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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:19 PM Feb 2017

Trump Winery begs Labor Dept to hire more foreign workers over Americans for second time in 3 months

Source: RawStory



ERIN CORBETT
16 FEB 2017 AT 18:57 ET

Eric Trump’s Virginia winery is seeking permission for the second time in three months to hire foreign workers, BuzzFeed News reports. The petition for foreign labor comes despite President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to put Americans back to work.

According to a petition to the Department of Labor that was posted online on Thursday, the Trump Winery seeks to hire 23 workers for the following positions: “Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse.”

Trump Vineyard Estates, LLC is looking to hire the workers under the federal H-2 visa program at a rate of $11.27 per hour. The H-2 visa program provides temporary work visas, allowing US employers to hire foreign laborers. This most recent petition is the second petition filed by the Trump Winery since Dec. 2, 2016, which sought to hire six foreign workers.

According to the petition, the job description notes workers would have to work in weather with temperatures as low as 10 degrees while “on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-winery-begs-labor-dept-to-hire-more-foreign-workers-over-americans-for-second-time-in-3-months/

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Trump Winery begs Labor Dept to hire more foreign workers over Americans for second time in 3 months (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
No surprise NastyRiffraff Feb 2017 #1
The stuff probably tastes like piss anyway (it does have the Trump name on it, after all). tenorly Feb 2017 #2
And I bet it's a nice yellow wine too 47of74 Feb 2017 #6
Goes well with Chlamydia, so they say. tenorly Feb 2017 #7
Lmao. jeanmarc Feb 2017 #13
GIGANTIC hypocrites. democratisphere Feb 2017 #3
What's he worried about? teezy Feb 2017 #4
I believe the Maralago staff are 90% foreign as well? (no link, but have seen news about that). n/t Leghorn21 Feb 2017 #5
Here in CA they have viticulture apprenticeship programs Liberty Belle Feb 2017 #8
Kand REC riversedge Feb 2017 #9
Give me $18-20 per hour, and I'll work there. christx30 Feb 2017 #10
baka yaro yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #11
I'd like to see Eric on his feet in a bent position for hours. JudyM Feb 2017 #12
So the Trump regime is exempt from keeping jobs in America, only other companies have to do so. GAH iluvtennis Feb 2017 #14
Here's the petition...I'm off to send it to Breitbart Leghorn21 Feb 2017 #15
Naturally. 'Foreign labor is evil', 'we want to hire more foreign labor'. rec, nt. Mc Mike Feb 2017 #16
The reviews of Trump Wine are in, and they're not great jmowreader Feb 2017 #17

tenorly

(2,037 posts)
2. The stuff probably tastes like piss anyway (it does have the Trump name on it, after all).
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:26 PM
Feb 2017

Which is a shame because the Virginia foothills produce some surprisingly good Rieslings.

If you enjoy wine, try Williamsburg Wineries' Governor's White sometime. Very nice indeed.

teezy

(269 posts)
4. What's he worried about?
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:30 PM
Feb 2017

No need to hire foreign workers when the forthcoming concentration camps will have them laboring for free.

Ugh, I can't even deal with this anymore.

Liberty Belle

(9,528 posts)
8. Here in CA they have viticulture apprenticeship programs
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:51 PM
Feb 2017

through local community colleges -- the classes are very popular as they lead to paying jobs in vineyards, and there are many in our area.

So it's just bullshit for Drump to say he can't find American workers. Don't have trained vineyard employees? Then start a training program!

christx30

(6,241 posts)
10. Give me $18-20 per hour, and I'll work there.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:58 PM
Feb 2017

It's not that Americans aren't willing to do the work. Just that we're not willing to do it for those low wages.

Leghorn21

(13,520 posts)
15. Here's the petition...I'm off to send it to Breitbart
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 12:37 AM
Feb 2017

And I, too, would LOVE to see Uday bent over for hours standing in the mud, and I mean endless miserable soaking wet HOURS ON END

Job Order Record - Case H-300-17039-274277
Job Registry Record ID:
109194 
ETA Case Number:
H-300-17039-274277 
Case Type:
H-2A 
Job Title:
Vineyard Farmworker 
SOC (ONET/OES) Occupation Code:
45-2092 
SOC (ONET/OES) Occupation Title:
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 
Primary Crop:
Grapes 
Full-Time Position (Yes/No):
Yes 
Start Date of Work:
04/03/2017 
End Date of Work:
10/27/2017 
Case Status:
ACTIVE 
Date of Inactivation:
07/16/2017 
Number of Workers Requested:
23 
Employer Legal Business Name:
Trump Vineyard Estates, LLC 
Trade Name/DBA:
N/A 
City:
Charlottesville 
State/Territory:
Virginia 
ZIP Code:
22902 
Employer FEIN:
 
NAICS Code:
111332 
NAICS Title:
Grape Vineyards 
Employer Application Type:
Individual Employer 
Attorney or Agent's Last Name:
Whitley 
Attorney First Name:
Elizabeth 
Attorney Middle Name:
D. 
Attorney Law Firm/Business Name:
MAS LABOR H-2A, LLC 
Attorney Law Firm FEIN:
 
Minimum Education:
None 
Training Required:
No 
Employment Experience Required:
Yes 
Worksite City:
Charlottesville 
Worksite County:
Albemarle 
Worksite State/Territory:
Virginia 
Worksite ZIP Code:
22902 
Multiple Worksites:
No 
Unit of Pay (per):
11.27 to per Hour 
Additional Wage Information:
Please note, in light of the Department of Labor's position that where an employer has staggered dates of need, the employer must file a separate application for each date of need, Trump Vineyard Estates, LLC has already filed one or more earlier applications reflecting a portion of their regularly recurring cumulative labor need. 
Date of Filed by NPC:
02/09/2017 
Date of Acceptance by NPC:
02/16/2017 
Date Posted on Public Job Registry:
02/16/2017 
Job Order Notes:
 

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
17. The reviews of Trump Wine are in, and they're not great
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 06:14 PM
Feb 2017
http://vinepair.com/wine-blog/we-tried-some-bottles-from-donald-trumps-virginia-winery/

The wine director at a Michelin-starred Manhattan restaurant and a Brooklyn-based wine writer sampled four of Eric's wines.

Traditional Method Blanc de Blancs, $24: "pretty delicious," but doesn't know what it wants to be...it's made like a Champagne but it seems more like a Prosecco. (Later, the wine director calls this a "porch pounder" - something to sit out on the porch on a hot Virginia night and get sloshed on.)

Viogner, $24: "You know when you walk through the department store and they’re spraying perfume and you accidentally walk through it?" Their least favorite of the four.

Meritage, $20: "It tastes really cheap. It's also just really boring. Like, painfully boring."

New World Reserve, $30: "It tastes expensive but it has no soul."

This may be what happens when a man who doesn't drink alcohol tries to get into the business of making it. IIRC Trump Vodka wasn't that great either.
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