05-24-2016, 09:05 AM
(05-23-2016, 11:13 PM)MacBerry Wrote:(05-23-2016, 10:46 PM)clasher Wrote: Who wants a break when you're making double-time on a holiday? I've worked 14 or 18 hour shifts on holidays before, it's a lot of money.
I know this is a stupid question but I need the flak ...
Why do we not have enough workers here in Ontario or Waterloo and these teams are brought in from Quebec? I could be quite wrong about this and therefore my assumption is wrong premised.
It is not a territorial question but a labour shortage question I am asking.
There's a lot of factors at play. A number of skilled workers that used to have work in Ontario have long since moved to Alberta or at least work often enough out west that they don't often work here. Companies will keep good crews that they know instead of taking a chance on hiring new people. A company I work for would rather pay for my hotel in Bowmanville than call the hall for a worker, especially if it's a finicky job. It's less paperwork to keep existing workers than hire local ones. Local workers might already be working when they were hiring... I was working out of town when they might have hired more ironworkers for the Dutton street building. Some of the LRT work is pretty specialized and it's cheaper to just pay room and board for a few crews that do the specialized work than it is to train locals who then have no more LRTs to build and are left with a specialized skill set of limited use.