Stop Temporary Foreign Workers

Prairie Boy · Sep 2, 2016

Big Eagle went broke. But he started up again as Copper Tip, a Nitrogen company.

AModelCat · Sep 2, 2016

Prairie Boy said: ↑

Big Eagle went broke. But he started up again as Copper Tip, a Nitrogen company.
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I quit BE just before they were bought out (High Arctic Energy?) I knew the ship was sinking when I needed a set of fan belts and the branch manager gave me $80 out of her purse lol.

Zeviander · Sep 3, 2016

NorthernMechanic said: ↑

If it really is TransX then no wonder they have to recruit elsewhere. No one wants to live in Winterpeg lol.
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I do. And it's only winter here about 3 months of the year.

orcen · Sep 3, 2016

It's winter in peg from November to April lol

Zeviander · Sep 3, 2016

orcen said: ↑

It's winter in peg from November to April lol
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Mid-November to late March.

Snow usually starts falling on Hallowe'en, but only starts staying around Remembrance Day. Starts melting late March. There are more above zero months than below zero months.

AModelCat · Sep 4, 2016

Zeviander said: ↑

Mid-November to late March.

Snow usually starts falling on Hallowe'en, but only starts staying around Remembrance Day. Starts melting late March. There are more above zero months than below zero months.
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Sounds like Fort Mac. Snow in early November and gone in April. Although I love the 16ish hours of daylight in summer.

Licensed to kill · Sep 4, 2016

The worst blizzards in FT Mac are in the summer time. Blizzards of mosquitoes. I've heard that it takes a 12 gauge to bring down the mosquitoes in Winnipeg but Ft Mac has "Chinese" mosquitoes. They are small but there are LOTS of them.

Runawayscreaming · Dec 3, 2016

Report finds Temporary Foreign Worker Program is Human Trafficking:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...on-temporary-foreign-worker-program-1.3879689

617strong · Dec 3, 2016

Runawayscreaming said: ↑

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is being used as a weapon against truck drivers. The Temporary Foreign Worker Program must be stopped.

While some Canadian transportation employees, such as airline pilots, are fighting back against Temporary Foreign replacement pilots, no one is representing truck drivers. The Federal Government is in the palm of the hands of trucking company owners who have created a big fat lie about a nonexistent "driver shortage" so they can access captive foreign truck drivers to drive down truck drivers wages in Canada. Tens of thousands of Temporary Foreign Workers are replacing Canadian truck drivers. This is not good for trucking and it is not good for Canada.

Short of a general strike of union and non-union truck drivers, what can truck drivers do? We could march en masse with pitchforks and torches to Ottawa and burn down the Parliament buildings. We could write to the Federal Minister in charge of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program:

The Honourable Diane Finley
Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development
House of Commons
Confederation Building
Room 707
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
diane.finley@parl.gc.ca

Snail-mail to Minister Finley does not require a stamp.

You could cc your e-mail to your local Federal Member of Parliament and your local newspaper as well.

Sample letter:

Dear Minister Finley,

Please stop the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. I am a truck driver and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is interfering with my ability to earn a living wage. Truck drivers wages have been falling for 20 years. Truck driver turnover is now unacceptably high because of low wages and abusive trucking company owners. The trucking industry is in a state of anarchy. Rule of Law is largely absent from trucking. Truck drivers are fired without cause and replaced by Temporary Foreign Workers. Constructive dismissal of truck drivers is endemic. Trucking companies often short drivers paycheques. Illegal threats and intimidation of truck drivers by trucking company managers are par for the course. To make matters worse, Canadian truck drivers are de facto exempt from overtime pay legislation and minimum-wage legislation.

Truck drivers have no voice in Parliament. Truck drivers are largely non-union. Parliamentarians are acting on behalf of trucking company owners when trucking company owners request Temporary Foreign Workers. Trucking company owners are the last constituents that Members of Parliament should be taking advice from. Trucking company owners and managers are, by and large, adversarial ne'er-do-wells with no management skills. These liars, thieves, bullies and sociopaths handle every business issue by donning their dunce caps and declaring war on truck drivers. Temporary Foreign Workers are one more weapon that trucking company owners are using to inflict misery upon Canadian truck drivers.

Low wages for truck drivers are a public safety issue. Poverty and despair amongst Canadian truck drivers have associated social costs to Canadian taxpayers. The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is not a solution to problems in the trucking industry. It is exacerbating low wages. It is bad for Canada. The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is preventing Canadian truck drivers from working in trucking. There are very large numbers of Canadian truck drivers who will never again work in trucking. Cases of trucking companies rejecting qualified Canadian truck driver job applications in favour of less-qualified Temporary Foreign Workers are common. So are cases of trucking companies forcing out Canadian truck drivers so they can hire Temporary Foreign Workers. Without representation in Parliament, the voiceless victims of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program are never heard from. Canadian truck drivers are not members of organized labour or professional organizations who speak on their behalf. They are worn-down, tired, abused and demoralized individual Canadian citizens with no energy left to fight the lawless chaos that has been inflicted upon them in their years in the trucking industry.

As a Canadian I am not proud that millions of Canadians are out of work while the Government of Canada has approved the use of a growing number of foreign workers who do not have the legal rights and protections of Canadian citizens. I am disheartened that the rogues gallery of clueless and incompetent trucking company managers have been granted the power to determine whether would-be immigrants in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program should be made Canadian citizens or not.

Yours truly,

Exasperated Canadian Truck Driver
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Build the wall illegals are killing the industry

Runawayscreaming · Dec 3, 2016

This is the Canada forum. Temporary Foreign Workers is a term for legal foreign workers invited into Canada, although the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program is the same sort of Globalization of labour that American workers are upset about (downward pressure on wages, job losses, government-sanctioned slavery etc).

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