Oregon farmer says she can't afford to pay workers overtime, now that it's required
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Since 2023, an Oregon law has required farmers to begin paying their workers overtime. At least some farms are doing everything they can to avoid giving those hours, saying that they can't afford the additional expense.
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They deserve every damn dollar too! Them boys work! They come here away from there families to work and you cant even pay them
It isn't extra. Not butter for the biscuit.. It is the biscuit to feed their kids they are tryng to earn. I've worked on farms when no other work was available.
@@crushedorchids Lots of those kids are homeschooled.
@@crushedorchidsso if you're in a tough situation, can't find anything better, or don't qualify for a whole lot, just don't have kids? Not every one has it as lavish as you. I couldn't imagine seriously putting people down for trying to make things work out and still provide for their families. I'm sure those kids will nothing but love and respect for those parents did everything they could for them.
They should still be able to earn enough to live on 55 hours a week.
@@mkklassicmk3895 the important word in your statement is "should"... my uncle Leon always told me not to should on myself... I think he detested tihe word "should".
Yes she can. Don't listen to this crap about "poor farmers". I grew up around the people. They rip you off for labor then bitch about how lazy you are when you you quit.
It seems they had 2 years to figure it out. competition against workers and shortages can lead to laborers getting more money.
Wow...farm workers work 55+ hours a week for extra "spending money?" Please. It seriously is as simple as, if you cannot afford to pay people to do a job for you, you cannot afford to be in business.
Did you even watch the entire video?
Then work the fields yourself and see how you like it. That's like saying you can't afford to be rich. As far as taxes for immigrants this must be fixed as well, they need to pay.
Also, how could you not talk to the workers in the field? This was a big miss from a journalistic point of view.
Her problem is because she is trying to do it legally. These people are competing against the mexican mafia. The mexican mafia does work bellow the legal price. They pay under the table and avoid lots of fees. You sound so much like an so like a democrat. Just oblivious to the real world. Plus its even cheaper to import the food. Which is even worse for worker wages.
She does work her fields 🤡
@@ElleBaby87 row boss is not the same as picking the berries
@@ElleBaby87 Only talking to the owner was a big mistake as far as journalism goes.
Laws passed by people that never worked an hour on a farm. Not to mention the wasted produce left in the fields. That means higher prices for you college grads.
It's so obvious isn't it? You can tell who hasn't worked on a farm in the comment section as well.
@@ElleBaby87 you can tell who's crabby their subsidies and gravy trains at the expense of human rights are getting cut off; seems pretty entitled to me.
You don't know what you are talking about.
@@jamesklaatu9359 Having grown up in agriculture, I'm pretty sure I do, cucktard.
Go back and whinge about your oil and coal investments some more while I laugh and produce biofuels and harvest energy.
Maybe actually do something worthwhile with your life.
Annie should get her family out there in those fields. She wants to be a farmer - do the work.
Who says she doesn't have them out there 🤡 Supply and demand must go over your head.
@@ElleBaby87 paying living wages for fair labor provided must go over your privileged head.
Did you watch to the point of the video where she said that she and her husband have been picking up the slack? Or even to the part where they talk about how farmers don't control the price of their product?
@@sptownsend999 No, I just read the title and commented.
Problem is: farmers are having a hard time convincing Whyte People that field work is a viable job career when you put in hard honest work. 💯
White folks have zero interest in farm work, picking berries is what Boomers did when they were kids for spending money.
I would do it, and I'm white. I grew up in TN. Not all white people are the same.
Racist.
@jamesklaatu9359 it's true. No one else is willling take that kind of low pay for back breaking work.
Yes let's teach our kids how to pick berry in our schools😂 is that ok if u choose this career for your kids I wont complain@@ElleBaby87
getting paid 18 to 20 dollars an hour working 55 hours a week is enough to live on.
A lot of you commenters missed the point. If you go through and watch the entire video, you will learn that farms do not control their prices, the buyers do. This is symptomatic of a larger issue with distribution -- people can't afford food, and farmers can't afford to pay their workers; I would be grilling the retailers, as they are disturbingly close to both of those problems. CEOs pay their employees too little, anyway. It's a shame we have to have a legal minimum wage instead of having CEOs who voluntarily pay their employees more.
I recall one place i worked, when the cost to insure all their FT Employees was going to go up, and yes, we would have to match whatever the employer put in, but it was still worth it. They weren't too thrilled however; so to get around this new law; they cut all their FTE's & turned them into 2/16 hour a week - Jobs (because even 20 PT would get insurance). Yup, the Employees lost everything basically, but not the Business, in fact, they made out like bandits!! AND, they only had to pay for 32 hours of what had once been 40 hr work weeks, to boot!
*walmart has entered chat*
Don't farm leave business
No farming yields no food. It just does not magically happen.
@@stevenlaux2887 bring food from other states or Mexico
@@stevenlaux2887 the number of people in labor in agriculture has dropped from 70% back in the early 20th century to regionally less than a percent to maybe 3% of the regional labor, depending on how you slice it. If you lose 1000 jobs, it's just another day at the office and one of your big agriculture bros will prop up supply while you get the perks from rescue and return programs because you lost 1000 jobs.
If you can't grow your own food then I guess you really are screwed if people having fair pay means every single farm goes under; that's a totally ridiculous assumption which is also uninformed and dumb af.
Like the guy said - knowing they were on a channel where the privileged are going to complain about this - hesitatingly, "it's not a widespread problem across Oregon farms" which also means GTFO of farming so someone useful can manage the resources.
You are clearly failing at business and being a human being. You are the problem.
Do something else.
Require workers to pay taxes claiming only 1 and have to file to recover the rest. Most don't pay taxes at all.
This might be one of the dumbest comment sections on a video ive seen in a while. A majority of the people commenting obviously dont know the meaning of the word margin when it applies to a business.. Let alone understand selling a commodity.. Thats America's education system for you I guess
The government should not be telling the farmers they have to pay overtime
Wth overtime is more than 8 hours and more than 40 hours
Hey Cheapskate,these are some of the hardest working people on the planet. If you can’t pay somebody a decent wage for a hard days work, you should be in a different line of work. I hear the circus is in town.
Hire more ppl, cut their hours. Easy solution, now everyone works part time.
It sounds like she needs to hire more workers, so they don't have to pay overtime. Sounds like Annie needs to adapt to a new world!!!
Sounds like you don't know wtf you're talking about 🤡
@@ElleBaby87 sounds like someone's trust fund took a hit because they had to start being a human being.
Same thing happened when it was required to pay PSWs, HCWs and DEs over time. In that case, the state forbade workers from working over time and termination would result if they were overtime more than once. This amplified the shortage of workers created by a years long hiring freeze and low wages. That shortage stood around 10,000 workers!
Pickers can do better with piece work.
sp she wants to have workers who work for freE? would she work for free?
She is not saying they work for free, she is saying they should work for the standard rate for all hours. Overtime does not make sense for farm workers because it's not something that a farmer can control.
Sure they can control it... anything over 8 hrs is OT... don't wanna pay OT pay rates then don't have your workers wotk more than 8hrs a day
@@johndashnaw-to8if how about piece work pay buy the amount picked that sounds fair the harder you work the more you make
@RichardCook that probably won't work out for the workers either, say you get put in a bad bushel area... your out there working just as hard and not gonna get paid because you didn't bring back a full basket... you should suggest that work for pay at your job, and see how that goes over...
@@johndashnaw-to8if i don't like the idea of a 70k dump truck going down the road at 90 mph to make pay per load! people picking barres in a field is a bit different and if you pay attention that is the way they did it before the stupid legislature thinking they know better
Strange they ended that "racist policy," which now leaves the workers with even less hours and less pay.
That how it should be no matter what the job is any time over 40 hrs should be paid time & a half over 40hrs point blank !!
It'll be interesting to see what happens when the large number of illegal immigrants get into the job market. Me be thinkin' todays farm workers will be up in arms when new immigrants are willing to work less hours for less $.
Raise your prices !
Not how it works! Distribution companies/ markets averages set prices when selling any commodity on that scale
Watch the whole video!
Someone didn't shave this morning.
85 degrees! Wow! What horrible conditions! - sarcasm
in a few years any job that can be done by robots will be done by robots. the big question is how is the average person going to be able to survive without being able to earn a living?
I read Dr. Eric Berne books and shoplift all my food.
Equity dignity and respect, I'm ok with paying an extra $100 month for my produce-- are you?
No I'm not
No, I'm not 😂 You can pick up the extra for me though
News man’s lazy and nosey
Those Popeye Arms are hitting those honey buns rather than do actual work!
Tell us you have no idea how a farm works 😂
@@ElleBaby87 you already did 😀