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Sunday, May 18, 2014

"Temporary" foreign workers hired for trades, professional jobs



The Conservative Party Screws Workers
  • Under a "Conservative" government and with 8% unemployment foreign workers are hired instead of Canadian citizens.
  • Canada is importing 20,000 outside foreign workers in a program designed to take jobs from Canadian citizens and drive wages down
  • Liberal leader Justin Trudeau slammed the Conservatives, “In Windsor, the number of unemployed workers has risen by 40 per cent while the number of foreign workers in the city has grown by 86 per cent. Unemployment in London has risen by 27 per cent while the number of foreign workers has increased by 87 per cent.”


(Editor - Looks like so-called "Conservatives" on both sides of the border love "legal" immigration to drive wages down for their business supporters.)


(The Windsor Star)  -  Candice-Rose Gagnon spent a year trying to find work in Windsor after graduating - twice – from specialized college  programs in marketing.

Eventually, Gagnon gave up and went back to school again out of town. So it made her pretty mad to learn that since 2011, the federal government has authorized local manufacturers to hire two temporary foreign workers as sales, marketing and advertising managers.

“I didn’t even get one interview. It’s been a long process. The only options I had were go on welfare or go back to school,” said Gagnon, 26. “It makes me feel disgusted. How can I have support in my government?”

Gagnon was one of three young people with degrees or experience in marketing who called The Star with similar stories about plastering the city with resumes to no avail. And it wasn’t just marketing jobs that went to temporary foreign workers.

"Conservative" Employment Minister Jason Kenney says
"Screw You"

Under the International Experience Canada program, as many as 20,000 workers aged 18 to 35 will soon be coming to Canada — just as Canadian youth begin pounding the pavement in search of summer jobs.
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The program allows employers to bypass the labour market opinion process, which means there’s no need for government approval. As well, companies are not obliged to pay their workers the prevailing market wage.
(The Province.com)


While thousands of Windsorites were looking for work, manufacturers in the region hired dozens of temporary foreign workers to fill high-level jobs for terms of longer than a year, new data from the federal employment ministry reveals. The federal government gave local manufacturers permission to hire temporary foreign workers to work as a firefighter, a human resources manager and two mechanical engineers, among other jobs.

Mike Moffatt, an economist at Western University who has studied the issue, said he was surprised by the jobs on the list.

“There would seem to be a large gap in how we’re training local people. It’s surprising to me when we have eight per cent unemployment in Windsor,” Moffatt said. “Why can’t we train somebody in Windsor to take these jobs? There may be a reason, but it’s not obvious to me what it is.”

The numbers come from the second set of data that Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has released to The Star since the growing number of temporary foreign workers in Windsor became a hot topic in the House of Commons. Employment Minister Jason Kenney has been on the defensive about the temporary foreign worker program following a series of controversies after employees working at banks, fast food restaurants and other Canadian workplaces went public with claims they were replaced by temporary foreign workers.

The newly released data shows that nine out of 10 of the 1,923 workers hired by Windsor-Sarnia manufacturers since 2011 were here on contracts shorter than one year. More than half of the jobs were in food and beverage processing or general farm labour, and about an eighth of the positions were specialized equipment repairmen brought in to fix broken machinery.

Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur.

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