Trump Winery petitions to hire more foreign workers

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY OWEN DAUGHERTY - 12/07/18 02:38 PM EST

The Trump Winery in Virginia is attempting to hire six more foreign guest workers, according to a petition filed with the Department of Labor Thursday.

The winery, officially called Trump Vineyard Estates, LLC, is officially owned by President Trump’s son Eric Trump.

The winery is seeking to hire the workers under the federal H-2A visa program, hoping to add to the 23 foreign guest workers it sought to hire in January.

Located near Charlottesville, the winery would pay the workers $11.46 an hour, according to the filing. The seasonal work is slated to start in February and could last through July.



Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/420302-trump-winery-petitions-to-hire-more-foreign-workers

[Guppy]

1. 11.46

cheapskate

[LakeSuperiorView]

2. The Trump Whinery this morning took more than 10 minutes per tweet...

At those slower than telegraph like rates, help is needed there as well.

[Initech]

3. America first!!!!!

[Paladin]

4. Wassa-madda, Gummy Eric?

Couldn't you find any real 'Murcans to do the work for $11.46/hour?

Christ, the Trump Crime Family doesn't even try to hide its rank hypocrisy anymore.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. $11.46 an hour for outdoor seasonal work

with no benefits. The thing is, in order to apply for that type of worker, you must pay the "prevailing wage" as set by the DOL. If Eric was willing to pay $15 an hour, he might get some takers. Of course, then he might have to charge an extra buck for his swill.

[politicaljunkie41910]

11. The thing is, these workers who the Chumps bring over on H-2 Visas can only work for the Chumps.

So if the vineyard down the road is paying $15 or $18/hr and the Chumps are only paying $11.46, if the worker tries to leave the Chumps and goes down the road and is offered a job paying more, the Chumps can have them deported because their coming into the country is conditional on them working for the Chumps. That is why the Chumps can treat them shabbily because they know that they can threaten the H-2 Visa workers with deportation should they try and leave their employment sponsor which would be the Chumps.

[Just a Weirdo]

5. What? Who'd drink that swill?

Must be rotgut wine.

[keithbvadu2]

6. The coal miners must all have jobs now. Good to know they don't have to worry about that anymore.

The coal miners must all have jobs now.

Good to know they don't have to worry about that anymore.

[Achilleaze]

7. republicans are such hypocritical a-holes

Do what we say, not what we do. Screw that.

[Corgigal]

8. Laws must be changed.

This is all bs. My family went to Wildwood New Jersey a few years back. Every hotel hired Russian workers claiming they couldn't find Americans to work in the hotels and motels. They would if they paid people.



Weasels.

[Astraea]

9. and I thought it couldn't get any worse than Boone's Farm

[riversedge]

12. k for visibility