Posted on 08/08/2023 10:23:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The government decided it was better for the Mob to run the Unions, than the Communists.
Seconded.
They are real refugees from a European Christian country. Which still reveres large families.
Piss off the Replacers today, bring in 5 million Ukrainians and their families. The plains of Western Canada are full of their relatives, working farms in Saskatchewan and Manitoba since over 120 years ago. Those are the people opposing TrooDope.
When we get Trump back in and ramp up production even more, Bakken will need every guy they can get.
The end results are the same. The sheep are controlled and the Government controls the controllers. Everybody is happy. The sheep believe that they are still free. They believe that the 2024 election will be honest.
You mean there’s still a North Dakota oil industry? I thought Biden and DC had finished that off.
I live in Minot ND, right in the eastern edge of the Bakken.
Those jobs are long hours, long weeks, often away from family. Physically demanding, risk of exposure to toxic gasses, let alone simply risk of injury. -30 winter work outdoors, 90-95 summer work under the sun. You stick with it you can make very good money. But even the money doesn’t stop the high turnover, because it’s a young mans game. The oil companies will hire anyone with a clean driving record, pass a physical and a drug screen. Plus they’ll give you a signing bonus. They still can’t get enough men and women to fill the crews. (The women typically and downloading well extraction data, doing safety inspections, and the light-medium physical tasks.)
True. But they are vacancies which means not enough Americans want the job. If every position was filled, they would be looking elsewhere.
The Ukrainians who came here in the late 19th and early 20th century are hard workers but a cliquish lot.
10% for the big guy
At a minimum they should have deported a like number of illegals.
Also I would imagine a lot of Ukrainians have experience in the oil industry.
They hire drivers too
Look out for the foreign drivers.
They will cut you off in a blink of an eye
Again, pay American wages and Americans will do the jobs. If any openings, then the issue is wages are too low, company not making effort to recruit and hire Americans. You get what you pay for and want. I’ve hired over 500 people in last couple of years and know this point explicitly.
Which is the very reason these others are getting the jobs
Probably many openings are unfilled because ND only recently began drilling and pumping again. I think I saw the figure that the oil companies needed oil prices at $70 or $80 a barrel before they would start up again. So I suspect they are in what I would call the demothballing phase. Lots of openings, but the old crews had long since moved on to blacker pastures.
I spent 4 years in the central middle west, and told my husband I would NEVER move back there. It would destroy our marriage. Ukranians are accustomed to the bitterly cold and roasting hot central continental climate which is a lot worse in ND than where I was. My experience included a week of winter from 26 to 20 below, and a week of summer from 105 to 107 degrees, no night below 93.
One thing many Americans do not realize is that Putin invaded Crimea and sent the little green men into eastern Ukraine 2 years (2014) after Ukraine signed oil exploration contracts with several major US oil companies. Gas around Crimea and oil and gas in eastern Ukraine. This caused cancelation of the exploration contracts. Putin did not want Ukraine to “invade” his European oil market. So instead he invaded Ukraine.
That has worked out well for him hasn’t it!
Personal Experience: Mid-Atlantic location. I recently had X-finity WiFi installed in my home. The two technicians who installed both the exterior and interior wiring were Ukrainians. They were tall, fit men around 30 and seemed slightly embarassed when I expressed sympathy for the Ukraine war.
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