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The Guardian’s open borders fetish is a betrayal of the working class and plays straight into the hands of the neoliberal capitalists it purports to fight. The economics is indisputable: continually increasing labour supply via immigration, and enabling employers to recruit workers from a global pool and to forgo training, necessarily reduces workers’ bargaining power and ergo wages growth. Fake left Guardian demands more low-wage migrants Leith van Onselen debates immigration on the Today Show Immigration lowers wages in the UK and Australia [embedded content]
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The Guardian’s open borders fetish is a betrayal of the working class and plays straight into the hands of the neoliberal capitalists it purports to fight.The Guardian’s open borders fetish is a betrayal of the working class and plays straight into the hands of the neoliberal capitalists it purports to fight. The economics is indisputable: continually increasing labour supply via immigration, and enabling employers to recruit workers from a global pool and to forgo training, necessarily reduces workers’ bargaining power and ergo wages growth. Fake left Guardian demands more low-wage migrants Leith van Onselen debates immigration on the Today Show Immigration lowers wages in the UK and Australia [embedded content]
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The economics is indisputable: continually increasing labour supply via immigration, and enabling employers to recruit workers from a global pool and to forgo training, necessarily reduces workers’ bargaining power and ergo wages growth.
Fake left Guardian demands more low-wage migrants
Leith van Onselen debates immigration on the Today Show
Immigration lowers wages in the UK and Australia