SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Lol, hippies usually expect you to 'volunteer' in exchange for a bunk in a draughty barn and three lentil meals a day.
Pick For Britain: UK workers needed as foreign workers flown into UK amid crisis in farming sector
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Lol, hippies usually expect you to 'volunteer' in exchange for a bunk in a draughty barn and three lentil meals a day.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Yup that and the peice work issue which allows dismissal and the posibility of a seven day week. This company is at least transparent and might even be one of the better ones. I wonder what the self isolation and sick pay schemes are like for those affrected by covoid symptons? No wonder these companies would rather deal with agencies and gangers.
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
A double blow to my town, the imported seasonal Eastern European workers keep all the hotels and guest houses afloat in the winter months
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
How are they paying for that?
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
no idea, I presume as some sort of work/agency package
Treacle Toes
Time
Lower rates for longer term bookings and I imagine them full of extra beds/overcrowded.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Can't imagine imagine what the take home pays going to be after that.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Interestingly, this has appeared on the BBC website recently
Fruit labourers: 'If you don't want to work like a slave, you're out'
This particular story is about migrant workers in southern Spain, but the conditions for eastern European fruit and veg pickers in Britain are similar, just with less sunshine.
Fruit labourers: 'If you don't want to work like a slave, you're out'
This particular story is about migrant workers in southern Spain, but the conditions for eastern European fruit and veg pickers in Britain are similar, just with less sunshine.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Well the supermarkets will agree to buy all of your apples @ x per lb then before harvest say we're doing a half price promotion so now we're going to pay y per lb. If you dont agree then good luck finding someone else to buy your apples before they rot.
Anyway I dont think there was ever a time where yer noble veg or fruit picker was setting their own wages through the farm labourers guild. The village children would be recruited. October holidays were 2 weeks because good luck getting children to attend school during tattie picking season. There are laws about child labour these days.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
That is not the workers' problem.
quimcunx said:
Absolutely not, but I think quimcunx was simply offering that as a fact of how gougingly the supermarkets operate, which is fair enough..
That doesn't stop the actual farmers being shit employers though, I fully agree with other posts in this thread about that..
As for that Guardian article from Saturday, I agree with ska invita and Artaxerxes that it was the headline that was utter shit. And also really misleading, because to me, the actual content was pretty informative and not consistent with what the headline was suggesting.
Best read in combination with that Balkan Insight that piece which The39thStep posted earlier up (page 7).
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'Just not true' we're too lazy for farm work, say frustrated UK applicants
Jobseekers take issue with pay and terms and allege farmers favouring migrant labour
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
From Viz (& the genius behind “Drunken Bakers” and “The Male Online”)
ska invita
back on the other side
A new piece here
www.theguardian.com
As I said before a lot of people signing up are furloughed, and what with the government about to push for people to go back to work that key picking season may still remain short-staffed
British farmers turn to homegrown force to bring in the harvest
With Covid-19 keeping eastern Europeans away, furloughed British workers are signing up to fill seasonal vacancies – but will there be enough of them?
As I said before a lot of people signing up are furloughed, and what with the government about to push for people to go back to work that key picking season may still remain short-staffed
ska invita
back on the other side
can anyone see what is happening now on this front?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I missed this post before. Jesus. And this is the German government, so rabidly anti-state aid that they'll push entire countries into the sea if they're even suspected of it, basically subsidising farmers paying sweatshop wages. Cunts.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I suspect that, on the quiet, Farage may not give a fuck about the British worker or the British farmer.
ska invita
back on the other side
i found an article in the FT from three weeks back
suggested pickers not at full capacity, working at 70% productivity, and not staying the course
however food is getting picked if not as much as normal
farmers saying they are hoping to break even this year, might make a loss
overall those farmers interviewed saying they'll lump it but please can government sort it for next year
interesting to see how long it will go on for, and if the millions of unemployed next year will make a difference to the picture
suggested pickers not at full capacity, working at 70% productivity, and not staying the course
however food is getting picked if not as much as normal
farmers saying they are hoping to break even this year, might make a loss
overall those farmers interviewed saying they'll lump it but please can government sort it for next year
interesting to see how long it will go on for, and if the millions of unemployed next year will make a difference to the picture
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
(Tip of the iceberg) foreign labour exploitation revealed
www.theguardian.com
Handwringing and prayers to follow
Revealed: Indonesian workers on UK farm ‘at risk of debt bondage’
As farms look further afield for labour, investigation finds Kent pickers saying they struggle to pay fees charged by unlicensed brokers
Handwringing and prayers to follow
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