Workers related to the pagans $ 7.25 per hour, when in their ganaban less than that per day.
With the cultivation of perdose due to lack of manure, some Agricultural importers working Mexican to Puerto Rico, a state island with a rampant example to receive the pandemic bonuses are most profitable to work the camp.
In the González Finca, in the Guánica municipality in the surest of this Caribbean island, a group of Mexican workers in the empacador; another lava the plantains and a third amarra the tomato stalks to the stacks.
“This is very good. For those who are acostumbrados, this is perfect, ”Abigain Sebastián, a 22-year-old doubter, said he was afraid of the tomatoes he was eating.
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“In Mexico, the most difficult thing to do is to pay dollars for the day’s work.”
In Puerto Rico, in exchange, Sebastián receives $ 7.25 per hour, which is the federal minimum wage of the United States.
“This diner is a very stable aid”, dice the joven. Viste mangas largas y una gorra para protegerse del sol tropiese.
For Puerto Ricans, in exchange, $ 7.25 the hour is not enough, except for a 9.2% sample rate.
Less than that, as a result of the pandemic, those deployed in this territory not incorporated by the United States will receive – as well as the rest of the country – a monthly bonus of $ 300 in addition to the benefit of the sample.
It’s the case of Juan Santiago, who lives near the Finca González even prefers not to work hard. He lost his job in February and, with it, his salary of 290 dollars a week.
Now in exchange I receive 540 weekly dollars: 240 for the benefit of example and 300 as part of the historical plan of rescission signed by President Joe Biden on 11 March.
“I’m better than when I work,” Santiago told AFP. “I’m not a fan of finca. It pays to pay for the employees of the finches. Lo malo también es el sol ”.
Even though Puerto Rico, one of the 50 states in the country, such as Texas and Pennsylvania, is paying a minimum wage of 7.25. The rest impresses with its minimum wage of 10 dollars, according to the Department of Labor.
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Sebastián from Mexico to Puerto Rico last week, as part of a first group of 21 workers from Chiapas working with the H-2A visa program for temporary agricultural workers. Take them to the Finca González.
“With this also helped me live that it is madre soltera. Tengo una hermanita de 14 años ”, says the journalist.
“Logical as it is”
The economist José J. Villamil indicates that the labor market in Puerto Rico “is dysfunctional”.
Part of the problem, according to him, is that poverty is a regional economy of the United States.
“There is a large difference in salaries between the island and other states, for a poor worker is relatively easy to go to the United States and benefit from a higher altitude”, wrote in a column on Monday in the local diary El Nuevo Día.
Another factor in the “dysfunction” are the pandemic bonuses, dice.
“Obviously, the attractiveness of working for $ 7.25 is reasonable and it is logical that it is sea”, writes the expert toe.
Hector Cordero, president of the Puerto Rican Agricultural Association, commented last week on the NotiUno 630AM radio that 1,000 to 1,500 bracerers are needed in the island and that there is a violation of the Honduran group.
Carlos González, the owner of the finch of 375 acres that lives in his name, accuses his compatriots of “losing the culture of work”.
However, it recognizes that federal aid is not the sole responsibility of the Workers’ Union.
Puerto Rico was hit in the last years by two hurricane category quadrants and a series of earthquakes that aggravated the financial crisis that hit the island from a decade ago.
And the lie, “with the pandemic, not to mention”, González added.
Due to the aesthetic perpetuo estado of the crisis, the 3.1 million pioneer service is 14.3% respect for 2010, the Censo estadounidense.
“Everywhere you look today, the tide of protectionist sentiment is flowing.”
But “this situation is not now”, added. “It is historic and the source of our colonial situation.”