RBC hires foreign workers in canada!

[ajl]

I will. Have you collected agristability or agri-invest? Sold
grain for ethanol? Lets face it: the ethanol industry is
merely subsidized surplus disposal. Have you inherited land
from family? Full disclosure: I have benefited from agri
invest but am aware it is tax dough.

[Hopperbin]

True we have all benefitted and sometimes cursed subsidization, something that I see coming to an end as we see investors pocketing 10 percent per year profits. Expect it all to come to an end. AJL that all has nothing to do with migrant workers.
I think I read somewhere that 15 percent of those migrant workers per year get their permanent residence so a lot of them want to live here. Medicare, welfare, dental, the list goes on.

[farmaholic]

ajl: Nothing from Agstability since the
name change(did get CAIS once-frost
year). AgInvest-of course. No ethanol
wheat. Inherit the farm(and paying life
insurance on parent to even the score
with siblings), but would have to say
earned it--did something as soon as was
able to and built on it.

Sorry, but I still don't see the
connection between slackers not wanting
to work and immigrant's willingness to
work and the fact I benefited from the
industry I chose to be part of.

I have personal experience(nephews and
their cousins) with the comment I made
earlier. These guys seem to think they
are above certain jobs or minimum wage
when they have done nothing to EARN a
"certificate of anything" or stayed at a
job long enough to not be embarrassed to
include it on a resume. If I was a
prospective employer and saw these
resumes--red flag!! So, I am not
blaming the immigrants for taking the
jobs our citizens won't.

I just want to understand your point, I
am trying to make mine clear...

[Horse]

Farmaholic
If you was to find one of those basement bums you mentioned, thatwas living in the equilivent slum most of these migrants are and offered to pay 10 times as much as the worst job on the block and throw in a 6 or eight mo paid exotic holiday I think you would have lots of them rolling out.
Then there is those that pay and then charge , for rent food management fees and other little things that said worker cant complain about or home they go. Sure most still make a lot more than they could at home but dosent our oil workers that go overseas get a hell of a lot more than at home?
Now I am like you I am not painting everyone who uses forigen workers with the same brush but there are a lot of shisters out there and a good deal of them are farm operators.

[farmaholic]

Point taken.

[Hopperbin]

Horse there are no grain farms hiring foreign workers other than exchange students etc. as far as we know correct? Vegetable farmers, market garden farms, u'picks, honey farmers, green houses all yes. but those are all low paying jobs basically minimum wage.

[farmaholic]

The techy cellar dwellers should be
adequately equipped to operate the new
computerized equipment if they would
surface. And actually knew what it was
used for.

Agreed Hopper: Immigrant workers are
more common on the labor intensive farms
you mentioned. Labor costs for grain
farms were discussed on here a while
back. Some farm machinery dealerships
have some immigrant mechanics as well,
who may also be in a bit of a hostage
situation....

[SASKFARMER3]

Farmaholic you did read the article didn't you? It said the RBC fired Canadians and hired foreign workers to replace them, no where did it say lazy ass punks living in their parents basement who don't want to work that's another issue.
Also yes vegetable farms in Manitoba use Mexicans to work in the gardens all summer.
My point is sooner or later some genius is going to get the government of Canada to allow Canadian Chinese companies to bring in migrant workers for short term because they cant find qualified workers in Canada. Then they will pay these workers peanuts and no rights because their not Canadian. Its coming just not to many can see it.

[Kodiak]

Factoid. RBC is not hiring foreign workers. It is contracting services with another company. Yes, that service may have been previously done by its own employees, but the company had decided to contract it out. In this case the company providing the service is off shore.

Have any of us sold grain which is ulimatley processed outside of Canada? Bought anything that wasn't produced or manufactured in Canada? Point is the world ecomony thrives because of international trade. Who among us wants to put up trade walls and barriers around the county?

[Burbert]

Banking is fun in Comedia, compared ta
shovelling grain. Low, low, low pay in
both fields though Fharperenritz, eh!!!