A thank you to Brexiteers.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Same as over here in Portugal , the fruit pickers, refuse collectors from last poor East European countries plus a new source of cheap unregulated labour from Nepal
er myself for a start.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Show me a recruitment advert, just one, in the UK for fruit pickers. I doubt they made any effort at all to recruit here.the times has a story today about how the bulgarian fruit pickers have been replaced this year by people from far further afield, whoever agrees to come here basically, with their flights paid for by the farm owners. This doesn't seem particularly better or more sustainable tbh.
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Hunt for fruit pickers extends 6,000 miles as shortage bites
Fruit pickers are being flown up to 6,000 miles to the UK from Barbados, Nepal, Tajikistan, Kenya, the Philippines and elsewhere because farms cannot find Britwww.thetimes.co.uk
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I just checked..I’m wrong, there are loads of adverts.
bimble
floofy
Nobody is ever actually wrong on this thread its just that facts are sometimes annoying.
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The government set up this 'campaign' which was a farce. Hardly any adverts on it, unless you drove tractors or could spray crops from a plane.
The website was down a lot and full of glitches plus dead links.
Still, more money spaffed up the Brexit wall.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Back in the day lots of people from London went hop picking in Kent and Sussex for several weeks in the summer. Don't suppose there's a tradition of hipsters or gentrifiers doing that thoI guess people living in Brixton aren’t the target audience for farming jobs
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
All into crypto currency mining
mojo pixy
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And care work. Lots of that still available locally (I guarantee there's an understaffed care home within 10 mins' travel of almost every poster on the boards' current location)
The government could mandate a minimum wage of £12/hr for care staff, which would pretty much solve the sector's understaffing problem by the end of the year. But they won't because despite 'pRoTeCt TeH VuLnErAbLe' by making care staff have covid jabs, it's just fine to leave their homes understaffed (which is way more risky for residents). 'Well that's the market, folks!!11!"
The government could mandate a minimum wage of £12/hr for care staff, which would pretty much solve the sector's understaffing problem by the end of the year. But they won't because despite 'pRoTeCt TeH VuLnErAbLe' by making care staff have covid jabs, it's just fine to leave their homes understaffed (which is way more risky for residents). 'Well that's the market, folks!!11!"
ska invita
back on the other side
Well that's a start. Im down the last three years. You might be right, maybe this is more widespread. FT report a general fall in average wages this year... Matches my experience, but experience is just anecdote
ska invita
back on the other side
Lots of people on pay freezes or out right cuts since Covid.... Depends on the industry.
Inflation will be going up so even small wage increases should follow. But lots of parts of the economy have shrunk a lot the last two years.
I started at my job on 6.25 some years ago. Thought my 11.25 now was an improvement but putting it in the inflation calculator it's a modest increase.
Sir Starmer supposedly going to commit to a £10 minimum wage. By the time of the next election it's not going to be much of an increase tbh. And still below the London Living Wage
Post-Brexit checks on EU imports delayed again - BBC News
The government blames Covid and supply chain difficulties as it puts back changes.
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ruffneck23
front left
Yeah I also remember when I was signing on in Tottenham back around 93-94 they tried shipping us off to Butlins to work for the summer so they do have form. Cant remember how I got out of it...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Allegedly?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Still, it’s not all bad, things like this surely make it all worthwhile 
Been posted a few times now but these are the Sunlit Uplands we lost billions of pounds for, not to mention the global embarrassment.
Yossarian
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Meanwhile, in the US, the driver shortage is so acute that the National Guard is being called in to drive school buses in Massachusetts - if Donald Trump was still in power, he'd probably be saying that it shows the border wall is working.
www.nbcnews.com
Massachusetts deploys National Guard to help with bus driver shortage
90 Massachusetts National Guard members begin training Tuesday in four cities, Gov. Charlie Baker announced.
www.nbcnews.com
HGV driving test changes 'risk to road safety' - BBC News
The Road Haulage Association warns planned changes present a step backwards when it comes to safety.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
Brexit and Covid take Liverpool pub's giant pork pies off menu
A pub could be without its giant pork pies for the first time in years due to delivery issues.
www.bbc.co.uk
Yossarian
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Brexit and Covid take Liverpool pub's giant pork pies off menu
A pub could be without its giant pork pies for the first time in years due to delivery issues.www.bbc.co.uk
Seems like the headline could also be "Supplier's Refusal to Pay Competitive Wages Delays Pork Deliveries."
Or, "No Pies for Anybody Because Capitalist Pigs Won't Take a Smaller Slice."
That is it 100%
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Soz who made that video and why should I trust it?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Every time I go into a pub I see pretty much every glass is branded and a different shape. I suspect breweries supply pubs with glasses advertising their beers. So if as I imagine pubs are getting many glasses free why would they buy these crown ones?
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