Crops will 'rot in the ground' without offshore fruit pickers coming into NZ, Auckland grower says

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[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They claim it's specialized and labor intensive.

It's probably terrible work.
Picking fruit out of trees 'n shit.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it will be some illegality in pay. You can't legally force people to live in overcrowded accommodation, then take inflated payment for that and food that they have no choice about from their wages, taking them underneath the minimum pay threshold, for example.

I did a lot of fruit picking in my youth. Its easy work, out in the sun. The trees are pruned really short. sweet as