• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    16 hours ago

    well, and the lower class left – working rights of locals being undermined by cheaper foreign labour is a less vocal part of the anti-immigration noise

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      15 hours ago

      Jobs moving abroad doesn’t really have anything to do with immigration though.

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          11 hours ago

          If you are being replaced by immigration workers who are prepared to accept low wages go report that to the relevant authorities because that’s illegal.

          It kind of sounds like you’re trying to shill for the racists, who absolutely do not have any kind of point.

          Hanging flags on lamps post does not make you a patriot, it just makes you an idiot.

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            7 hours ago

            People face loss of job security, and a highly diversified work force is less likely to unionize. Workers have everything to fear from foreign labour.

            The solution of course is to give every migrant worker legal status so that they can’t work less than minimum wage, but a) that will never fly here, and b) that only puts a cap on how low wages can go, without any path to raising them

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            10 hours ago

            Low wages aren’t illegal. Their point, which is valid whether you accept it or not, is that an increase in available labour drives down the cost of that labour. Why use a uk plasterer charging a premium when you have access to a hundred more who are happy to send a minimum wage back to their families in the eastern bloc?