tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post113192727759176966..comments2024-03-28T11:30:20.005-05:00Comments on El Salvador Perspectives: Importing foreign workersTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-1132320088017546202005-11-18T07:21:00.000-06:002005-11-18T07:21:00.000-06:00This is the same situation in Canada. Canadians do...This is the same situation in Canada. Canadians do not want to work in the fields and the wages are low. There are many workers from Mexico and they are treated like slaves, with few rights. They pay taxes but have no access to services. The owners say it is to save money, but food is very expensive still. It's part of the global situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-1132183947442831372005-11-16T17:32:00.000-06:002005-11-16T17:32:00.000-06:00It is incredibly ironic. I don't have much sympat...It is incredibly ironic. I don't have much sympathy for growers, who have not increased wages in 7 years above starvation levels, who can't attract local workers with those wages. The situation makes you realize the depth of poverty in Honduras and Nicaragua. The bad situation in those countries allows growers to keep wages low by attracting the migrant workers. The only solutions are two which are not likely in El Salvador -- a living minimum wage law or unionization of farm workers.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-1132183448610072272005-11-16T17:24:00.000-06:002005-11-16T17:24:00.000-06:00Ironic, isn't it? People from poor nations migrati...Ironic, isn't it? People from poor nations migrating to El Salvador, not just campesinos but also people that were discontent with what they earned on their countries exercising their professions (just to change jobs once they found they couldn't exactly exercise their professions). The reason they migrate? Because their nations are even worse than El Salvador's situation. Makes me feel sympathetic towards them, because seeing how El Salvador's labor force choose to migrate to the city or US instead of coping with near starvation thanks to the country's pathetic wages, but those people just decide to settle with this... which may be far better than with what they had.It's all the government's fault (not the remittances), for not increasing wages, and placing too much attention in a single city and not placing any incentives for people to work on the rural areas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com