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Ukrainians find refuge in North Dakota as arrivals fill oil field jobs amid labor shortage
Nypost ^ | 08/06/2023 | AP

Posted on 08/06/2023 11:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Maksym Bunchukov remembers hearing rockets explode in Zaporizhzhia as the war in Ukraine began.

“It was terrible,” he said. He and his wife sent their adult daughter west to Lviv for safety and joined her later with their pets.

Now, about 18 months after the war broke out, Bunchukov is in North Dakota, like thousands of Ukrainians who came over a century ago.

He is one of 16 new arrivals who are part of a trade group’s pilot effort through the Uniting for Ukraine humanitarian program to recruit refugees and migrants during a workforce shortage. Twelve more Ukrainians are scheduled to arrive by Aug. 15 as part of the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s Bakken Global Recruitment of Oilfield Workers program.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Dakota; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: labor; northdakota; oil; ukrainians
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Great, just great..🙄
1 posted on 08/06/2023 11:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I believe the unemployment rate in North Dakota is 2.5%.
And I am not sure many of those that are unemployed are people you really want to hire.


2 posted on 08/06/2023 11:33:01 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t Zelenskyy order all men and transvestites, 6 to 60 to report to the front?


3 posted on 08/06/2023 11:35:52 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More jobs Americans won’t get.


4 posted on 08/06/2023 11:40:17 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would take 1,000 Ukrainians (or Russians) over a single Muslim.


5 posted on 08/06/2023 11:40:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re coming to Atlanta also. A very nice family of them just came to buy a dresser from us we had listed on Craigslist. Let them all come to counter act the gazillion Somalians and Nigerian and Muslim animals that have been imported. Not to mention every mestizo Indian in central America.


6 posted on 08/06/2023 11:41:47 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Signalman

There’s nothing to help Americans trapped in the Joe Biden regime......😜


7 posted on 08/06/2023 11:42:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here’s an idea - how about the North Dakota Petroleum Council instead take this money and invest it in local scholarships for trade schools so Americans can have these jobs some day. You remember Americans, don’t you North Dakota Petroleum Council?


8 posted on 08/06/2023 11:46:09 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: Signalman
More jobs Americans won’t get.

It gets worse. Young single Ukrainian women are displacing flabby tattooed hambeasts in strip clubs across the country.

9 posted on 08/06/2023 11:49:52 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Signalman

It was just last week American oil field workers were being laid off.


10 posted on 08/06/2023 11:50:48 AM PDT by bgill
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To: JonPreston

No he didn’t. You really ought to try reading some stuff that isn’t Muscovy vranyo.

Mobilisation has a lot of exceptions for deferment - reserved workers (not all professions) - men with disabilities, parents with three or more minor children, single parents, parents of a child with a disability or serious illnesses, and parents raising an adult child with a disability.

Many fathers accompanied their families out of Eastern Ukraine to Lviv and Poland to ensure their safety before going back to sign up.

Unlike Russia, Ukraine knows that it’ll need its skilled labor when the war is finished. Putin’s throwing anyone he can at the front lines which is why Russians with transferrable skills who aren’t Muscovites have fled Russia to avoid its draft.


11 posted on 08/06/2023 11:51:40 AM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is no labor shortage in Williston. I was there six weeks ago and there’s more Mexicans than you can shake a stick at. I lived in Phoenix, AZ for 30 years and I thought I was back.

I guess the Walmart in Williston will have to dedicate and aisle to Ukrainian food next to the two aisles dedicated to Mexican food.


12 posted on 08/06/2023 11:57:44 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: Drew68

Would be nice for a change to see fit women around everywhere instead of suffering the view of what seems to be mostly “PORKERS”.


13 posted on 08/06/2023 12:14:53 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Ukrainians find refuge in North Dakota as arrivals fill oil field jobs amid labor shortage..”

When Biden finds out he’ll put an end to it.


14 posted on 08/06/2023 12:17:46 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo“What were you doing in the store? You were eating the food?”)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; BenLurkin

Yep.


15 posted on 08/06/2023 12:31:11 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

A polite well-dressed Ukrainian couple are moving next door. Likable, but we have that language problem. A friend of mine speaks several languages including Russian. Will ask her whether she can communicate with them. They’re apparently being resettled by some agency. Pretty young woman brought them here.


16 posted on 08/06/2023 12:43:11 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: Drew68
Young single Ukrainian women are displacing flabby tattooed hambeasts in strip clubs across the country.

This is frightful! Flabby tattooed hambeasts have to make a living too, you know.

17 posted on 08/06/2023 12:43:44 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Young single Ukrainian women are displacing flabby tattooed hambeasts in strip clubs across the country.

They leave The West behind.

18 posted on 08/06/2023 12:44:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

"Meet me in the oil fields of the North Dakota!"

19 posted on 08/06/2023 12:45:01 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

why arent they fighting Ruzzians?


20 posted on 08/06/2023 12:45:04 PM PDT by mylife (I was a sort of country boy, a cockeyed optimist, wrapped in international intrigue and espionage)
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