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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, March 15, 2004 ::
Firm to hire foreign workers By Adrienne Tanner, The Province
B.C.'s construction-trade unions are fuming over Ottawa's decision to allow a Delta steel firm to import 50 foreign workers when B.C.'s unemployment rate is 7.9 per cent.
'It's outrageous,' said Wayne Peppard, executive director of the B.C. and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council.
Lower Mainland Steel, which is advertising for rebar installers in the U.S., would have no problem filling the jobs locally if it paid union-scale wages, he said.
'We say we do have people in B.C. who are willing to do that work. This is just an excuse to drive the wages down and support the low bid,' Peppard said.------------------------------------------- posted 7:27 AM :: reference link ::
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