In the wake of the Swift meatpacking raids:

“They’re trying to staff up their plants and they’ve been raising their wages the past few weeks,” said United Food and Commercial Workers spokeswoman Jill Cashen. “To me, it’s an example that when you make the job more attractive you get a different kind of applicant.”

The AP tried hard to make it a racial issue (“Unions: Swift & Co. Hiring More Whites” — not that there’s anything wrong with that!), but what it really means is that there’s no such thing as jobs Americans won’t do.