Pick For Britain: UK workers needed as foreign workers flown into UK amid crisis in farming sector
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ska invita
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ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
what nutrients are lacking in a vegetarian diet?
Treacle Toes
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TopCat
Putin fanboy
As a rule they dont recruit uk workers.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
If that's the criteria better round it up to 69110.
nyxx
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There was some kinda call out for ppl to apply
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
TopCat
Putin fanboy
what came of it
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hiraethified
I'm not entirely convinced that merging these two threads was the greatest idea, but I am at your bidding and I have tried to create a bit of a Frankenstein thread title that will hopefully stop someone making the same 'mistake' as me.
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hiraethified
Anyone doing that on this thread will be swiftly warned and booted off the thread.
I doubt they wake up thinking fuck me I fancy a day of pain in a field either.
ska invita
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Yeah so 69k workers still needed. I dont think those 6 charter planes will be the last of them.
Though as I think has been alluded to, an outbreak of C19 within the shitty living conditions is not going to be good
Though as I think has been alluded to, an outbreak of C19 within the shitty living conditions is not going to be good
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I read somewhere that these harvesters will be expected to adhere to social distancing rules. Kinda hard on a plane, no? 
ska invita
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Yeah...guess how many seats on a 737 ...near enough 150. Cosy. (I expect it would be a 737 sized thing)I read somewhere that these harvesters will be expected to adhere to social distancing rules. Kinda hard on a plane, no?
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Ignore Marty, he thought the title was Prick for Britain and came running.
nyxx
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Your guess is as good as mine..
anecdotally there seems to be a fair amount of ppl in my wider social network who applied and none of them got a reply.
ska invita
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Heres a thought...from what i understand the fruit picking season is in summer, and the vegetable picking end of summer/autumn.
If people sign up as pickers now whilst being furloughed workers < a big part of the appeal that Pick For Britain is being based on - there's a high chance the people will be going back to their old jobs in those periods, as lockdown restrictions are eased off however temporarily. This might happen relatively last minute, leaving the recruiters short staffed and without as much time to fill the quota
If people sign up as pickers now whilst being furloughed workers < a big part of the appeal that Pick For Britain is being based on - there's a high chance the people will be going back to their old jobs in those periods, as lockdown restrictions are eased off however temporarily. This might happen relatively last minute, leaving the recruiters short staffed and without as much time to fill the quota
Gramsci
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European governments scramble to find farm workers for harvest
Coronavirus brings continent’s seasonal migration patterns to a halt
I see the paywall has come up. Basically the FT article discusses how UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy farming industry all use East European labour for harvesting. Spain and Italy also use north African. Heard that in Spain and Italy Africans arent treated well. All these western European countries have the same problem due to the health crisis.
This is a Europe wide problem.
People coming from the poorer Eastern European countries mainly.
The article shows that across Europe Western farming industry has based it business model on cheap flexible labour who it has no commitment to.
What this pandemic shows is the inequality that has become entrenched across Europe which suits business.
This isnt about workers of individual countries won't do the work. This line of argument really winds me up.
If any good comes out of this pandemic its to shows that the economy can't go on like this.
Larry Elliot in Guardian has said this:
Will coronavirus shock the global economy into long-term thinking?| Larry Elliott
Too many people were only hanging on by their fingertips, and that was unsustainable, says the Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott
As he points out the workers here have not recovered from the last economic recession in terms of wages.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
They have started to introduce machines to harvest asparagus.
Gramsci
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Cambridge univerity are working on this. Lettuce is a difficult vegetable to pick so developing would mean other crops could be picked.
As agribusiness has had access to pool of cheap labour the incentive to transfer this backbreaking work to robots is low.
In the video noticed the human pickers were under pressure as had to fill machine behind them. This is semi atomated already using people to fill the moving machine. So not only backbreaking but like factory work. The pace of work is set by thr machine.
Robots can also work 24/7 . They reckon it will reduce food waste as robot can learn to pick only ripe crop. Then go over same field to pck again.
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klang
klang
it's a 1 euro job in Germany.They have started to introduce machines to harvest asparagus.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
What does this mean, 1 euro for every x of asparagus or 1 euro an hour or??
davesgcr
Reading books
We foolishly went (paid) strawberry picking in the mid 1970's as students in the Vale of Evesham , utter slavery and very poorly paid. Paid on results , and they would reject a picked tray with no feed-back. The camp site made a Festival camp site seem like utter luxery. So we organised a walk out. Made them sweat.
Picking broad beans was "marginally" better , no crawling around on the ground - we soon worked out that if you put a "base" of beans and a "wall" of beans inside the net, you could then rip up some plants , stuff them in - and get ahead in the productivity stakes.
I can totally understand the un-desirability of the job. Always looked for more amenable Summer work after that , bar and security work. Credit to those who did (and do) it....
Picking broad beans was "marginally" better , no crawling around on the ground - we soon worked out that if you put a "base" of beans and a "wall" of beans inside the net, you could then rip up some plants , stuff them in - and get ahead in the productivity stakes.
I can totally understand the un-desirability of the job. Always looked for more amenable Summer work after that , bar and security work. Credit to those who did (and do) it....
circleline
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Someone locally was saying there was a problem with the application website and you couldn't apply.
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klang
klang
people on unemployment benefits have to work for 1 euro / hour otherwise they may face sanctions.
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