well, Q, you need to have a word with our delightful Home Secretary!! - I think you'll find that fruit pickers, along with care workers, etc etc are defined as unskilled and earning less that £26k per year or whatever the salary level that was set by Patel... It was nonsense at the time... Farmers round here in the soft fruit business and salad crop businesses have been doing their nut, lobbying hard to get the Govt to relax the rules to make it easier to bring in workers from elsewhere to pick the crops... I have no doubt too, that the larger supermarkets are screwing the farmers to get costs down... all boils down to cheap food... cheap food always comes at a cost, be it to the environment or to human beings, in terms of low wages etc.. anyway, this is probably the wrong thread to discuss here...
Originally Posted by: Chichesterweatherfan2