I have traveled and stayed in the Northland for 20 years. Wake up resorts — haven’t you heard the unemployment is very high?
So, why are resorts still bringing in foreign employees? Doesn’t anyone watch the news and see people living in tents who have lost everything and want to work?
Aren’t these people good enough to live in employee housing and work or is it the employee housing is not fit? Maybe they aren’t willing to clean toilets and do yard work, or not willing to make the foreign workers’ wage. That’s a question for the workers and the owners – but has anyone asked?
It’s no different in Vegas, Chicago and New York, but I wouldn’t expect it so much here. Resorts I visited have interns from other countries and hear summer students are coming, and yet here there are Americans laid off. Will they be coming back to work also?
I understand everyone wanting seasonal workers so they don’t have to pay unemployment, but so many foreign students? All the small cabins that my family used to come up for are almost long-gone — now it’s condos, condos everywhere. They’ve priced themselves out of today’s economy.
Shame on you, Grand Marais, Tofte and Lutsen!
When things were booming and not enough people willing to do the work I could understand but not today.
Nanci Kobus
Greenwood, IN
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