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re: Crawfish peeling plants are empty of workers, all hope lost - Here we Go!! $$$$$
Posted on 3/12/26 at 9:58 am to Churchill
Posted on 3/12/26 at 9:58 am to Churchill
quote:As CrawDude said earlier in this thread:
We need a local hero to invent one and capitalize.
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Mechanical crawfish peeling machinery has been developed and patented over the past 4 decades, but none have been perfected & adopted by the industry.
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Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:01 am to The Baker
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I don't have to know how to operate a peeling machine to understand
they don't peel with machines
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all industries should be supplementing a portion of lost labor with this. You're gonna want the next generation to inherit the business.
The peeling plant owner's kids will inherit the business if they want - has nothing to do with hiring HS kids when the actual timing of when they can work doesn't coincide with how the business needs to be run
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Sounds like the industry is going to have to adapt and offer higher wages for boudreaux and thibodeaux.
yea because $20- $30/hr is not a livable wage
There won't be a govt shutdonw this Nov and they'll get their visas for next year or all these workers will get rolled in to H2A program
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:02 am to Defenseiskey
We don’t need unlimited migrant labor. We need revised immigration laws. Processing/Peeling plants should be considered H2A with the farm migrant workers.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:02 am to Classy Doge
Step 1: Heavily cut social welfare programs that incentivize americans to sit on their couch and collect a paycheck
Step 2: Hire american workers that now need to get off their coach and actually become a contributing member of society
Step 2: Hire american workers that now need to get off their coach and actually become a contributing member of society
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:07 am to UpToPar
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Step 1: Heavily cut social welfare programs that incentivize americans to sit on their couch and collect a paycheck
Step 2: Hire american workers that now need to get off their coach and actually become a contributing member of society
Yes, that is the correct thought process, but there is even less support for that then modernizing our immigration laws.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:07 am to Shexter
It is because Americans would rather do drugs and live off the government than work.
And the children of the owners went to college and aint peeling no fricking crawfish.
This is what we have built in America.
And the children of the owners went to college and aint peeling no fricking crawfish.
This is what we have built in America.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:11 am to DoUrden
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Owners do not want to pay Americans at least minimum wage to do it.
This is bullshite. Earl will pay Jose $10/hr if he shows up on time not high off his arse.
He won't pay Jamal $10 to show up late high as a kite every shift.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:11 am to Midtiger farm
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they don't peel with machines
Conveyor belts, boiling vats, forklifts, w/e
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yea because $20- $30/hr is not a livable wage
It is.
Total myth you can't find people to work for that.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:12 am to SWLA92
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We don’t need unlimited migrant labor. We need revised immigration laws. Processing/Peeling plants should be considered H2A with the farm migrant workers.
You'll never get that through with Higgins in office. Dude sits on his thumbs all day and is basically a mascot.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:13 am to SlowFlowPro
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These legal workers are paid better than decent (and better than the comparable wages the Americans not applying are receiving)
This is something we agree on, the legal workers here on visas are getting paid.
In some of these scenarios you got to pay them more so they don't go somewhere else. Good help is hard to find.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:15 am to Shexter
A lot of people in here don't know much about what goes on for the Visa workers. They are paid, housed, and given a vehicle to get to and from lol. When you add all that up, it's not bad money for the small towns they live in. But I wouldn't expect most of the people in here to realize that.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:15 am to greenbean
You made the point yourself... Americans who would do this work are lazy, and are because they have all the entitlement programs supporting them. Reducing the entitlements would make more Americans find jobs. Employers will find a wage these people are willing to work for, and we will have more Americans employed and less people living on welfare.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:23 am to UpToPar
quote:
Step 1: Heavily cut social welfare programs that incentivize americans to sit on their couch and collect a paycheck
Step 2: Hire american workers that now need to get off their coach and actually become a contributing member of society
Because we’ll be able to snap our fingers and have all that in line for next season.
Have you paid attention to politicians?
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:26 am to ragincajun03
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Step 1: Heavily cut social welfare programs that incentivize americans to sit on their couch and collect a paycheck
At this point just let them work these jobs while receiving snap/welfare, with the added stipulation their job income is taxed.
that has to be cheaper and better for the labor market than constantly importing foreigners.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:33 am to Midtiger farm
If the farmers have to rely on subsidies and government help to get workers then maybe they are doing the wrong business. Just sell them live. But you won't do that because you got to have your f350s and your two-story houses. You can't live like a normal man and have you normal truck and normal house. You're spoiled
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:34 am to Shexter
People that do peel are not paid by hr, they are paid by the pound of meat they peel, and that is not a lot of $$$ . Had a guy try it and after working 8 hrs. only made $ 25, the pay is like .25 per lb of meat, so he never went back
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:36 am to Defenseiskey
Oh I know. I tried to get his office to help me in mid December get my H2A contract expedited but both his offices in LC and Lafayette were closed til after the 1st of the year. This was right after they had been off for the government shutdown.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:37 am to Shexter
People that do peel are not paid by hr, they are paid by the pound of meat they peel, and that is not a lot of $$$ . Had a guy try it and after working 8 hrs. only made $ 25, the pay is like .25 per lb of meat, so he never went back
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:37 am to The Baker
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Total myth you can't find people to work for that.
at one point he said you couldn't find people at $75/hr
In rural america, $20/hr is great money. The job has to be very shitty for there not to be hundreds of applications.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 10:39 am to TigerMyth36
I wish the clown who downvoted wasn't such a pansy arse coward. How about explaining why they shouldn't have to work or volunteer?
I guess that pansy arse would really love my welfare food option which is beans, rice and milk and not a single thing more than that.
I guess that pansy arse would really love my welfare food option which is beans, rice and milk and not a single thing more than that.
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