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Visa row over foreign workers
14 Dec 2006
The Australian meat industry is trying to persuade the Federal Government to allow foreign workers to counteract labour shortages. The move coincides with an investigation into 457, the government’s controversial immigration program. In March the Federal Government stopped approving visas for the meat industry after unions raised allegations of exploitations of foreign workers. The Meat Industry Council stated that necessary livestock slaughter has increased due to the drought and has amplified labour shortage issues. Conversely, Graham Bird, the Meat Workers Union secretary, thinks that the labour shortage would be temporary, and that once the backlog is cleared slaughtermen would again be short of work.
Sydney Morning Herald, 14/12/06
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