kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

I remember the nl spin machine telling us a couple of years ago we were told that that the influx of foreign labour would be great for this country. well surprise surprise 11 months after employing cheap european labour our factory has just announced 26 redundancies (all of them english workers) and no extra overtime for the rest of us. well done new labour

Ember

I once worked overseas as foreign labour. I was paid the equivalent of a British wage (about 2.5 to 3 times the local rate). I loved it. The business went bankrupt in the end though!

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

You do realise that "good for the country" and "good for me" may not actually be the same thing, right?


M

jods

I'm sure he does. What might be upsetting him is that
"It is good for THEIR country (money sent home, benefits sponged etc etc)
therefore a net positive impact on the recipient economy
Bad for our country with a net negative impact. Costs of healthcare, housing, benefits, loss of indiginous indignant population income etc etc

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Fek all jobs around here now............all filled with eastern bloc immigrants and a few asylum seekers

Alcazar

Dracoro

kingofturds - how come your company is making redundancies? trade down? costs too high? something else? What business are you in?

Jonathan Davies

Move to France.

No UK government is going adopt a protectionist stance. You think the Tories would increase labour regulation?

pslewis

Market forces ............ someone will do your job cheaper than you will do it ...

The ONLY way to control the situation is to ensure that no-one CAN do your job cheaper and/or better than you can ...... but, of course, that takes effort and hard work - not something I see a great deal of these days

Pete

Brendan Hughes

I am foreign labour, and it's great thanks

rik1471

Is that cause you're banged up in the old folks home pi55ing yourself on an hourly basis?

ajm

We have a house full of slave labour Polish truck drivers .... it was cheaper to buy them a house and accomodate them than it was to employ lazy British equivalents.

and they can't drown like cockle pickers so its a winner!

John Catlin

I get far better service from the young ladies in the pub.

unclebuck

gotta admit I'm a net exporter of my skills ATM. If you are working in the Sates but still on UK wages (like I am) you are effectively quids in!!

UB

Chip

Factory by me laid off 40 workers a while ago. Few weeks later I see a bus load of immigrants walking into the same place every morning.

Chip

Adrian F

Go on to most building sites and it is over run with eastern european labour they will do the job for the fraction of what a UK worker wants and they top it up with benefits from the government paid for out of our taxes.

also their expectations of life style and H&S are much lower so will take risks to get a job done and be happy to go home to live in a fleapit bedsite with a another family.

It is a case of compete or be unemployed! just dont understand why we are importing labour then susbsidising it with Benefits to do really simple types of work and yet still paying for over a million unemployed?

unclebuck

Mate of mine is in the building trade. He's now employing Afghans as labourers. Cheap and hard working he says....

The Zohan

It is a short-sighted recipe for disaster IMHO