Construction Trade Group Whines..Source of compliant-cheap labor threatened

[Teamster Jeff]

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Several major construction industry groups are criticizing the agreement reached last week over how many low-skilled guest workers should be granted visas each year, complaining that the proposed limits were “unrealistic.” The trade associations, including Associated Builders and Contractors and the National Electrical Contractors Association, issued a statement late Wednesday highlighting their concerns about the proposal between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
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“We are deeply concerned with the size and the scope of the temporary guest worker program in the proposal now being drafted by the ‘Gang of Eight’ senators,” the groups wrote in a statement first reported by Politico. “Capping the amount of visas for the construction industry at only 15,000 in an industry that currently employs nearly six million workers is simply unrealistic and destined to fail.”
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First of all aren't these "Trade associations" unions for companies. Second of all it makes me happy to see them worried that they might have to pay higher wages/benefits to a labor force with a little more leverage.

[Brickbat]

1. The ABC can eat a bag of dicks.