Child Labour in Alberta
fred22 @ Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:35 am
So because wages are inflated in fort Mac that means they are everywhere in Alberta? Try finding an apartment to rent there with two bedrooms for less then 2000 a month. That works out to a lot of ten dollar an hour hors to work.
Even with higher wages that means children now all of a sudden understand all their rights under labour law and will not be taken advantage of right?
Kids that young ought to be studying or playing not working some shit job so they can have the latest pair of overpriced jeans or other bullshit. Later in life the study time lost will count and the flashy whatever will be long forgotten.
Market forces should not be setting certain what are in essence moral choices. Very young children in a province this rich should not have to work. they should have aduquate education and health care not an opportunity to be a dish pig so their future will suffer. By the way I find it interesting that the Klein soloution to a labour shortage is the bullshit which is CLAC, child labour and importing cheap foriegn labour. real patriotic stuff.
Cheers
fred
MidianKnight @ Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:50 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
exroofer,
I read your post again and I'm just aghast that you would put children in the workforce for any reason. If Alberta has a labour shortage they need to pay more money to attract workers, not stoop to making poor kids work in industry.
You fall back on the 'parental consent' but that argument is empty. If parents can put their kids to work so they can have extra money for a new car, a jet ski, or a gambling or drug habit then they will do so.
These abuses of poor children is why we passed child labour prohibitions in the first place!!!
I read your post again and I'm just aghast that you would put children in the workforce for any reason. If Alberta has a labour shortage they need to pay more money to attract workers, not stoop to making poor kids work in industry.
You fall back on the 'parental consent' but that argument is empty. If parents can put their kids to work so they can have extra money for a new car, a jet ski, or a gambling or drug habit then they will do so.
These abuses of poor children is why we passed child labour prohibitions in the first place!!!
I totally agree, "Bart." Something else I wonder, too: What effect is it going to have on an adolescent's psyche and development working in a bar--with/exposed to all the booze-hounds, outright alcoholics, and overcompensating testosterone-fuelled FUCKING IDIOTS that Calgary bars are packed to the rafters with most any given night? Nothing good, I'm sure...
I think this is going down because the Alberta Rich People's Republic gov't knows the inflation/artificial scarcity/corpoRAT monopoly-driven "bubble" is about to burst--on all levels, and more and more people outside Alberta are seeing this, too, which is why they're starting to think twice before coming here. From what I've heard, more and more are leaving for the same reasons, too. Correct me if I'm wrong, but...
At this rate, how long will it be before we have legalised sweatshops in this province? It's already happened. Ref.: Lakeside Packers (Brooks, AB) exploitation of its' Sudanese (mostly) workers pre-union.
This is disgusting beyond description, but not at all surprising...
"All hail...Dystopia!" (Mille Petrozza)