(January 14, 2016 at 12:19 pm)dyresand Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 11:38 am)Drich Wrote: that's great! so may I ask why use migrant workers at all? why not simply staff from a day labor pool??
I'm asking because we both know that the labor laws are far less strict when it comes to treatment of workers and child labor laws. That is why people use and the government allows for 'migrant work' that is the key difference in that they are not subject to federal minimum wage requirements, OSHA protection, no workers comp laws, No over time requirements, or labor restrictions, child labor laws are far more liberal (10 year olds can be used in some crops) the list goes on and can be found on a official government site.. The point being I'm sure if you switched over to a labor ready or some other legit day labor company your migrant workers would funnel through them, and enjoy the federal protections this government mandates to every other field of work, rather than working for you directly without any type of federally mandated safety net..
All that said, Unless you do supply the whole country with everything a migrant worker is allowed to process, then I say my point stands. Because even if you (some micro farm) supplies even a large chain like whole foods with one product, the rest of the industry is indeed using migrant workers as far as the law will allow them to be used!
Owning another human being is immoral even if everyone agreed slavery is okay doesn't make it okay.
What if you were a slave you wouldn't like to get treated inhumanly slaves in biblical days and modern days
are treated sub human and even like trash.
What makes you think all slaves are treated inhumanely?
Joseph was a slave to Pharaoh and literally ruled all of Egypt. He was the most powerful person besides pharaoh himself.
Like wise if you have a child most of the world considers that child as being owned by it's parents. even if the western verbiage is different and we do not call them property, do we not still treat/restrict a child's behavior to one degree or another? In effect 'owning a child by action if not by decree?' Even if were to declare to own our children Does it mean we would treat them any differently?
Understand drysand what I am saying here is not a matter of whether it is ok to own a slave or not. What I am saying as we as a country would fall apart without the work of the slaves this country currently uses everyday! They are here and you could not live life without them!!! The only difference being 'soceity' does not own up to owning slaves which means they are not getting the protection the bible offers. In short because people like you will not accept that their lives are built on the backs of modern slaves, modern slaves are treated as bad if not worse than the chattle slaves of the 1700s