• Mpatch@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Amazing to assume that a franchise out in cottage country makes anywhere near the same revenue as one in down town toronto. What would you say is market wage? $20 per hour $25 per hour $35 per hour?

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        7 months ago

        I’d also add that Tim Hortons are franchisees, and they’re almost always a) very very wealthy, b) some of the most rapacious capitalists around, combining the worst of large/corporate inhumanity with the worst of small-business hustle, and importantly c) a very large voice when it comes to influencing local members of provincial and federal parliament.

        As icing on the cake, a lot of them are also large-scale property investors.

        There’s a lot of whitewashing going on by labelling these people as “small-town business owners” or “mom-and-pop donut shop owners”, but that image is largely a relic, and these people, today, are very, very rich, very very influential and are pushing some very, very toxic economic policy.

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        6 months ago

        Temporary foreign workers are supposed to fill skill gaps in the economy when not enough qualified workers exist, not to supply cheap labour when employers want to improve their bottom line.

        Even then it seems like the “temporary” part gets ignored. There should be some requirement to invest in local training for any specialized position that’s needed long term/multiple times.