re: Video game testers attempt to organize a union, get laid off, cry shenanigans.

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So what is it that you do?

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Answer the question Roger.

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Do your nuts hurt? Seems like having 2 mentally ill lefties swinging on them all day would be painful.

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…Now those boats won’t tie up themselves, and those boots won’t get licked without you, so chop, chop!

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You post like a 10 year old.

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You're an economic simpleton.

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In sum, the bargaining power of U.S. workers is undercut when millions of unauthorized workers and guestworkers

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6% of the U.S. labor force—are underpaid by employers and cannot safely complain to the Department of Labor or sue employers that exploit them.

The Trump administration has pushed a bigoted and xenophobic narrative that pits immigrants against native-born workers under the false premise that the economy is a zero-sum game with a fixed number of jobs. This leads to predictably foolish and cruel policies—such as more and bigger worksite raids by ICE—that don’t improve conditions for workers but only serve to increase the power employers have over workers.28 A better and more humane response starts from realizing how much of today’s immigration policy is driven by low-road employers who aim to benefit at the expense of both migrants and U.S. workers. From this perspective, one can see that improving labor standards for unauthorized immigrants and guestworkers will lift the floor for all workers, which will increase bargaining power and raise wages.

The most transformative solutions require congressional action. Congress should pass legislation granting lawful permanent resident (LPR) status to the current unauthorized immigrant population; this would include recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and those who currently have temporary protected status. Granting LPR status to workers without status would raise their wages and improve labor standards for all similarly situated workers.29 Even if unauthorized immigrants were not granted LPR status through legislation but were at least provided with federal employment authorization documents by the Department of Homeland Security, their wages would rise significantly and economic outcomes would improve overall.30

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A recent comprehensive study conducted by a number of prominent scholars for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found that levels of immigration have only very small impacts on wages and employment.1 However, in certain local labor markets and industries where a significant share of workers are migrants who do not have access to worker protections and basic labor rights—either because they are unauthorized immigrant workers or because they are migrants employed through nonimmigrant, temporary work visa programs (i.e., “guestworkers”)—the migrant workers’ lack of rights makes it difficult for them to bargain effectively for decent wages, and their weak leverage spills over to undercut the leverage of U.S. workers—i.e., citizens and immigrants who are lawful permanent residents.

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Somehow you nimrods can’t quite figure out that wage increases are causing massive inflation, which means folks can’t pay for food, housing, etc.

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low wages that are not enough to live off of

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Millions of uneducated, unskilled workers puts extreme downward pressure on wages, luddite. Its economic law and doesn't change just because it triggers you

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Economic theory points to the importance of substitutability and, conversely, complementarity between different kinds of workers in determining the impact of immigration on the wages and employment of natives.4 Where immigrants and natives are substitutes, adverse wage and employment effects may result; the more closely immigrants’ skills and abilities match those of natives, the more adverse these effects are expected to be. This raises the issue of how empirical researchers measure skill and identify groups that are potentially in competition, as well as how they model the extent of substitutability between them. Thus, we consider these issues before delving into the empirical findings on the impact of immigrant inflows on natives and prior immigrants.

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Empirical research in recent decades suggests that findings remain by and large consistent with those in The New Americans (National Research Council, 1997) in that, when measured over a period of more than 10 years, the impact of immigration on the wages of natives overall is very small.

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