Workers take up jobs overseas despite pandemic

By The Nation

 

 

Hundreds of Thai workers have decided to take up jobs picking fruit in Sweden and Finland despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

They were seen queuing up to check-in at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday (July 29). 

 

Though each worker has insurance coverage, the Department of Employment has advised them to avoid travelling overseas to countries where the Covid-19 situation is still serious.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30392165

 

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38 minutes ago, webfact said:

They were seen queuing up to check-in at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday (July 29)

I wonder how many of these were repatriated Thais that are now realizing that the jobs they thought might be in Thailand for them will never return.  I understand that the need for berry pickers is very much needed.  Wonder when those who returned from S. Korea will also fly back out to return to the fields there.  Pity that they can not create a stable workforce here for those folks, and instead rely on the Cambodian, Laos, Malaysian, and Myanmar migrant workers to do the grunt work in factories, fields, and construction sites.  The greed factor here amazes me as I know that it is one factor that keeps low wage workers cycling through.

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15 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I wonder how many of these were repatriated Thais that are now realizing that the jobs they thought might be in Thailand for them will never return.  I understand that the need for berry pickers is very much needed.  Wonder when those who returned from S. Korea will also fly back out to return to the fields there.  Pity that they can not create a stable workforce here for those folks, and instead rely on the Cambodian, Laos, Malaysian, and Myanmar migrant workers to do the grunt work in factories, fields, and construction sites.  The greed factor here amazes me as I know that it is one factor that keeps low wage workers cycling through.

The owners are mostly Sinothais who don't care about the rest of the population but just want to make their own families as rich as possible. Sad but true...

16 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I wonder how many of these were repatriated Thais that are now realizing that the jobs they thought might be in Thailand for them will never return.  I understand that the need for berry pickers is very much needed.  Wonder when those who returned from S. Korea will also fly back out to return to the fields there.  Pity that they can not create a stable workforce here for those folks, and instead rely on the Cambodian, Laos, Malaysian, and Myanmar migrant workers to do the grunt work in factories, fields, and construction sites.  The greed factor here amazes me as I know that it is one factor that keeps low wage workers cycling through.

I wonder why the Cambodian, laotian and Burmese don’t go and pick the Swedish berries themselves.

 

i haven’t heard of Thai workers working in the fields in S Korea. They mainly seem to work in restaurants and massage parlours.

39 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

I wonder why the Cambodian, laotian and Burmese don’t go and pick the Swedish berries themselves.

 

i haven’t heard of Thai workers working in the fields in S Korea. They mainly seem to work in restaurants and massage parlours.

My ex wife's 1st boyfriends family all go to S. Korea to work in the Strawberry fields. He and his wife make 60,000 baht a month and that's after paying housing and food. Its why they go there illegally. In2 years they made enough to build a nice house in Udon Thani.

With minimum wages fixed by the Government, I wonder why it is allegedly cheaper to employ foreigners from neighboring countries for unpopular labor. If employers don'y undercut, it shouldn't make anyh difference. Do I miss anything ?

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Hundreds of Thai workers have decided to take up jobs picking fruit in Sweden and Finland despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sod all to do in Thailand except starve.