Oil Patch Businesses To Lose Foreign Help

19/09/2012 5 min
Oil Patch Businesses To Lose Foreign Help

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Episode Synopsis

Fast food restaurants, grocery stores and motels in North Dakota’s oil patch have come to rely on student workers from abroad, places like China, Eastern Europe and South America, because of the ongoing labor shortage. But the company that coordinates visas for those temporary foreign workers is canceling the program, leaving local businesses in the lurch. Black Gold Boom reporter Diane Richard has the story.