Arizona CEOs Push Senators Sinema, Kelly for Cheap Labor, AmnestyNeil Munro 26 Oct 2021
Construction CEOs in Arizona are pressuring Democratic Senators Krysten Sinema and Mark Kelly to back the Democrats’ wage-cutting amnesty in the pending reconciliation bill.
“As business leaders in Arizona, we write to urge you to champion pathways to citizenship … This action is urgently needed to address the acute labor shortage across the state,” said the business group, in an October 15 letter from the Arizona affiliate of the American Business Immigration Coalition.
If either of the two Senators oppose the Democrats’ amnesty, then it will fail in the evenly divided Senate. If the amnesty push fails, then Americans may get a tight labor market where the CEOs will be forced to share more of their revenues with their employees, including many native-born Latinos and legal-immigrant Latinos.
“Legalization and pathways to citizenship will help ease our labor shortage,” said the letter, signed by real-estate developers and construction CEOs, including Bob Worsley, a wealthy, pro-migration, former real estate investor and former Republican state senator.
The letter comes as a shortage of migrant workers has been forcing many Arizona CEOs to pay higher wages to their American employees.
For example, Azeconomy.org reports that wages for construction crews are up 8.3 percent from September 2020. Similarly, wages for workers in the leisure and hospitality sector are up by 6.8 percent compared to a year ago, says the site, which relies on data from the federal Bureau of Labor Studies.
Those gains are notable because most employees’ wages have grown slowly over the last year — the average gain is just 2.5 percent. Moreover, many Americans’ wages have declined slightly because inflation is raising the cost of housing, fuel, and food.
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