glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Just seen a prog about all the migrant workers stranded in dubai without work
Workers wanting more than Managers
- Thread starter Devil's advocate
- Start date
- Location
- Shropshire
What’s the reason behind that then
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
No flights, no tourists no money
Hell of a work ethic though.
- Location
- Shropshire
Oh yer pure machine of a man I do a night milking there and he’s sharp out every time doesn’t look buggered or over worked one bit keeps his own hand scraper by his caravan jet washes it every night as says the other staff don’t look after them
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
I don't think it was great money though was it so perhaps it was long overdue?
It would be interesting to see their rate, roster and hours worked to see how good a deal it is.
Fonterra's tanker drivers were always some of the very best paid drivers here but over the years a lot of other companies have caught up and offer non rotating shift work. Oddly enough Fonterra have found it harder to get drivers in recent times.
I wonder if the two are connected?
- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
If I was doing 3 milking a day 7 days a week I would want more than £1,260 week. He deserves every penny good on him.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
I’ve always saud the day will come when manual workers will earn more than paper Shufflers. No disrespect to managers as they have usually worked their way up the food chain. I see no reason that a good hard working man can’t earn a paycheck the same size as the man that tells him wat to do.
Ivorbiggun
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- Location
- Norfolk
When will sprayer drivers get paid what their worth for doing the job. Given the.
Health implications.
Long unsociable hours.
The stress.
The pressure.
The responseability.
No home and social life.
servicing and maintaining 300 grand machine so it’s turn key ready.
Never being unable to plan anything outside work from February to November.
when you do get time off, you end up spending the time looking at the forecast for the next lot of spraying.
All this for just over the minimum wage.
Health implications.
Long unsociable hours.
The stress.
The pressure.
The responseability.
No home and social life.
servicing and maintaining 300 grand machine so it’s turn key ready.
Never being unable to plan anything outside work from February to November.
when you do get time off, you end up spending the time looking at the forecast for the next lot of spraying.
All this for just over the minimum wage.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Sounds like you need to renegotiate your wages to reflect your input and dedication to the farm.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
No furlough for the world's poor
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
I have a man that drives for me during spring seeding to bring seed and fertilizer to the field and again at harvest time hauling grain back to the farm. He’s semi retired and although pretty fit and willing I try to limit his hours to keep him keen on helping and not burn him out. I pay him above going rate in cash and there are fringe benefits too. Finding good reliable help when needed is vital. Wife was a bank manager before we married and my driver gets more than she did per hour. She asked why and I told her it’s because it’s not weekends off. Dusty. Hot,early mornings late nights and lots Of bad language when things go wrong. Very far from the banking world.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I think the one thing we learned during lockdown, was that a lot of the minimum wage manual jobs are indispensable and the country grinds to a halt without them, however, a lot of the well paid employees when they went on furlough or worked from home caused inconvenience but the country continued to function. I think there needs to be a recalibration of wage rates and remuneration to reflect this, but as society opens up again everyone is conveniently forgetting who was indispensable.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
The other thing, if you do a manual job, it can take a toll on your body (reading a fencing job thread on here, a contractor said that after 10 years fencing his body was knackered) so manual wages should reflect that, where as an office based manager would not have that physical toll from work so could easily continue to 67
Jasper
Member
I’ve seen on here many times people saying that the prices they received were better back in the late seventies early eighties than they are now but back then farm workers wages were really bad nearly everyone rented or lived in a tied cottage and got treated badly . I know a few places that if it wasn’t for a couple of good conscientious workers the places would fall apart maybe it’s about time thy got well rewarded for there efforts
H200GT
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- Location
- NORTH WALES
I fear that a big economic rebalance isn't far away. There is currently a lot of covid money in the economy thats pushing up inflation and commodity prices almost beyond control. It can’t continue indefinitely and ti me it unfortunately has a 2008 feeling about it all over again.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
My son has a harvest job on minimum wage. He got his first paypacket the other day and was really pleased. Luckily for him he has no rent and i bought him a car so his expenses are minimal but we were wondering how anyone with a couple of kids and rent and transport would manage. Jeff Bezos is off into space because he has more money than he can ever spend yet the future of his workers is a bit victorian.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I have known that for years.
Lorry drivers
Farmers and farmeorkers
Fishermen
Etc etc
All indispenible
Unlike all the penpushers
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Get the grain price up to £600 and there eill be jobs and better wages galore
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
No. Just a lot of hungry very angry people.