MIchele's Post for the week of August 25, 2008

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FARM_SCENE_FARMWORKER_HOUSING_SURVEY?SITE=NCBUR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I got this article out of the paper from where I used to live in Burlington, North Carolina. (The Times News)

The article talks about migrant workers and the substandard if no housing that is available to them. There is even mention of a "tent area" where many of the fieldworkers reside as well as ones who are considered homeless. I happen to think that, for one, the farmers choose migrant workers because they work for next to nothing as opposed to hiring people out of our own back yard. This hiring practice is rampant throughout the country because companies do everything they can to cut costs. What they fail to realize is that they are cutting the throats of the very people they are in business trying to cater to. The people who were born in this country are having a hard time finding a sustainable living because illegal foreigners will come and pile up 20 deep in one house and work for next to nothing. They then send the money back to their home country which hurts our economy even more. I would applaud the companies who take more effort to hire people who are legal in this country and turn away those who can not prove their citizenry. It doesn't matter that the illegal can work for less or has the better skills. Skills are learned and a true American can learn those skills and become just as valuable to a company with even more loyalty than an illegal. Companies should see that loyalty is not there in an illegal as they have turned their back on their own country and refuse to become a citizen or our country like they should.

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Welcome to our blog. It is now set up! This is for group 3 section 1 of the Business Ethics class at Coastal Carolina University.