Right-wing outcry over foreign ski instructors (Austria)

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Source: Austrian Independent

A right-wing newspaper has expressed concerns over safety on the slopes and wage dumping as more and more ski instructors on pistes in the Austrian Alps are foreigners.

The Kronen Zeitung’s report has it that around a third of the 6,000 ski instructors working in Austria this winter are foreigners, most of them Germans and Dutch. Germany and the Netherlands are the most important markets for the Austrian winter tourism industry.

The Viennese newspaper also writes that a soaring number of ski teachers from Eastern Europe (EE) has been registered. The daily has campaigned for "shut borders" to stop the "wave of organised crime gangs from Eastern Europe" to Austria for many years. It now claims that the alleged share of around 30 per cent of foreigners among ski instructors working in Austria may reduce the average income in the sector.

The debate over foreigners teaching people to ski in Austria may merge with the ongoing discussion over the rising number of seasonal workers in Austrian tourism. An overall 7,500 seasonal staff from non-European Union (EU) states are currently working in various sectors of the Austrian economy such as tourism and agriculture. Italy employs around 80,000 non-EU staff while Hungary registers fewer than 1,000. Both of these countries, which border Austria, are EU members.

Read more: http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2010-11-30/5495/Right-wing_outcry_over_foreign_ski_instructors

[FSogol]

1. Can they teach me to ski and fire an automatic weapon like in those Bond movies?

That would be so cool.

[happygoluckytoyou]

2. RELATED STORY Tata opens large ski instructor school in Hydrabhad

oh come on.... its just an f'ing joke

[DetlefK]

3. that has been growing over years

For example, the Austrians are mad at the Germans because of all those german students who clog up the austrian universities. (In parodies, Austrians are depicted as cultivated, well-mannered, arrogant and possessing a dark kind of humor.)

And I don't believe that a german or slovenian or dutch ski-instructor does worse than an austrian one.