NZFF

I'm really sorry, I don't want to be political and you can remove this if you want mods ...but, I really have to wonder what our leaders are thinking sometimes.
These fruit growers up north, and down south I guess, looking for pickers, and unable to get them from a covid free pacific are looking at major financial problems.
But they will be able to talk to someone about how they feel, and maybe turn those feelings into positive energy? ...your fruit will rot on the trees, you won't get paid, but ..... hopefully, you will feel good about it....really??

Shoot at will, but this is not good.

It's all about thoughts and prayers apparently Marty .. didn't you get the memo?

It's a tough one isn't it, they don't pay enough to attract kiwis (other than students or people who are already local), I'm no economist but is it just a matter of paying more and reducing margins? Seems unfair to expect Pacific people to move to NZ and be paid peanuts and then not be able to afford to buy a home?

I didn't get the memo mate.
You sum it up well deeknow , and it is a hard one. I hate the thought of anybody being taken advantage of ..... Oh, maybe I'll just shut up now.

deeknow wrote:It's a tough one isn't it, they don't pay enough to attract kiwis (other than students or people who are already local), I'm no economist but is it just a matter of paying more and reducing margins? Seems unfair to expect Pacific people to move to NZ and be paid peanuts and then not be able to afford to buy a home?

Down here in Marlborough, the vineyards use lots of foreign workers from places like Vanuatu. Because the work (mainly grape pruning) is seasonal, even if the pay for NZ'ers was a bit higher, there would not be work for the whole year, so hard for anybody to live here without another job. For the Ni Vanuatu people, the wages they make are good in comparison to what they can earn at home and they are provided good accommodation and support. We have holidayed in Vanuatu and most people live in 2nd and 3rd world conditions. The ones who have worked in NZ are financially better off and speak very highly of their time in NZ. In Vanuatu almost everybody I talked to had been to Blenheim, or knew somebody who had!!

Same here in the BOP for kiwifruit