From the Billionaires to the Millionaires, to the Upper Middle to the Middle, from the Middle to the Lower and the lower still … let’s all just fuck over the guy below and keep punching down instead of up.. it is serving us so well. :/
Brexiteers should go do this work.
Also happening in the care industry
I hope the remainer dummies hang their heads in shame.
We discovered that UK fruit growers were scumbags during lockdown 1, this shouldn’t be a surprise anymore.
Below minimum wages, £200 a week for accomodation in a shared caravan with no electricity and running water, once a week trips to the village shop with jacked up prices. Refusing to employ anyone that knew their rights and was harder to exploit.
Illegal fees are the next logical step. They’re only one step away from taking away passports and asking for £5k to give them back.
The farms need to be fined.
They are also charged thousands in legal fees.
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Lazy arse farmers need to go pick their own produce instead of using old school workhouse techniques. Farmers are devil employers.
I’d legitimately pick fruit, even over in England, if help with accommodation was offered or I was at least allowed to pitch a tent. As it is though, it’s pretty impossible to find somewhere to stay to make it financially viable
Fruit pickers ought to pay us for the picking. I take my family down to Millers farm every fall and it cost 10 quid to pick a bushel of apples! Absurd! It’s time they pay their fair share! No free hay rides cuz their brown!
Someone has probably already checked to see if they have their tv licenses.
Doesn’t sound like anyone that has commented so far has read the article. It wasn’t the farms but a shady recruiter. The government hired a charity that promotes international volunteering (called Concordia) who then sub-contracted a London firm who then gave the work to an offshoot company it owns in Nepal. The Nepalese recruiters seem to be the ones collecting extra fees but apparently they were even paying into the bank accounts of all CEOS involved in this clusterfuck.
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I’ve always been impressed by how the UK as a service economy manages to add so many people to a simple job and overcharge. Looks like stealing from the poor helps prop these companies up.
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Modern day Indentured servitude
Trickle down abuse.
From the Billionaires to the Millionaires, to the Upper Middle to the Middle, from the Middle to the Lower and the lower still … let’s all just fuck over the guy below and keep punching down instead of up.. it is serving us so well. :/
Brexiteers should go do this work.
Also happening in the care industry
I hope the remainer dummies hang their heads in shame.
We discovered that UK fruit growers were scumbags during lockdown 1, this shouldn’t be a surprise anymore.
Below minimum wages, £200 a week for accomodation in a shared caravan with no electricity and running water, once a week trips to the village shop with jacked up prices. Refusing to employ anyone that knew their rights and was harder to exploit.
Illegal fees are the next logical step. They’re only one step away from taking away passports and asking for £5k to give them back.
The farms need to be fined.
They are also charged thousands in legal fees.
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Lazy arse farmers need to go pick their own produce instead of using old school workhouse techniques. Farmers are devil employers.
I’d legitimately pick fruit, even over in England, if help with accommodation was offered or I was at least allowed to pitch a tent. As it is though, it’s pretty impossible to find somewhere to stay to make it financially viable
Fruit pickers ought to pay us for the picking. I take my family down to Millers farm every fall and it cost 10 quid to pick a bushel of apples! Absurd! It’s time they pay their fair share! No free hay rides cuz their brown!
Someone has probably already checked to see if they have their tv licenses.
Doesn’t sound like anyone that has commented so far has read the article. It wasn’t the farms but a shady recruiter. The government hired a charity that promotes international volunteering (called Concordia) who then sub-contracted a London firm who then gave the work to an offshoot company it owns in Nepal. The Nepalese recruiters seem to be the ones collecting extra fees but apparently they were even paying into the bank accounts of all CEOS involved in this clusterfuck.
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I’ve always been impressed by how the UK as a service economy manages to add so many people to a simple job and overcharge. Looks like stealing from the poor helps prop these companies up.