Thursday, September 06, 2007

Under way II.



Pouring of the footings. A four foot wall will go up on top of that.

Counted eleven Nainimuks and three “others” on the job. Granted the majority of locals are there for the hard yakka. Since things started in earnest there have been three locals and three “others” on the job.














I only mention Nainimuks [locals] and “others” for the fact some people make an issue of how many local people get hired for some of these jobs.
Most of the larger projects here are done by outside contractors, they invariably bring some of their own people in and hire locals in a support role, or as mentioned the hard yakka.
There are varied reasons why this is, some valid some questionable, but I wont go into them now, truth be told I don’t know all the reasons.

3 comments:

Paradise Driver said...

I give.

What is "hard yakka"?

Brian said...

http://www.yakka.com.au/index.asp

Ozzies use the term when talking about some one working hard manualy. Bloody hard yakka mate!

Dogbait said...

Hard Yakka is something I'm trying to avoid nowadays!

Hard Yakka is also a brand of hard wearing work clothes in this country.