Xenophobia

Lost User

(Edited my previous post to you, however...) Globalization brings corporate responsibilities that are too distant from the ordinary worker and outside of their sphere of influence. So yes, you are right in your last sentence.

Oakman

Chris Austin wrote:

I take almost painful (and unpopular) steps to make sure my contractors and handymen are on the up and up.

I am proud to have made the aquaintance, however cybernetically, of someone who walks the walk as well as talking the talk. ^5

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Dalek Dave

Cured by the Blessed Margaret! I don't see Her this time :(

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Oakman

fat_boy wrote:

Dont pretend though that the French market is open as you suggest. It isnt.

Here I go again, giving you a 5. I need a drink after that!

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Chris Austin

Dalek Dave wrote:

"Is that really your name" I asked.

:) I say something like that or lie in my best Texas Draw that my name is "Sanjay"

Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long

Oakman

martin_hughes wrote:

now where did we see this before?

the 30's?

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Chris Austin

Thanks. You have no idea how many dirty looks I've gotten or how many times I've been told to f. off after telling a general contractor to make sure that anybody working on a property of mine is legal. I even had one guy tell me he was going to file a discrimination lawsuit against me. The worst was when our own house was being repaired from a burst pipe and I had to kick the drywall people out of my house after warning the general contractor. It caused a huge delay and more problems with the insurance company.

Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long

Lost User

Dalek Dave wrote:

Cured by the Blessed Margaret!

Although she did well in the reform of Trade Union powers, unfortunately, with her went into relative oblivion, a large slice of British Manufacturing Industry.

KaRl

Dalek Dave wrote:

They are being given food and accomodation and this is deemed part of the remuneration, this is a) Legal and b) undercutting the final Wage bill.

European workers are protected by the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 like any local worker, see http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/labour_law/docs/2006/posting/united_kingdom_en.pdf[^]. They cannot be paid below this national minimum wage.

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KaRl

fat_boy wrote:

Whay are Total in the UK?

Maybe because there's oil in the North Sea[^]?

fat_boy wrote:

Dont pretend though that the French market is open as you suggest.

I don't, you missed my point.

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Ilion

Ka?l wrote:

Now that the crisis become strong the old nationalist and xenophobic daemons come back.

It's not yet ... but it will be once your sort have finished.

Ilion

digital man wrote:

It is entirely right and proper (given the laws under which we live) that anyone from any part of europe has the right to work anywhere else.

Nonsense. "Europe" (which doesn't even exist, anyway!) is not the USA.

digital man wrote:

The error was that whomever negotiated the contract should have been more sensitive to local needs and could have written a clause into the contract that local labour should be used first, where appropriate.

Socialistic piffle ... which inherently and fundamentally contradicts your previous assertion, even were the previous assertion not nonsense. This illustrates the fundamental problem with "liberalism," it has no principled core; "liberalism" wants socialism (which desire is itself bad enough), but must constantly make exceptions to socialism, and has no principles by which to make those exceptions, and so they must always be made on-the-fly.

Oakman

Chris Austin wrote:

I even had one guy tell me he was going to file a discrimination lawsuit against me.

It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

GuyThiebaut

ARE YOU CAPABLE OF LISTENING TO ANY OPINION IN OPPOSITION TO YOURS? Yes I know the above is in caps I am freakin' mad at your intransigent stubborn arrogance!

Xenophobia

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