McCrispy maker Cranswick flies in 400 butchers from Philippines due to staff shortages – Company has spent £4m to bring the butchers over due to severe staff shortages

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  3. In Hull twice as many people voted to leave Europe rather than stay. It seems they are also too lazy to work in this factory.

  4. The article is missing a crucial piece – how much are they going to pay these workers?

    They can’t speak about staff shortage if they won’t tell how much they are offering to pay.

  5. Does this company pay work visas for these people? Travel costs? etc?

    Is it not that they didn’t raise wages, are there butchers trained that they can hire?

  6. My wife works as a carer for an old lady. The other carers are from an agency and are exclusively young men from India who barely speak any English. There are a whole bunch of them that come on different days and times. The poor lady doesn’t know their names or even recognise most of them yet they, these young men are expected to wash and toilet her intimately as well as help her with meds and food. Sometimes they treat her too roughly or simply don’t understand her requests for simple things like getting some biscuits from the cupboard. They seem to be recruiting directly from India with little training or language skills. I can’t imagine how the poor lady feels having her private parts washed by a strange foreign man who can’t talk and reassure her. Awful situation.

  7. How generous, flying people across from a country with poverty wages and paying them a proper wage that people from the UK would be happy to work for. Has anyone not worked out the true purpose of mass immigration yet? Do try to keep up.

  9. >Cranswick flies in 400 butchers from Philippines due to staff shortages

    staff shortages because go to any town and find a butcher on the high street. We had a new one open a couple years ago and they have been temporarily shut ever since.

  10. This country is utter shite at training people. We have an apprenticeship system that abuses people for cheap labour in skill-less sectors and the European model of a traineeship is barely a thing here. Education is a business in a UK, and businesses fail daily, as such were vulnerable to a skill shortage because this business model IS failing.

  14. Sorry there is no way this company is paying 42k for butchers, it says up to. I imagine that’s ones manager and every one else is massively below this. Just look at some reviews from indeed for the company

    There are very long hours.
    Not allowed to claim overtime.
    No working from home.
    Always made to feel uncomfortable.
    Management stuck in their ways.
    Avoid avoid avoid.

    Worse place I’ve ever worked they don’t care about there staff really low pay people are just a number conditions are rubbish abuse people no respect at all from management want you to work all hours god sends

    Production & Manufacturing

    Production Operator

    £10.14 per hour

    Trimmer

    £30,000 per year

    Sounds like it’s horrendous and they work 5×12 hour shifts a week for whatever they get paid.

  15. If they can afford to fly people over then they can afford to pay their staff a decent wage rather than exploiting foreign workers in a form of modern slavery. They will all be ripped off buy agent’s, gang masters and those providing (presumably substandard ) accomodation.

  17. Never forget – industrial agriculture is a product of state monopoly capitalism.

    Designated monopoly – with the power of the state behind monopoly control of workers – and workers’ families.

    Do these workers have the rights of bargain, strike, organize ?

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