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What's realistic about it ? looks like another article full of childish tweeting.

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Amid foreign worker shortage, Bar Harbor businesses turn to local labor

 

Businesses in Maine that rely on summer help are hoping that Congress will come to the rescue.

 

Because of new limits on the seasonal worker visa program, restaurants, hotels and other tourist-centered operations are scrambling to find seasonal employees. Until Congress opens the door to more H-2B foreign workers, those businesses are finding ways to attract locals onto the payroll.

 

The wheels are rolling at the Bar Harbor Bicycle Shop. Proprietor Joe Minutolo oversees general maintenance on the dozens of bikes he will rent later this summer. The shop is open year-round, but during past peak summer seasons, Minutolo says he has relied on foreign workers under the federal H-2B program.

 

This year, he says, could be different.

 

Because of the new situation that’s going on with these visaed workers, I think it’s going to create some holes for us,” he says.

 

The situation is that the pool of seasonal visa workers who normally provide a reliable labor force for Bar Harbor’s tourism industry dried up in March, when the federal H-2B program reached its limit of 33,000 for the current fiscal year.

 

Many of those slots were filled in southern states. Additionally, as of this year, returning workers are now counted toward the cap.

 

“All types of businesses — retail, restaurants, the tour boats, all the trips, everything. All types of workers are needed,” she says.

 

Maine’s two senators have submitted legislation that could bring some relief to seasonal employers. The bills call for restoring the original provision that exempts returning H-2B workers from the annual quota.

 

U.S. Sen. Angus King, an independent, says the legislation also calls for an immediate review of the 33,000 seasonal positions, to make sure that they were actually filled.

 

“The best thing that can happen right now is for the administration to do an audit of how many of these visas are actually being used, because the indications are that the visas are taken out early in this sort of deadline process and a lot of them never get used,” he says. “So if we can determine — and the administration can do this very quickly — which ones haven’t been used, that would open up an allocation that would be available to our businesses for this summer.”

 

Until then, Bar Harbor area employers are enticing workers in other ways. Higher wages are part of the solution. Searchfield says some businesses are also weighing new schedules that might appeal to older workers in the region, interested in working only a day or two each week.

 

http://bangordailynews.com/2017/04/28/business/amid-foreign-worker-shortage-bar-harbor-businesses-turn-to-local-labor/?ref=comments

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I disagree, for many years I've listened to relatives and friends in the ag business claim they couldnt get help unless they hired illegals.

What they were really saying is they didnt want to pay more for that work, which is the same thing these folks are saying except the people they hire have a work visa.

The end result is still the same .

Lower wages.

 Just substitute low wage job title bicycle / farm laborer with high tech / software and it's the same thing, suppress wages and continue to spread propaganda ie;

Jobs Americans wont do and not enough trained workers 

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I disagree, for many years I've listened to relatives and friends in the ag business claim they couldnt get help unless they hired illegals.

What they were really saying is they didnt want to pay more for that work, which is the same thing these folks are saying except the people they hire have a work visa.

The end result is still the same .

Lower wages.

california-considering-secession-so-they

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Oreganos, thyme to explain yourselves:

 

 

 

Woman arrested for towing kids in little red wagon

 

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- An Oregon mother has been accused of endangering three young children by towing them behind her car in a little red wagon.

 

Springfield police said 27-year-old Alana Donahue was arrested Wednesday night after at least four motorists reported seeing the car pulling the plastic wagon with her two-year-old daughter, 4-year-old son and 8-year-old nephew inside.

 

Drivers said the woman waved at vehicles to pass as she slowly drove in circles in a roundabout. A witness reported seeing the car going above 30 mph, and the 2-year-old toddler began crying after the wagon tipped up on two wheels. The witness told police that Donahue took her toddler from the wagon to the car, and then continued driving with the 4-year-old and 8-year-old still in the wagon.

 

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/woman-arrested-for-towing-kids-in-little-red-wagon/457016462

I had to read the news report to see if she was drunk. I think I'm madder that she wasn't

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Oreganos, thyme to explain yourselves:alana-donahue-07132017-register-guard.jpWoman arrested for towing kids in little red wagonSPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- An Oregon mother has been accused of endangering three young children by towing them behind her car in a little red wagon.Springfield police said 27-year-old Alana Donahue was arrested Wednesday night after at least four motorists reported seeing the car pulling the plastic wagon with her two-year-old daughter, 4-year-old son and 8-year-old nephew inside.Drivers said the woman waved at vehicles to pass as she slowly drove in circles in a roundabout. A witness reported seeing the car going above 30 mph, and the 2-year-old toddler began crying after the wagon tipped up on two wheels. The witness told police that Donahue took her toddler from the wagon to the car, and then continued driving with the 4-year-old and 8-year-old still in the wagon.http://www.wcsh6.com/news/woman-arrested-for-towing-kids-in-little-red-wagon/457016462

 

Its self explanatory.... Springfield.

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