This is the last article of the two-part series concerning labor rights.
The last issue titled "Should We Protect Labor Rights?" referred to the four-step approach in production.
The four-step approach benefited the entrepreneurs, the laborers, the financial lenders, and the suppliers of raw materials.
Most of the various elements of society were able to progress using a balanced four-step approach of producing goods and services.
The entrepreneurs, laborers, financial institutions, and raw material suppliers were all valuable cogs in the giant production wheel hub.
The eras of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century saw a vast migration of population mainly from Europe that resulted in an unbalanced supply of labor.
The unbalanced labor supply allowed the entrepreneurs to create a three-step approach of production by ignoring labor rights completely.
Another laborer immediately replaced a laborer that missed work because of illness.
The sick laborer was out of a job and wasn't entitled to any company health care benefits.
Sweatshops hired children to do adult type work at a minimum wage.
The three-step approach allowed the entrepreneurs to operate businesses without any regards to workers concerns.
The work force needed the government to step-in.
Laws were enacted to protect children and the rest of the work force as a whole.
Workers united together by forming labor unions.
The four-steps of production were temporarily in balance until the labor unions got too powerful and created their own abuses.
Recently, a massive importation of inexpensive labor has resulted in an imbalance between labor and the entrepreneurs.
Once again the entrepreneurs are singing, "Let's do the three-step approach".
Migration has resulted in both eligible and ineligible foreign workers.
Green cards and H-1B visas are examples of legal migration.
The United States issues a limited number of green cards that allow lawful permanent residency into this country.
The H-1B visa program allows U.
S.
employers to employ foreign guest workers in specialty occupations such as computer programmers.
The H-1B visa program allows highly skilled workers to migrate legally into the United States.
The entrepreneurs have abused the H-1B visa program.
The H-1B visas program has allowed 80% of those entering under the H-1 visa program to be workers with only average skills.
This has allowed the entrepreneurs to reduce their cost by reducing wages to the work force.
Thousands of skilled American workers with college degrees are forced to work for reduced wages or leave their field altogether.
Major corporations incorrectly insist the amount of workers they require to do the work doesn't exist in this country.
The reality is the companies can't amass the work force they want and at the price they want to pay without importing cheap labor masked as highly skilled foreign workers.
The entrepreneurs also make the most of hiring unskilled ineligible immigrants to work at reduced wages.
The entrepreneurs pull the old "Monkey see no evil, monkey hear no evil, and monkey speak no evil" routine concerning the hiring of illegal foreign workers.
A free government program called E-Verify is available online to any firm that wishes to utilize it to determine the correct immigration status of foreign workers.
E-Verify is over 98% accurate.
Arizona requires its employers to use the E-Verify program.
Tens of thousands of ineligible aliens have departed the state because E-Verify proved those foreign workers were not eligible for employment in the United States.
The state of Arizona has not suffered economically from the enforcement policy of requiring the verification of foreign workers eligibility.
E-Verify is also a fast method of verifying the eligibility of workers in this nation.
E-Verify can verify the status of a worker in only a few minutes.
Companies refusing to use E-Verify make false claims that the program is not effective and it takes up too much of the company's time to verify the eligibility status of the workers.
Both of the excuses are a bunch of hooey.
The real reason companies refuse to utilize E-Verify is because the companies have to pay more money to eligible workers.
The companies that hire ineligible workers and claim E-Verify is not effective or it is not fast enough are once again using the see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil routine.
The obvious solution is for government to control the oversupply of inexpensive foreign labor.
The government should require the entrepreneurs to use a program such as E-Verify to ensure foreign workers are truly eligible to work here.
The employers should face stiff fines and or imprisonment for not verifying foreign workers.
Also, the government should reduce the amount of H-1B visa issued by 80%.
Reducing the issuance of H-1B visas will allow highly skilled specialist to migrate here.
Perhaps, it is time for government to once again intervene between labor and entrepreneurs.
What do you think America? It is something for you to ponder over.