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Sugar seeks workers
11 Aug 2008
The Sugar industry can not find enough workers to harvest cane without going overseas to recruit and import skills. In the face of a mining boom in the Bowen Basin where skilled workers can earn up to $130,000 per year, the sugar industry has downsized, consolidated and recruited many workers from overseas. Hundreds of Filipinos are working in Queensland''s Sugar industry on 457 working visas, many brokered by industry group, Canegrowers. Some farmers are working in mines during the week and relying on elderly parents *or* working their farms on the weekend. There are now 4,000 workers in the Sugar industry, down from 6,500 in 2001.
The Australian Financial Review, 11/08/2008
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