Some people have a problem with the fact that Donald Trump doesn’t staff up his own resorts exclusively with American citizens. Others are more bothered by the hypocrisy:
President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida has asked permission to hire 70 foreign workers this fall, attesting — in the middle of the White House’s “Made in America Week” — that it cannot find qualified Americans to serve as cooks, waiters and housekeepers.
Those requests were made to the Department of Labor in recent days and posted online Thursday. The for-profit club, where Trump spent numerous weekends this spring, asked permission to hire 15 housekeepers, 20 cooks and 35 waiters.
In addition, Trump’s golf club in nearby Jupiter, Fla. asked permission to hire six foreign workers as cooks. The applications to the Department of Labor are a first step in the process of applying for H-2B visas, which would allow the clubs to bring in foreigners for temporary work between October and next May.
Should Trump try harder to find American cooks, housekeepers and waiters? Couldn’t he post on Twitter that he’s seeking qualified applicants and fill these positions easily? I think that would probably work, don’t you?
In fact, it looks like he has to make some kind of effort.
Now, the Labor Department — which reports to Trump — must make decisions that will affect two for-profit business that the president still owns.
The next step, a Department of Labor spokesman said, is that the two clubs must take steps to try to recruit American workers for these jobs. That often involves placing help-wanted ads in local newspapers and contacting former workers. If those efforts are unsuccessful, then Trump’s clubs can ask for the Department of Labor to certify that it has tried and failed to hire Americans. After that, the Trump clubs can ask the Department of Homeland Security to issue visas for workers it has found in other countries.
Maybe we could start small and instead of building a wall thousands of miles long on the Mexican border we can just put up some barbwire fencing around Mar-a-Lago and his Jupiter joint.
I don’t have a problem with people hiring foreign workers but if Trump would tweet less about about Mika Brzezkinski and his desire to obstruct justice and more about these job openings, I’m fairly certain that hiring foreign workers wouldn’t be necessary in this case.
I sent a note to the FL Dem Party. If they want to do something, they should be able to find 70 or 140 unemployed persons to do these jobs. They should show up in the parking lot of Mar-a-lago with those applications. Of course, none should be illegals. Can they do it? Will they do it?
Every time I see you use it I will troll rate it. Booman has been clear it is unacceptable. Others have explained why it is offensive and yet you insist on using it which makes you a troll.
If you truly wanted to have a robust discussion about immigration policy you would stop using it. The fact that you don’t tells me you are here only to troll.
One of our former regulars was fond of the phrase “illegal is not a noun.” Thankfully, I suspect most of the current regulars and lurkers get it. Those who don’t should be shunned – they are, like you say, just trolling.
I agree with you, but still ….
Teh [sic] funny. That dataguy could comment without trolling staggers the imagination. The man lives to troll, it seems.
Eh, once in a while he says something worthwhile, as long as Those People can’t be even tangentially dragged into it.
Is there a union down there for these types of service employees? Force Trump to hire union workers. Hahahaha.
SEIU Florida.
This seems blindingly obvious — all he has to do is offer a decent wage. How hard is that?
Whyever would he do that? He always stiffs hirelings — offers small compensation, then chisels them out of even that, and shakes his lawyers at them if they dare to complain.
Trump hires Romanians for these jobs.A country of white blonds.No doubt he could find 41 blond Floridians but that would scream racial discrimination. This way he can dodge that and have staff with an exotic accent besides. Its like a cruise.
I got a different impression of Trump’s problem with hiring American workers in his Florida resorts when I was looking at it last summer: starting with the fact that unlike 100 other Palm Beach County resorts and hotels,
What do you think is the difference between the workers Trump Organization imports from Romania and the eager job seekers in South Florida? Skin color. More, including pix, in the old post, at my place.
My guess is this is not necessarily about Trump’s personal racism as much as that of the (Chinese/Russian/Arab) customers (don’t yell at me about this, I’ve been living around the NYC Chinese community for years and I know something about rich old folks from the People’s Republic).
how does it work again? (If indeed he hasn’t already made that observation re: this epitome of hypocrisy and conflict of interest — he may well have.)
What’s notably absent from these requirements?
Hint: “[something something] increased incentives offered to American prospective employees, e.g., higher pay, benefits [something something]”
Bigger hint: Supply, demand.