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Tourism industry losing workers to mines
The Queensland Tourism Industry Council is making a plea to the federal government not to be sidelined by the mining boom.
The council’s Daniel Gschwind will meet with the Federal Tourism Minister, Martin Ferguson at a forum in Brisbane today, along with members of the mining industry.
“We employ more than twice as many people in the tourism and hospitality industries than the resource sector does now in even difficult times for the tourism industry and that employment and that regional and local economic benefit from the tourism industry continues to flow,” Mr Gschwind told ABC News.
Mr Gschwind says workers are leaving for better paying jobs in the mines.
“That’s from masters of ships who may have driven tourism boats before and now drive boats that supply and support the resources sector,” he said.
“We lose coach drivers, we lose hospitality staff and that is an issue we need to address.”
By Alex Harmon · July 10th, 2012 at 11:26 am
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10 Jul 12
1:27 pm
Mr Gschwind’s comment “Workers are leaving for better paying jobs in the mines” says it all. I keep in touch with a bunch of grizzly old work mates from the mining and construction industry here in Australia through things like LinkedIn, and the money those be-bearded blokes are able to command makes my eyes water. Sure, in many circumstances they’re living 6km from the middle of nowhere, but with reasonably user friendly FiFo rosters, and employers who are clearly willing to provide as many of the home comforts as they can… the down sides of those sorts of living and working circumstances are very much being offset by the swags of loot each one of ‘em is hauling in. (And was it Scotty only a few short weeks ago who wrote on here something along the lines of ‘FiFo, FiFo, it’s off to work we go’?)
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