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Originally Posted by 81MC
Million times over. The shortage of tradesman isn’t a lack of able bodied persons with a desire to make a good living. It’s the absolute absurdity of the trades pay scales, and there is no doubt in my mind that suppressing wages is a tactic to force governments hand at increasing access to foreign workers. For substantially less money out of the employers pocket.
Trades should be the most vocal opponent to foreign worker programs that are actioned before wages are brought up. $30-$40/hr for journeyperson Red Seal skilled trades. Yeah, that’s wages pushing people away from trades into comfortable office jobs for similar money, not a lack of labour.
Foreign workers is (largely) bull#### corporate tactic to hold staff wages down.
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I’ve seen this first hand. Advertise jobs at $10 to $15 dollars less than the going rate. When they go unfilled, petition the government to allow you to bring in workers from Asia because there isn’t enough local skilled workers.
With the trades, they should have to offer the union pay and benefit scales before they can declare there is a skilled labour shortage. This idea would never fly here because union is a four letter word.