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Foreign-worker issue incites frustration
Frontline tension builds: MP 5-year Custom Jeff Nagel Black Press
tions that some McDonBC Restaurant and ald’s outlets in Victoria Foodservice Association used temporary foreign president Ian Tostenson workers from the Philipis hoping for a quick end pines instead of available to the moratorium. Canadian workers. “We have asked them Sims cautioned that the to put the brightest issue is creating tensions people in government in workplaces and urged together with industry people not to jump to MP Jinny Sims to work out a solution,” conclusions about who Tostenson said. “Otheris a foreign worker. wise you are going to see “Every time you walk in and see businesses scale back or close.” a brown face working at McDonHe said the public wrongly alds does not mean they are a tem- assumes foreign workers are used porary foreign worker,” she said. to save money, when the main McDonalds has since ended its reason is the lack of workers willuse of temporary foreign workers. ing to work at the times required.
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