11-10-2017, 04:27 AM
You characterize the employment of, otherwise unemployed, foreign workers - who are now able to support their families - as exploitation.
While it is entirely possible that the workers are being exploited -- someone should ask them how they feel about this -- the bigger problem is that the industry is exploiting loopholes to unfairly compete in the market: they don't have to pay minimum wage, or unemployment or worker's comp, or provide health insurance. How is that fair?
If it's okay to skip all the regulations "because offshore", then where's our exemption from the Jones Act? Freight barges are "offshore" too right?
While it is entirely possible that the workers are being exploited -- someone should ask them how they feel about this -- the bigger problem is that the industry is exploiting loopholes to unfairly compete in the market: they don't have to pay minimum wage, or unemployment or worker's comp, or provide health insurance. How is that fair?
If it's okay to skip all the regulations "because offshore", then where's our exemption from the Jones Act? Freight barges are "offshore" too right?