Next time you pick up your fast food, drop in to a gas station, or even do your banking, ask the new foreign worker who serves you how it's going. It's not going so good.
I agree, in general, but think some sectors, farming in particular, need the immigrant labour and in many instances in NS, the arrangements are fair, respectful and provide much needed wages for the workers and better skilled/more willing labour for the farmers. That said, those programs have a great deal of room for improvement including agency over-sight with annual working-condition interviews & subsequent public reports and farm assessments.
Also in all of the temporary situations there should and could be integrated avenues of permanent residency for workers and funded programs to encourage and support social/cultural interaction to the benefit of workers and rural communities.
Note that I said Large agricultural enterprise. Family farms like Noggin's Bishop family farm have woven workers into their family in a what I would call a clan style over a generation.
This is not that.
I'm referencing the opposite.
Likewise, I am not talking about family restaurants that for whatever reason need some help. I'm talking about Wendys MacDonalds et al.
That said, the principle is not different. If many small scale operations become addicted to the dope of Indentured Servants it is no different than the larger issue with the big box enterprises. It is equally imperative we help get them off that dope.
I agree, in general, but think some sectors, farming in particular, need the immigrant labour and in many instances in NS, the arrangements are fair, respectful and provide much needed wages for the workers and better skilled/more willing labour for the farmers. That said, those programs have a great deal of room for improvement including agency over-sight with annual working-condition interviews & subsequent public reports and farm assessments.
Also in all of the temporary situations there should and could be integrated avenues of permanent residency for workers and funded programs to encourage and support social/cultural interaction to the benefit of workers and rural communities.
For sure.
Note that I said Large agricultural enterprise. Family farms like Noggin's Bishop family farm have woven workers into their family in a what I would call a clan style over a generation.
This is not that.
I'm referencing the opposite.
Likewise, I am not talking about family restaurants that for whatever reason need some help. I'm talking about Wendys MacDonalds et al.
That said, the principle is not different. If many small scale operations become addicted to the dope of Indentured Servants it is no different than the larger issue with the big box enterprises. It is equally imperative we help get them off that dope.