General Discussion

I lived in WA state 20 years ago when the Feds and the state looked for ways to increase US labor on farms and decrease the immigrant worker population. They tried hiring high school and college kids, retired folks, the unemployed and it always ended the same way. Starting on Monday and by Wednesday 75% of the workers walked away complaining it was too hard, too hot, too back breaking, for too little money. A few % made it to Friday and no one came back the next Monday. And the experiment was tree fruit, not the really back breaking stuff like strawberries and asparagus where you are bent over all day and have the occasional rattlesnake to contend with.