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procon

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1. Unfair labor practices.
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 11:50 AM
Sep 2016

With some boats able to legally game the system, others don't and if they pay fair wages to their workers their have a lower profit margin which makes them less competitive.

How did this happen? Cheap foreign workers take away good U.S. jobs, and fishing hauls in big money for the boat and the workers. No one in their right mind would look at this special carve out for some Hawaiian fishing boats and say it was fair and above board. High-ranking U.S. lawmakers and officials including US Senators, the Coast Guard, U.S. Attorneys, Customs and Border Protection are involved, or turning a blind eye to victims of human trafficking, and no is doing anything to stop it.

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