Romanian Crop Pickers

For pushing a sixty hour week...

 

There is .
It is fkin hard work .

 

They'll be flying trained grass cutters over next

 

Not a lot of pressure though

 

Its because the farmers were greedy and wanted to take advantage and get free labour so they asked for British furloughed workers to do it voluntarily. When people collectively told them to piss off they have **** their pants and had to pay for Romanians to come and do it paid.

 

They wanted us to do it for free. Hardly anyone responded to their call for volunteers

 

That depends on your description of a ‘week’.

 

There will be lights in the sky and circles appearing.

 

Jeez. Don't bash work dodgers on here. - I've just copped a load on another thread for doing so. (And having an opinion...... )

 

I saw a few posts saying people should volunteer on social media (interestingly, it was always for *other people* to volunteer, I didn't see a single person offering). I think people are remembering going strawberry picking for a couple of hours once a year as a child with their family and think it's a jolly trip out for the day or a holiday in free accomodation. Instead it's 8 hours a day bent over in a field 5 or 6 days a week with barely any breaks and a bed in a shared run down caravan or shed type structure. Why would anyone be expected to do manual labour for 8 hours a day, away from family, for free? Especially when the reason we have migrants do it is because we literally can't pay British people to do it in the first place.

 

Fair enough mate. I was going by this for the 400 per week figure https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/farming/a31954445/help-feed-the-nation/ As a student I would have jumped at the chance in the summer to be doing this type of work (I worked in a kitchen/cleaning as that was what I found, temp-wise, at the time). According to the link there was a 90k shortfall in applicants hence the call further afield (Romania etc). I imagine for some it's hard logistically (location, travel etc) and some would be put off by the long hours.

I worked on a farm in Australia for a month, 7am-5.30pm every day. We had two days off in the month because two days of rain meant we couldnt pick mangoes. But apart from that, it was 40 degree heat in the Northern Territory, over 10 hours work a day, aged 18 and I loved it. And after an hour of picking you'd be sweating your box off. And we shared a Portocabin of 20 men on the farm including a very loud snorer. But it was great although nowhere near the sums here (for 70 hour weeks we wouldn't earn close to £400). And it was the hardest work I've done. Some would rather just not try it. Fair enough.

There was a reward in it knowing that our mangoes were being shipped all over Australia.

 

One example of someone who can't even get a reply....

 

8 hours? Are you working part time?

 

Sounds like it was character building mate.

 

Have u read Jay Beecher's tweets, I'm not saying he's got an angle but he makes Katie Hopkins look moderate.

 

Bash away owd ****.

I live on a brand new estate with plenty of the ***** on here.

 

Brilliant. Best laugh in days

 

It was mate! Very unique opportunity and taught me the value of hard work (and I only did it for a month!). I never looked at crops the same way again..

 

This Romanian fruit picking thing just makes brexit look even more stupid than it is. If that’s possible. Surely indefensible by anybody’s standards! The Romanians should have told us to our own fruit, like we voted to.

 

Erm

Yes it was and we knew about it.

Next remain idiot please

Post-war reliance on migrant workers grows
In response to labour shortages following World War II, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS) was introduced in 1945, allowing foreign nationals to temporarily reside in the UK in order to harvest fruit and vegetables. The bulk of SAWS workers were Eastern European (like Romania for instance) or from the former Soviet Union.