploiter. The US only punishes the exploited. Especially if they're not white.
load more comments
(1 replies)
“This is ICE! Round up all your undocumented day laborers”
“Sir, I’m too busy for that right now. If you and your men can help me pick all these tomatoes, I’ll have time to tell you where they’re all hiding.”
— 8 hours later —
“Thanks for helping get all the produce in. As you can see, we no longer have any undocumented day laborers, so now we depend on regular ICE raids to keep the farm going. Have a nice day!”
"They're hiding the strawberries! Pick them all and you'll find them!"
Oddly, in some videos where the masked ICE cowards are talking, they sound like Chicanos.
California has a reputation for being liberal, leftist, and progressive… but remember that the vast, overwhelming majority of farmers in the state are as fascist and blindly, religiously Republican as the most red parts of the most red states. They voted for this.
They also voted against slave labor (not only the farmers, but the liberal progressive rest of the state).
They wanted to keep THEIR illegal workers. They just wanted everyone ELSE'S to be deported. Hypocrisy is live and well in the US.
The US will reap what it sowed and it won't be pretty.
Source: US citizen, currently
No they won't. They deported the reapers
The only one we have left is grim.
He’s been here on a work visa for a single hamster soul for decades now.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Trump: ... US citizen SO FAR. Shut up or you'll be covfefed in a second. The US is beautifully great again! Even my friend Putin agrees.
load more comments
(1 replies)
It is time for a reckoning that should have happened after the Civil War.
Isnt this what a national guard should be used for. They should be protecting California crops from Ice. Our country will loss so much in produce because of these ice raids that will ruin billions of dollars of food.
So the national guard should be used to make sure farmers get to keep their slave labor?
ICE shouldn't be doing what they're doing, but if farmers paid their workers a living wage this wouldn't be an issue.
The National Guard should be out picking the crops, defending the nation’s food supply.
I can definitely agree there
if only ICE forced the owners to pay a fair wage, "wait no thats communism!" better arrest the workers instead its easier
Wish the corps and field owners hiring undocumented immigrants for chump change would be penalized. These farm workers are doing intensive labor and deserve way more pay.
Better yet, put every maga asshat out in the fields. This is exactly what they wanted right? Immigrants out of US jobs. I'm sure they are lining up right now.
I've got an idea, what if the landowners loaned plots of the farm to smaller farmers, and those farmers would pay off that loan by sharing their crops with the owner? you could even manage your conditional employees with an app, called Tuber or something
Maybe they can get some of those J6 Nazis to go harvest?
Prisons: "hey inmates, we have a field trip for you today!“ ...and every other day while we are getting paid for your labour
Luckily, CA voted to remain a slave state, so we can have affordable food on our plates again soon!
These ICE agents who are the same people who love to screech "THEY TAYKIN ER JERRBBZ" are...literally taking people's jobs
Anything to keep Stephen Miller happy, eh?
US agriculture will collapse and the void will be filled by Silicon Valley tech bros with their vertical farms backed by VC money. Elon Musk’s brother owns a vertical farming business and Peter Thiel has invested in lab grown meat companies. Remember the goal of these techno fascists is to create sovereign territories aka “Freedom Cities”within the US, and agriculture is vital to make such a thing a reality.
load more comments
(1 replies)
view more: next ›