Fruit pickers sorted

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minestrone replied

20 March 2020, 15:00
Originally posted by WTFH View Post

Travel ban?

Ah yes. The Travel Ban

Wondered when the Wail would start using CV-19 as an excuse.

Is there some underground network of dull feckers on this forum that collectivised and demanded representation on the moderating team?

'CUK Friends of the Uninteresting' or similarly titled group that I am currently unaware of?
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vetran replied

20 March 2020, 14:56
Originally posted by WTFH View Post

Travel ban?

Ah yes. The Travel Ban

Wondered when the Wail would start using CV-19 as an excuse.

yeah its just the Wail

Tayside and Fife farmers in urgent plea for those laid off due to coronavirus to work for them during harvest - The Courier

Coronavirus Kent: Fears for farming firms as workforce is hit by Covid-19 outbreak

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...n-coronavirus/

Covid-19: Fruit pickers need workers as borders shut | RNZ

Coronavirus travel bans create '''serious concerns''' for Queensland'''s fruit-pickers on holiday visas
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WTFH replied

20 March 2020, 14:49
Travel ban?

Ah yes. The Travel Ban

Wondered when the Wail would start using CV-19 as an excuse.
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vetran started a topic Fruit pickers sorted

20 March 2020, 14:45
Fruit pickers sorted
Farmers call for an army of Land Girls - and boys - to help pick fruit and veg | Daily Mail Online

Farmers call for sacked hospitality workers to be turned into army of Land Girls - and boys - to help pick fruit and veg because travel ban means they have lost thousands of foreign workers

Travel bans mean farmers have lost the help they need to work in the fields

British Summer Fruits fears produce will rot in fields and orchards

The industry will be mounting a large-scale recruitment campaign for workers
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