Yarra Trams offers foreigners lucrative tram depot jobs

 

Yarra Trams is advertising in the UK for a driver and depot manager. Picture: Nicole Garmston

 

YARRA Trams is recruiting foreigners to manage its depots even though many locals are looking for work. 

The tram operator has posted job vacancies for the position of tram driver and depot manager on job websites in Britain, offering salary packages of up to $140,000. It includes sponsorship under the skilled ­worker 457 visa program.

Over the past three years the company has advertised a number of lucrative positions, including performance managers and business unit managers, under the 457 temporary visa scheme.

 

A look at one of the jobs advertised on a UK website.

 

More than 10 Yarra Trams employees have 457 visas.

Yarra Trams also employs a UK recruitment agency.

Rail, Tram and Bus Union, Tram and Bus Division secretary Phil Altieri said local workers were outraged.
“There are a lot of Australian workers. Don’t tell me they couldn’t find an adequate manager on our shores,” Mr Altieri said.

“They have no regard for Australian workers. It should be Australian jobs for Australian workers.”

CLICK HERE TO READ THE AD ON THE UK WEBSITE.
 
Mr Altieri said the tram operator had recently sacked some long-serving managers and replaced them with overseas managers.

Yarra Trams spokesman Simon Murphy said it employed workers on merit “regardless of nationality” and the role had been advertised locally.

“Of the 30 roles currently being recruited, 28 of them are being advertised only in Australia,” Mr Murphy said.

He said some highly technical roles often required a global search, and “we make no apology for attempting to recruit the people who are most capable of improving Melbourne’s tram network”.

Shadow minister Jill Hennessy said the Government had a track record of outsourcing Victorian jobs: “Surely the appointment of locally skilled workers with a knowledge of Victoria’s transport system would make more sense.”

heraldsun.com.au 35 June2014

While there is a staggering amount of Australians out of work, the corporate politics is to import 'slave' labour into Australia, so that the rate of the Australian 'wage' earner falls dramatically, with huge benefits to follow for the corporate sector.

This is the politics of 'globalisation', destroying Australian families, where bankruptcies and mortgagee defaults are hidden from the masses.