Cbi, Immigration And The Economy

[OnlyMe]

CBI championing low wage immigrant jobs again.

This is the the same CBI that were calling for ever lower interest rates to "save" manufacturing. All it has done is massivley increased house prices and prevented people from being able to affford to do those jobs.

Piece on radio this morning - about Poles being lured to the UK, paying over £400 to an agent to find a job and then being dumped, even worse some apparently having their passports stolen from them and then left in a position where they have to work for around a £1 a hour.

Of course this is great for the economy, it allows a few companies running slave wage / conded employement to outcompete the good and will no doubt displace even more min wage jobs.

These screwed up economics will backfire, just like they have in Germany when those who need to find temproary employment and fill in jobs to help pay mortgages will not be able to find anything.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0300busines...-name_page.html

Workers from new EU nations filling vacancies May 2 2005

Western Mail

MIGRANT workers have eased the pressure to recruit skilled staff and have helped plug employment gaps in the health service and hotels, according to a new report.

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John Cridland, deputy director general of the CBI, said, "The UK Government and business welcomed the 10 new members as prospective allies in the drive for economic reform of the EU. As the months have gone by, we have increasingly heard these new voices speaking up for a free market and a flexible labour force.

[Justice]

MIGRANT workers have eased the pressure to recruit skilled staff and have helped plug employment gaps in the health service and hotels, according to a new report.

Hospitals now use contracted cleaning companies so they are resolved of responsibility when it turns out the cleaning staff are illegal immigrants.

Are we paying 11% NI for this kind of service.

As more and more people find that burger flipping jobs are harder to come by then maybe they will put 2 & 2 together and start to question why the UK has an open door policy on immigration , Tesco loves cheap labour you only need to look and you can bet they are paying money to MP’s to ensure they have a never ending supply of cheap labour, the loser’s is the british public.

Edited May 2, 2005 by Justice

[Property Dreamer]

Well acording to the Times - Mary Kenny - we need more immigrants to do the unpleasent household chores the she and her friends simply cannot do.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1594029,00.html

Some of my oldest feminist friends in Dublin — with whom I marched on “Wages for Housework” demos back in the Seventies — now rave about the quality of migrant housework. When I grumbled a little while ago about my housewifely duties, my friend Sheila cried down the phone: “Oh you must get a Latvian maid! Or a Russian, they’re quite wonderful. You won’t ever have to think about housework again!”

[zzg113]

Some of my oldest feminist friends in Dublin — with whom I marched on “Wages for Housework” demos back in the Seventies — now rave about the quality of migrant housework. When I grumbled a little while ago about my housewifely duties, my friend Sheila cried down the phone: “Oh you must get a Latvian maid! Or a Russian, they’re quite wonderful. You won’t ever have to think about housework again!”

Just goes to show the massive hypocrisy that lies behind vast swathes of the feminist movement, and how quickly the supposedly "oppressed" become the oppressors.

[he who dares]

I find it laughable about the women who give up work to become house wives but will not do any house hold chores!!!!!!!

They just sit on their ar5e all day reading magazines and hubby has to employ a cleaner to do his ironing???

[Property Dreamer]

I had for a period of 1 month a cleaner but found the experience of having a stranger going through ones house unnerving. I also found myself ensuring the place was clean before the cleaner arrived! Also the cleaner was so useless that she refused to move anything in order to clean behind and around furniture quoting HASWA rules.

I fired her and it was a huge relief and I consider the experience a failed experiment and one never to be repeated.

[deano]

An article in the dailly mail some months ago bestowed the virtue of migrant labour. This millionaire hotelier could not fill 2 vacancies despite local unemployment, two polish chaps took the jobs at the minimum wage, 60 hrs a week and the guy was chuffed to bits.

Let them burn!