04/04/2015 San Quintin
Protesters were standing on top of the highway center-line, and clustered on the shoulders of Mex 1 holding fluorescent signs saying in Spanish WE REFUSE THE OFFER OF A ONE-DOLLAR PER DAY RAISE. 2k...
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qtla9111 wrote:
OTOH, I've never seen anyone complain about paying for cheap produce or offer to pay double so that the workers could have higher wages. Maybe all the ex-pats in Mexico will stop eating fresh produce for the next year in protest.
There are always choices, but Americans and Canadians are too short-sighted and indifferent to their own future. This is why our own economy has been shrinking for the last 15-20 years. I always check for alternatives before buying something that is not made in Canada or US - not fresh produce, of course, here we don't have choice if it doesn't grow in our area. If expats in Mexico were given a choice to buy from growers that don't use slave labor, I'm sure some people would opt to pay more. But this a pure hypothesizing, Mexico is what it is.
