There is a difference between immigrants and temporary foreign workers, remember that. immigrants have it slightly better. The other ones are brought in just to be exploited and then shipped home after the work is done and often have to pay huge sums just to get here. Obviously it migrants have it a little better than the TFW since they know better and value themselves properly. I have seen migrants getting looked over for the cheaper tfw and that is demoralizing for them even when they are willing to work for the bare minimum. My old neighbors were experiencing that and took it pretty hard.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/cargill-covid19-outbreak
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/05/02/Alberta-Meat-Plant-Workers-Speak/
https://www.afl.org/tags/labour_rights_standards_and_law?page=3
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/05/19/film-company-foreign-workers_n_5350287.html
Understand that 2k the gov give for cerb(ubi light) barely pays the bills in the first place
https://globalnews.ca/news/7428870/millions-of-apples-rotting-okanagan/
https://harvestingfreedom.org/tag/temporary-foreign-worker-program/
Sorry my figures were wrong with the firefighters, it was $50 per day, still not good tho. $4/ hour for what should be a high paying job compared to $30+ /hour locals get. Minimum wage in Alberta for any worker is $15/hour by law.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/south-african-firefighters-in-pay-dispute-leave-fort-mcmurray-1.3631385
Also people don't do research in what goes on in Canada and just blissfully stroll thru. I gut things down to the little details and get wide perspective but it also gives me the chance to identify the bad things happening. Probably the fact that my employment is always moving around, I get to talk to a wide range of people and social classes and also part of fair labor movements probably trained me to identify the cracks in the system. The tfw are a sort of human trafficking from actual human traffickers in many cases, also how it differs from migrants. Companies don't pay the workers directly, they pay their agency and in turn they pay the workers. Depending where you relative live too makes a difference. Alberta, it's the friken wild wild west and anything goes.
The provincial government is like a 40 year empire with the same one party always in charge. We had a different party for one turn and we had a chance to push for labor reform but the other clowns got back in and rolled it all back worse than it was before. The pandemic exposed a few things to as we tried to understand why these communities were experiencing severe outbreaks when the rest of us weren't like around meat packing plants.
I'm sure there are many success stories out of all of this and probably not like that for every Temporary worker especially for the skilled ones but there are far too many human rights abuses as well mostly in unskilled labor and they are pretty bad and plain wrong. Like you said, the abuses gets papered over with feel good stories, Canada is good at making feel good stories. I'm such a nerd for always researching shit , I know. That's why they hate unions and call us lazy, we are actually hard workers but we hold companies accountable for health safety and fairness in the workplaces and what is good for workers is not good for shareholders. We don' only fight for ourselves, we fight for all workers.
Working remotely would be a blessing for anyone and it's a great plan. Being off the grid you are also more in charge of your own circumstances rather than relying on others, in the end nobody knows your needs better than yourself, just like being our own financial custodian, the more you can do for yourself, the better off you are and also gives you the right to bitch and moan at the flaws in the system since you are capable of take accountability and responsibility for your own life rather than just have to depend on it. People that don't take responsibility for themselves end up having to accept sub-par to survive.
I'm setting myself up to be sitting on my arse at retirement, well not literally but hobbies and fun stuff only certainly on my terms. I pondered doing nature conservation type stuff at retirement maybe with our national parks and those jobs don't pay that well so I want to be set up that low pay doesn't matter if it's something I love. In reality I have plan A, plan B....all the way to plan Z. lol like I said, I'm a nerd like that but I always have a direction.
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