Where do they find skilled labour?

Swift Current is welcoming new friends from the Philippines this week.

Tomorrow, they arrive from a far away country and most have never seen snow.

Four Filipino workers are coming to Swift Current on a work visa for Rem Enterprises. By the end of the year, the farm equipment and components manufacturer will have a total of 12 skilled workers from the Philippines.

Noreen Volk is the Human Resource Manager at Rem. She says eventually the workers will be joined by their families, within six to eight months.

A "Welcome to the Community" supper and social will be held at the Swift Current Public Library on February 24th.

For community members interested in labour and immigration issues, there’s a monthly Labour Attraction and Retention Committee meeting at the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow at noon.