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Bulgarian workers/Keelings - read OP (threadbans listed)

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  • #92
    Atlantic Dawn
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    GDY151


    In reality we shouldn't be growing fruit here commercially, it's unviable with our wage structure and living expenses.


  • #93
    not yet
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    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    That's some leap.

    Not to a dickhead it's not..


  • #94
    whisky_galore
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    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    My local SuperValu sells keelings and also their own brand. Gonna ask them who they buy their own brand strawberries from. Won’t be buying keelings anyway. This is business suicide.

    DONT BLAME THE STRAWBERRY!

    Dont cod yourself. Probably picked by migrants somewhere in Europe. Own brand stuff is as cheap or cheaper than branded, hardly picked by our fine strapping Irish people with college degrees and Ph D's.


  • #95
    Scotty #
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    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Cheerio Keelings. This will be a disaster for them. All over social media now also.
    You do realise Keelings is no longer just a little farm at the back of the airport right?? It's a massive international organisation. Almost ALL fruit and veg sold in this country, both imported and home grown, passes through Keelings.
    ted1 wrote: »
    They wont be paying more than €350 a week. So...
    Another who hasn't a clue what their talking about. There's pickers in Keelings so fast and efficient they make several hundred PER DAY. As I said already, these are numpty's flown in because they're cheap. They're flown in because they're really really productive.


  • #96
    osarusan
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    Keelings quaking in their boots at the thought of a boards boycott.


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  • #97
    Antares35
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    Most Irish people would be too up their own holes to work picking fruit. The usual "coming in here takin our jobs and wimmin" by those who wouldnt get off their bums to save themselves from a house fire.


  • #98
    Notdeco
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    declanflynn wrote: »
    If Keelings had their 200 pickers made up of hairdressers, beauticians office staff and so on the fruit would be rotten and the company would be broke
    Go play some video games and be that burden so.


  • #99
    sasta le
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    If i have to pick friut so be it


  • #100
    Graham
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    It's been common for years across the UK & Ireland that Eastern Europeans fly in for fruit picking season. The main reason being the locals don't want that type of work.

    I don't get the logic here. The same people that were panic buying bogroll a couple of weeks ago now think we should leave food to rot in the fields.

    Guess what folks. If we stop picking/harvesting/delivering, then the sh** will really hit the fan.


  • #101
    GooglePlus
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    Everyone cooked up at home with all that pent up energy, taking it all out on a fruit company doing something they've done for years at this time of year.

    I'd be surprised if you can find anyone fresh out of work and on the Covid payment willing to go pick that fruit for the money instead.

    The well-being of our country card won't work either, they're to be self isolated.


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  • #102
    Donald Trump
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    These fellas are probably paid on task anyway.

    So for all ye wannabe pickers out there, fire away. You might find out at the end of the day that you're handed 25 quid while the Bulgarian fella beside you is smiling with his 100 in his arse pocket.


  • #103
    declanflynn
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    Notdeco wrote: »
    Go play some video games and be that burden so.
    stay off the drugs mate


  • #104
    Thelonious Monk
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    I don't get why anyone is surprised by this. Who do you all think does this stuff usually? There would be zero chance of filling these positions with Irish people, they had a drive in the UK for this recently and one local ended up taking a job and lasted a day.
    As things stand Irish people are never going to do this job. I did it for 2 weeks once picking kiwis, back breaking work!


  • #105
    whisky_galore
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    In reality we shouldn't be growing fruit here commercially, it's unviable with our wage structure and living expenses.

    Yet here we are. Someone is doing it.

    Should we just grow schpuds and praties?


  • #106
    mgn
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    tonysopprano wrote: »
    Remember this is only the start. The government have given permission for 1500 romanian and hungarian workers to be flown in on charter flights.

    So much for a lockdown and not being able to move more than 2km from home.

    This was the point i was trying to make, no one should be brought in except the the likes of doctors,nurses and health care workers.


  • #107
    Tenzor07
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    In reality we shouldn't be growing fruit here commercially, it's unviable with our wage structure and living expenses.

    Rubbish, Ireland rates highly for food security.

    The more food we can produce here the better it is for the environment, no more shipping blueberries from Brazil!

    The panic buying would get out of control if the supply chain was affected by natural disasters or conflict in another country which grew our food, or if the food we did grow lay rotting in the fields.


  • #108
    mulbot
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    Graham wrote: »
    :confused:

    Were they hoping to go and pick the strawberries?

    This, from a moderator. Shameful


  • #109
    lawrencesummers
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    Has anyone told Gemmtrails?

    The utter confusion she will have about which side to give out about will be great to watch.

    Foreigners coming her to work but Openly flouting the restrictions.

    She could well have a meltdown to make it an even number.


  • #110
    Healio
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    So no outrage at Ryanair then for flying them in?


  • #111
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Dont cod yourself. Probably picked by migrants somewhere in Europe. Own brand stuff is as cheap or cheaper than branded, hardly picked by our fine strapping Irish people with college degrees and Ph D's.

    I’m just wondering if they are also bought off keelings.


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  • #112
    Tenzor07
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    mgn wrote: »
    This was the point i was trying to make, no one should be brought in except the the likes of doctors,nurses and health care workers.

    Who's going to feed the Healthcare workers?


  • #113
    lawrencesummers
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    Healio wrote: »
    So no outrage at Ryanair then for flying them in?

    Or Dublin airport for letting them land.


  • #114
    Thelonious Monk
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    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Rubbish, Ireland rates highly for food security.

    The more food we can produce here the better it is for the environment, no more shipping blueberries from Brazil!

    The panic buying would get out of control if the supply chain was affected by natural disasters or conflict in another country which grew our food, or if the food we did grow lay rotting in the fields.

    Most of our food is baby powder and beef. It would be great if we could diversify. For e.g. North County Dublin grows 55% of the fresh produce in Ireland, surely more of Ireland can grow same?


  • #115
    GooglePlus
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    Healio wrote: »
    So no outrage at Ryanair then for flying them in?

    Aaargh gabble gabble Ryanair aaah wugga wugga luggage allowance.


  • #116
    Notdeco
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    Donald Trump wrote: »
    These fellas are probably paid on task anyway.

    So for all ye wannabe pickers out there, fire away. You might find out at the end of the day that you're handed 25 quid while the Bulgarian fella beside you is smiling with his 100 in his arse pocket.

    I did it as a kid, and you were paid by quantity.
    Not hours, I did eat quite a bit though. Loved me some strawberries


  • #117
    lawrencesummers
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    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Who's going to feed the Healthcare workers?

    They can pick their own food on the way home.


  • #118
    Scotty #
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    Donald Trump wrote: »
    These fellas are probably paid on task anyway.

    So for all ye wannabe pickers out there, fire away. You might find out at the end of the day that you're handed 25 quid while the Bulgarian fella beside you is smiling with his 100 in his arse pocket.
    This is it exactly. I know lots of people who've picked for Keelings over the years. I'm from St. Margarets. None of these lads are working for minimum wage or anything like it. They work in teams and are well oiled machines. They'll work here for the summer and then off to Spain/Italy/Greece to do the same through the winter.


  • #119
    Healio
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    lawrencesummers wrote: »
    Or Dublin airport for letting them land.

    Im looking forward to my cheap strawberries anyway.


  • #120
    colm_mcm
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    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    My local SuperValu sells keelings and also their own brand. Gonna ask them who they buy their own brand strawberries from. Won’t be buying keelings anyway. This is business suicide.

    DONT BLAME THE STRAWBERRY!

    Go for the strawberries that pick themselves?


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  • #121
    Tenzor07
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    Healio wrote: »
    So no outrage at Ryanair then for flying them in?

    Nope. If it wasn't RA it would have been some other charter company.


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