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Dude. I am fucking happy to pick fruit.
1) The jobs still really aren't there.
2) Who will pay my rent while I'm out on a farm? Or pay to break my lease and store my stuff? https://twitter.com/DougCameron51/status/1311198496330936321
1) The jobs still really aren't there.
2) Who will pay my rent while I'm out on a farm? Or pay to break my lease and store my stuff? https://twitter.com/DougCameron51/status/1311198496330936321
3) where do I live when doing this? (And is it safe?) And how much of my wage is taken for it?
4) After the six week season is over, where do I go?
4) After the six week season is over, where do I go?
5) Am I given assistance to relocate to a new regional town and season? Or given help to pay a bond back home?
6) Do I try and trade in my 2011 hatchback for a 20 year old van I could sleep in the back of? And keep all my possessions in?
7) These aren't rhetorical questions. The job market is what it is. And it's fucking scary and stressful. We're not unwilling to work. Just. How?
8) And this all assumes we're chill with taking vulnerable people away from their homes, community, and healthcare, to go work on isolated farms with little protection from exploitation and abuse.
9) but, HOMES, COMMUNITY, and HEALTHCARE. That's what you're asking someone to leave to pick fruit for six weeks. The safety and security of homes (HOME), support networks, and access to health care.
10) Oh, you're poor (and there are no jobs!), but you take solace in the love of a pet and some regular family friend dinners? NO MORE. Out to the farm you go and leave behind ... everything that makes this bearable.
11) Our agricultural industry has been run on slave labour from the start. From blackbirding in the 19C to this. 77 Tongans living in. Adobe bedroom house to pick fruit. And being charged for it https://twitter.com/CarolynLake/status/1311280358038487041?s=19
That was meant to be not an Adobe house, but a five bedroom house. Just fifteen people and change per room.
Would your long term unemployment stress be relieved by sharing a room with 14 other people?
Would that help your (likely inevitable) mental health situation? But, you got a job, right? 400km from home but it's a A Job!
