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Jobs for Pacific Islanders or our own Aborigines? : Comments
By Helen Hughes, published 19/10/2006Why is Northern Queensland calling for fruit pickers from the Pacific Islands?
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I think the safer option would be for fruit pickers to tender out their labor needs and for bidders to emerge from communities themselves.
This approach would allow for community tenderers as labour providers to explore broader labour market opportunities for workers, enter into collective wage agreements (ouch!) and project longer term investment into the workers own employment and career ambitions.
The history of Aboriginal engagement in Australian labour markets is not all rosy. See http://www.eniar.org/action/stolen.html
A lot of our youth in remote areas need good support around them when they enter the real world of work.
For me Aboriginal community’s purchasing these orchids would be the ultimate! When workers have a stakehold in their own employment beyong pay days it ensures some loyalty and good work ethic is embedded into all production values.
Cheers!