Thread: summer worker shortage on Cape Cod

State seeks to ease summer worker shortage on Cape Cod

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Boston (AP) -- The state is trying to help businesses on Cape Cod and the Islands find enough workers this summer amid growing fears of a seasonal worker shortage.

Labor and Executive Development Secretary Suzanne Bump announced plans Tuesday for a pair of hospitality industry job fairs this month in Westport and Hyannis.

The state is also sponsoring media ads about the job fairs, and stepping up efforts with local business leaders to recruit college and high school students to fill summer jobs.

The efforts extend beyond the Cape and Islands, to cities such as Fall River and New Bedford.

Many businesses in the tourist region rely on foreign workers to fill seasonal jobs, and fear a change in visa rules will leave fewer workers available this summer.


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They are finally making a step in the right direction. There are lots of unemployed high schoolers and young living near the Cape in the two former industrial towns New Bedford and Fall River. The resorts out on the Cape need to either provide for barracks at their locations or shuttle buses to take their workers from there to and from home. But it is a good idea to exhaust the region before looking for Brazilians, Eastern Europeans or Caribbeans.

Who used to work at those jobs before they bought in foreign workers? AMERICANS until they were crowded out!