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mokitaon Oct 14, 2012 2:00pm
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Current dirty politics--hiring Chinese miners expo
Current dirty politics--hiring Chinese miners expo Current media exposure of trend towards BC government permitting hiring cheaper Chinese miners to fill BC mining jobs is creating outrage and exposing Premier Clark's expansion of coal mines/job creation policy as yet another marketing pitch. Chinese plans to buy BC mines like Tumbler Ridge and hire Chinese miners who will work for lower wages and endure dangerous conditions is finanally getting the media attention it deserves. As well as locking Canadian workers out of high paying, if dangerous, jobs, this policy revives a shameful Canadian past of exploiting cheap, temporary labour in favour of corporate profit.
Joan Kuyek addressed this hiring trend in her analysis of inflated and spurious CEC jobs and economic development of locl communities claims that can be read on coalwatch.ca..