JOBS/TRUMP FAMILY/IMMIGRATION: “Presidential candidate Donald Trump ran on the promise to bring jobs back to the US and called out companies that used foreign workers instead of Americans — but now his son’s Virginia winery is doing just that: asking the government for six workers to do seasonal work pruning grapevines.
The petition to the US Department of Labor from Trump Vineyard Estates, owned by the president-elect’s son Eric Trump, seeks temporary visas under the H-2A program for the foreign laborers who would work for about four months at the vineyard near Charlottesville doing a ‘variety of manual/equipment operation tasks in a vineyard operation.’
The application, filed Dec. 2, says the vineyard would pay the workers $10.72 an hour for work between January and June 2017.
The winery’s petition said the workers would be required to lift 80 pounds, would be exposed to ‘extreme’ temperatures and the job would involve ‘extensive walking’ and ‘frequent stooping.’
Trump’s winery also sought 19 temporary visas under the same program last spring. It also requested temporary visas in 2014 and 2015, ABC News reported.”
– Mark Moore, “Trump Winery is trying to hire foreign workers,” The New York Post, Dec 22, 2016,