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Good news-SKYCON win order for Europe's largest onshore windfarm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/gla ... 378524.stm

Superb news!

nice! so glad to hear it =)

Excellent news

Brilliant news!

i'd like to know why locals cant get a job?

was hoping to move back to the town and tried out at skycon and didn't get a job

is it because i cant speak polish? seems to me if you can then you get a job yet if you are local then you can't!!!

I have a relative who works at Skykon and the place is over-run with Polish people. Most of them can't even speak English. Interveiws took place about 6 weeks ago and hardly any local people got taken on........yet since then approximately 30 Polish men have been employed.
Another annoying fact is that the majority of the Polish men are here alone with their families still back in Poland. They earn their money in Scotland and most of it gets sent to Poland. Its just not fair on the locals trying to get work.

bud wrote:is it because i cant speak polish?

No Bud, it's because you speak English, are local and prefer to be employed through the front door rather than sneaked in the back.

Isn't there a Health and Safety issues about employees working in industry who can't take instructions in English??

Another point is the M.O.D are housing these Polish workers at the base at Machrihanish ,is this really what the community voted for when they voted for the buy out and what is it doing to put money into the local community ?

it does not seem the best situation.

are there no Polish football geniuses amongst them to catapult The Pupils to the very top again?
Are there not enough of them to start a Poland football team? now that would be very interesting....almost the plot for a Whisky Galore/Local Hero/A Shot at Glory type film.

History wrote:

bud wrote:is it because i cant speak polish?

No Bud, it's because you speak English, are local and prefer to be employed through the front door rather than sneaked in the back.

sums it up. i'm cheesed off about the whole thing since i heard that there are workers who cant even pass the test set but get a job elsewhere

now i find out they are being housed out at the base with a lorry seen this week delivering new tvs, washing machines, the lot and i cant even get a house in campbeltown! think i will have to move up the road again which is sad as id quite like to wait in campbeltown and be round my family

The issue of E U immigrants working at Skycon was mentioned on the forum in a previous thread.The consensus was, what does it matter,it's still bringing prosperity to the town.
Someone also mentioned the irony that it was a Danish company,so why not give jobs to Poles etc.I for one do not see how an influx of E U immigrants who will send a very big percentage of their wages home can be beneficial to the local economy.


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Advert in this week's Oban Times recruitment section for a company in Taynuilt. Quote:

"Must be able to speak, read, write and understand English."

That'll rule out some of the locals then.

bill wrote:The issue of E U immigrants working at Skycon was mentioned on the forum in a previous thread.The consensus was, what does it matter,it's still bringing prosperity to the town.
Someone also mentioned the irony that it was a Danish company,so why not give jobs to Poles etc.I for one do not see how an influx of E U immigrants who will send a very big percentage of their wages home can be beneficial to the local economy.


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I must agree with this. We are stuck with a system within the EU that allows freedom to economic migrants to travel at will to wherever they will gain the greatest benefit. Obviously they will migrate to the more prosperous countries. Ultimately, the long term effect of this can only be the insidious transfer of national wealth and the dilution of the wealth of the more prosperous countries.

By the same token, local economic development can really only be of benefit to the local economy if employment opportunities are primarily available to the local community. The importing of a workforce to an outlying area defeats the whole purpose of creating employment in such areas.

I have read the comments about Polish Worker's getting jobs at Skycon. One has to ask the question were there applicants within the local unemployed suitably skilled enough for the jobs on offer by Skycon. If that answer is no then Skycon are within their rights to employ workers from anywhere within the EU for the skillsets required at the same rates of pay that would be paid to UK workers. If the rates of pay on offer to the Polish workers are lower than what would be paid to UK workers I would assume that Skcon will be in trouble with the unions.