Saturday, April 26, 2014
McDonalds Canada CEO and Foriegn Workers
How did this guy become CEO? Or maybe it's his kind of attitude, insensitivity, which is required of a McDonalds CEO. Unbelievable listening to this, how he dismisses the controversy over the Temporary Foreign Workers program as "bullshit." This is a complex issue, where workers overseas, living in poverty, seek work to support their families. There is also an issue of exploitation of labour, foreign workers who may not know their rights, who may fear being deported, and who may accept lower wages and fewer benefits, who would be less likely to unionize.
It is reprehensible that the CEO would refer to "poor maligned employees" in a sarcastic manner, and be more concerned about PR for his firm with disregarding the exploitation of workers.
One more thing, what is this "politically astute" relationship the CEO brags about having with the Conservative Minister? Is Harper's government complicit in this? Only window-dressing to return to the status quo after the controversy passes? Recommend this post
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I think your paragraph and last sentence probably sum up the reality and the relationship there, LD.
ReplyDeleteLorne, it is very sad state of affairs. I hope Harper is dumped in 2015. As far as McDonald are concerned their only criteria is how to make more money.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that I have never understood about the difference between capital and labour. One can have a pile of money up to the sky, but a person has only one person-day. If each person has only one person-day to add to the labour market, which is in fact the most valuable commodity? Money in fact, means nothing without labour. Micky d's can own all the real estate it likes, but in order to actually exist, someone has to flip the damn burgers.
ReplyDelete131220, you're so right. Also someone has to buy the burgers and if people cannot afford it then Mac can make as many burgers as they want but there will be very few buyers.
ReplyDeleteYou missed what in my opinion is the overriding issue here and that is that Canadians under this TFWP are being robbed of their jobs by a corporate fascist government who have launched class war on its own people in order to fill the pockets of a few greedy CONservatives and their friends in high places on the backs of the poor and disenfranchised in this country, never mind those from other countries as well.
ReplyDeleteJohn Prince, you make good points, my friend. I agree with you.
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