Both Democratic and Republican tolerance for the illegal use of immigrant labor is the whole of the problem.

Their business models could not function without this abuse of labor and law.

(5/n)

2) How utterly dependent Washington state businesses were on their white (male, mostly) owners breaking the law *as a business model*.

Their businesses could not have survived without their employers routinely, as a matter of course, breaking the law and hiring "illegal" immigrants. Who were vulnerable to every sort of abuse, including wage theft, because they could not legally stand up to it.
(5/n)

2) How utterly dependent Washington state businesses were on their white (male, mostly) owners breaking the law *as a business model*.

Their businesses could not have survived without their employers routinely, as a matter of course, breaking the law and hiring "illegal" immigrants. Who were vulnerable to every sort of abuse, including wage theft, because they could not legally stand up to it.
(5/n)

OK so it looks like I’m going to Manchester EMOM next week, woohoo. The thing I like about EMOM - one of the things I like about EMOM because there are many, many things to like about it - one of the things I like about EMOM is that its not just a global movement but also a super local thing.. They’re all happening in their own unique way. I think I’d like to visit them all one day.

Seems to me the solution is simple:

America businesses *must* obey American law in hiring, wages and working conditions. If it costs more to obey the law, so be it.

American government *must* enforce the law for employers first and foremost. The workers whose margins of profits those employers reap are not the problem. The employers breaking the law are the problem.

If the American economy must depend on "Gastarbeiter", make it legal and protect the workers first.

(6/6)

2) how complicit the state's businesses and government were in shamelessly gaming immigrants' "illegal" status.

American owned businesses profited from not paying prevailing wages (or, for that matter, OSHA penalties and heightened dues, or even owed wages), "illegal" immigrants got a slim chance at a better life, and even Democratic politicians got to sit firmly on both sides of the fence in maintaining this corrupt system.
(4/n)

Seems to me the solution is simple:

America businesses *must* obey American law in hiring, wages and working conditions. If it costs more to obey the law, so be it.

American government *must* enforce the law for employers first and foremost. The workers whose margins of profit those employers reap are not the problem. The employers breaking the law are the problem.

If the American economy must depend on "Gastarbeiter", make it legal and protect the workers first.

(5/5)

Fred Trump, Bozo the clown's 🤡 grandfather, appears to have illegally emigrated from Bavaria, and ran an illegal booze and prostition ring, so the Entire "anchor baby" Trump Family should be rounded up and deported.

Since Bavaria no longer exists, El Salvador sounds like a great place to drop them all off.

Or, maybe Gitmo.

now that i think about it, Kuzu no Honkai is a much more normal show than Netsuzou Trap. fake dating is an acceptable coping mechanism; cucking people isn't.

Both Democratic and Republican tolerance for the illegal use of immigrant labor is the whole of the problem.

Their business models could not function without this abuse of labor and law.

(5/n)

Happy #caturday 😺🤎 #cats #catsofmastodon

Donnie likes t-shirts.

#donchonk #caturday #chamedi #catsofmastodon

i used to avoid squarepusher's music because i didn't want to be seen as someone who listens to electronic music lest someone group me with those who only enjoy no-brainers like what TheFatRat and Alan Walker likes to make. that changes today.

The newly available swaync 0.12.0 update requires new deps, which isn’t a problem overall, but concerning #nwgshell — it introduces 7 new packages into the mix (minus one if you count dropping granite 6 and adding 7). Most of them are gnome deps but adding them for notifications seems… excessive. 🤔

About that time (under Governor Gregoire, see AFSCME v. WaSt), hearings were being held in the state lege about the abuse of immigrant labor.

I offered to testify but was told that wasn't needed. They ended up rubber stamping the status quo.

Two things remain with me from that time:
1) how vulnerable immigrant women were to sexual aggression from immigrant men. The white bosses couldn't have cared less about what men did to women, and the women had nowhere to go.

(4/n)

I should note this is for my home internet, NOT my web server. I have never heard a peep from my host about using too much bandwidth, so I’ll keep assuming I’m far below my limit, cuz their charts make no damn sense to my pea brain. #xfinity #SBo

The company had a policy of requiring agricultural workers to check in 1/2 an hour to an hour before their shift to gather supplies, suit up, etc.

They were not paid for this, in violation of WA state law. I filed a complaint and was able to recoup almost a year's worth of lost wages, as were the other workers.
But WaSt denied the decades long harm done to the other workers because they had not risked their livelihoods to file as well (next to no protection against retaliation).
(3/n)

Most "Americans" washed out in two weeks, per the competent, hard working crew of Latinas, Latinos, Vietnamese, Koreans (both South and North) & al.

The bosses were all white men, the office based support staff, all white women.

The workers in the actual production areas were political refugees from southeast Asia, and mostly economic refugees from Latin and South America.

The work was hard but so good for the bod that we joked about *charging* to let people work there.
(2/n)

T minus three days to #Korvapuusti

This is just my one point of data, but...

In the 2000's, during a blacklist from IT jobs, I worked 11 months in an agriculture environment in Washington state.

I was one of exactly two white persons to survive more than a couple of weeks there. The other was a Texas woman, with a liberal arts education and a history of working these types of jobs.

(1/n)