I don’t know about the trucking industry, but in the tech industry they do layoffs on the one hand and then with the other claim there’s worker shortages that they can only fulfill with h1-b. The undercurrent to that is they just replace domestic with international labor for less money.
Yeah the “trade group” mentioned is the American Trucking Association, members are all companies (see “Member Types” at https://www.trucking.org/join-american-trucking-associations) so like you said, this is just corporations wanting to pay drivers less and probably do union busting and such.
Of course it sucks for the workers who have been on these visas. And people from Latin America deserve to be able to get jobs in the US that are good paying since they are the subjects of US imperialism. But I feel like it isn’t crazy hard to find people to drive trucks.
Also the language used by the State Department to justify it is gross white supremacist nonsense.
“As we have seen with recent deadly accidents, foreign truckers can pose risks to American lives, U.S. national security, and foreign policy interests,” the State Department spokesperson said.
Never miss an opportunity to promote your ideology I guess.
It’s the same shit chuds say about foreign Uber drivers in Poland
Ironically, it’s the same things chuds say about Polish and Romanian drivers in western Europe
The “trucker shortage” is manufactured by the companies. Any shortage that does exist is because real wages for truck drivers have at least halved since the 80’s
