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Newfoundland's oil ripple effect: As prices fall, commuting workers stay home) j' d0 V. C! n
For years, thousands of Newfoundlanders commuted back and forth to Alberta's oil patch, working three or four weeks at a time and bringing home plump paycheques. Many of them aren't going back this fall. * P, B3 |5 Z4 H& u+ MNewfoundland有数千人来往于阿省与Newfoundland之间, 目的就是paycheques。 0 W* L) ^0 U: A( ]- k
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Darryl Day used to fly from Gander to Alberta and back — 22 days out, 13 days back home. He was recruited at a job fair in Newfoundland six years ago to drive heavy machinery for a hydraulic fracturing company. Those were the "good times." % H+ r9 ^/ S5 {2 t22天在工作,13天回家休息。
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这位仁兄还算走运,在家门口找到一份工,只是钱大大的少了, 只有在阿省工作时的三分之一。 : ]( P; K; w0 k7 lDarryl and Bev Day are better off than many. He got a new trucking job nearby, earning about one-third of his pay in Alberta. They had put some of their "oil money" away, unlike some younger workers, who went cheque to cheque.