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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I thought the just solution to labour shortages caused by the pandemic (or any other reason, really) is to pay people more. That’s certainly a widely held opinion here when it comes to workers not going back to work in restaurants, etc.
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Well to a degree this is happening everywhere, the problem for the UK is the scale they have inflicted on themselves and the total dependence on migrant labour they fell into pre Brex/covid.
You never see 'English' kids working in restaurants or coffee shops the way you do here, its all Polish or Romanian, my mums care home's staff was almost totally Polish except management, crop picking, all agricultural work is migrant, the country is wholly reliant on migrant labour and the effect of covid and the massive racist unpleasantness of half the UK to 'foreigners' these days means most of the workers have just gone home.
The UK is now short about 100,000 truck drivers, the pay has gone up massively, so all the bus drivers have quit transit to pick up truck work so the bus system is grinding to a halt now but it's still not nearly enough, it will take a couple of years to train the drivers needed and companies just cant wait that long, they are close to bankruptcy because of Covid as it is.
Yes wages will go up but the massive rapid damage this is doing to the economy is also going to 'fix' the labour shortage and not in a good way for the UK, companies are going to close or just relocate into the EU