1000 Greeks imported into Australia to drive taxi's

The taxi companies could do a whole lot worse than hiring Greek drivers. Imagine hiring Pommy drivers? All they'd be doing is whinging and complaining about the Melbourne weather and being too many brown people in Melbourne.

 

This is Australia and not America. This would never happen, if it did, the unions would have a field day and the taxi company owners would be driven (pun intended) out of town.

Look at Australian immigration history. It's not the first time skilled workers have been recruited from Europe. And probably not the last.

BTW, Greeks are Caucasian just as Anglo Saxon/Celtic are.

 

Never heard a Pom whinge about brown people yet. Someone`s got their hand on it.

 

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I love it when the "opposition" prove my point. Thank you.

Firstly, the current theory DOES show that the "Australian Indigenous Peoples" did actually branch off soon after our ancestors started to move out of Africa.

So your reference to "out of Africa" shows shows you follow the current evolutionary model and therefore the time frames that differentiate indigenous from migratory. Naturally, all except Africans are "migrant". When discussing migration at a social level and not an evolutionary level however it is very different.

The Australian Aboriginal Nations were formed from people who migrated to the continent that was to become know as the Australian Continent over 40 millennia ago, 40 thousand years, 40 000 years. We, the "migrants have been here at max, around 200 years, 0.5 of one millennium, a blink of an eye.

How bloody arrogant we would have to be to claim ownership, now I think we should re-read what you wrote.

 

The current scientific theory is that the Indigenous Australians came via Asia, which would be reasonable considering Australia is an Island, and the closest land is the top end to Asia.

Nice of you to admit to that so-called indigenous people of Australia are not really that indigenous to Australia after all just like the rest of us imigrants.

 

Are you guys saying that the Ozzers should be recruiting many more Aborigines and Africans to drive ?

 

Recruiting aboriginals definitely, but you cannot get them off their lazy fat welfare dependent arses to work. They whinge and whine about white Australians, but forget that white Australians are the ones paying for the welfare dependent lifestyles.

 

Wrong, I live with an Aboriginal family and I know more that work then what don't. I am not saying that unemployment is not far greater amongst our indigenous people, but it goes a lot further then the racists view that they are just lazy welfare dependent people.

Grow up and look at reality, not your hairy fairy view of it. I will when I have the time find you the link about the migration of Aboriginal people. For your edification.

 

They whing and whine about white Australians, but our welfare money is good. If they don't like us, why accept our money. Why not get out and get a job like everyone else has too?

 

like EVERYONE else, oh is it only the Aboriginals that are unemployed, WRONG, there are more whites unemployed. Finding any job is hard enough, if your Aboriginal, you are put at the end of the queue from the start. Now don't give me all your crap excuses etc, I see it daily, now tell me honestly, when was the last time you sat down and spent a few hours talking to Aboriginals?

 

If you are not going to talk sensibly and use positive and negative critical analysis to offer your view, then what’s the point of communicating?

Per population, you know and I know there are far more unemployed indigenous Aboriginals than white Australians.

Finding a job is hard for white people also, and we have seen the discrimination they face when the media go on a crusade and attack them calling them dole bludgers and people who don’t want to work.

From what I have discovered as an employer, over 90% of Aboriginal people want to be at the back of the working queue. It doesn’t help young Aboriginal people that under the discrimination act they don’t even have to participate in courses or even look for work when unemployed.

We registered with the Federal & State Governments advocating that we were advertising for an indigenous Australian employee; the red tape getting this process done was a bloody nightmare. We were looing for two your indigenous workers - possible apprentices

Ever indigenous young Australian that showed up for a job at my business went out of their way to sabotage themselves getting the job.

 

Australia doesn't need to bring over 1000 Greek taxi drivers to drive Australian taxi's when Australia has over 600,000 unemployed people.

Lets train the unemployed people we already have.

 

I am not Greek, but I know from being there for several hundred years they are dirt cheap. Good luck figuring out how cheap and brutal to other people's family tree.

 

Anyone who is not biased or has an IQ above 60 would understand if the Taxi Council lifted its working standards and wages, then there would be no need to bring Greeks in to work as taxi drives - unemployed Australians could be trained.

The problem we now face in Australia, is that we have politicians who would rather give away Australian jobs to foreign imports rather than making employers lift wages and conditions so that Australians living here will work those jobs and be able to make a reasonable living from them without have to resort to importing cheap nasty foreign labour.

 

Australian companies can not pay people bellow the minium wage. Most pay above the minimum wage.

 

Maybe this is happening?


MACKAY cabbies are being pushed out of their jobs by Indian drivers who are willing to earn less money to secure employment.


http://www.dailymercury.com.au/story/2010/02/19/low-wages-put-indians-in-taxi-drivers-seats-mackay/

 

After reading more and more rants about Foreign workers, I am left to ask WHY? Sure, Australia would appear even on government figures to have more than 600,000 unemployed (for whatever reason). Australia would also have great difficulty filling many jobs. I propose it is for several reasons.

People are not prepared to move or travel to their job. With 600,000 people unemployed, If they do not wish to go where the jobs are then it is irrelevant to complain, that their are so many unemployed with so many jobs.

Another thing is that Australian workforce expect far more from the employer than foreign workers. For example, recent flood events pushed workers in one Australian export company to travel a further 70km travel to work and due to route this would take an extra 1.2 hours to travel. The workers demanded not only the added cost to be reimbursed also to be paid the hours traveling. Is this considered acceptable?

The Australian workers ethics have fallen well shorter than previous generations. Many workers believe that the company should feel privileged to have them on site, and to expect them to work, that is just not done.

I have watched several companies I have dealings with import workers (so to speak) because they can not fill these jobs, I have seen production drop in one area by 80% by Australian work force, so while negotiating there Enterprise agreement they could show they could increase productivity IF THE WORKERS GOT WHAT THEY WANTED.

Do foreign workers carry on like that?

It is easy to complain about the importation if foreign workers, it is harder to find a solution.

 

I have operated a business for over 20 years, and there is one major lesson I learnt early on thanks to hard working honest parents, and that is: a business is a two way street. Without the business the employee makes no money and without the employee the business makes no money, so both are equally important to the process.

Too many businesses in Australia, and its the majority of the foreign owned ones who wnat a quick fix to success and greed. That comes with lowering skill-sets, wages and staff conditions all to make a profit quicker. They are the ones who want to import cheap foreign labour, because they know that Australian workers will not work for the insulting small salaries offered or the poor working conditions, whereas imported foreign workers will.

These rats are killing our country and its time we got rid of them - buy them out and send them packing back to the shyte-hole where they originated from.

 

I hope they really are coming here to work and not just to suck off our welfare system.We have enough of those barging their way into OZ here by boat. We don't need anymore.

 

Surely with 600,000 unemployed we can train and find 1000 taxi drivers without resorting to bring in more foreigners on 457 visas.

Lets get some Aussies driving taxis' who can speak English and know where they are going for a change without us having to direct them!!

 

You are a decidedly odd race but distinctly more tolerable now we have taken back our rightful place as Number One Cricketing nation .

Firstly , you have a Topic about 50 Irish who are being sought as Drivers .
Next it is 1000 Greeks . How mad is that , other than they might be dirt cheap .
I fancied the idea of 2000 Americans
Then 5000 Russians -- if you were smart ( not really an OZ talent) you would bring in Russian women , except your ugly women would scream murder .
You have moved it on to Indians , which saves me posting about 10000 Chinese .

To help out you not over bright Roos --- bring in beautiful Russian women , train them as drivers and then export them all over the world .That way you will get double profits --- nudge , wink

 

good grief the pomme is right, except about the cricket, if that's it's rightful place, why is so seldom there?

 

What if the English hadn't Invaded/Settled/Colonised Australia and the Greeks had of.
Would they need to import taxi drivers?
Now I won't sleep tonight.

 

I wonder if we could engage some of those boat people who barged their way into OZ to work as taxi drivers.Or are they too busy sucking off the Aussie Welfare Teat to bother with such a mundane thing as work, and dont really care about their responsibilty to the country that gave them, and their flock of dependents, boundless welfare.