Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
No!
Food Shortages
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
your side gave us austerity
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I don't think the idea of short term visas is going to work tbh, It doesn't matter how many visas the government authorises it can't actually make people apply for them. If you've got an in-demand skill then you can afford to be pickier about what offers you take which means it has to be made worth your while. I would imagine that if UK firms can't attract enough UK HGV drivers by offering ever more money, then they will really have to up the ante to attract Polish or Spanish ones.
Pre-Brexit there was the extra attraction of bringing your family over and settling down in a country which might offer your family more of a future if you stayed put. Now of course places like Germany and France are still offering those benefits whereas the UK is just offering temporary bunce which means they will probably have to offer a lot of it.
For unskilled workers like chicken factory workers the net can be cast wider but still without the whole brighter future thing as a benefit. It's still just come here get some dosh and go home be that to Romania or Bangladesh for that matter.
No matter how much they wriggle and demand government action at some point one of three things will happen, Wages rise enough to start attracting local staff, work and jobs are offshored to places where cheap labour is still available or it becomes more and more cost-effective to automate things.
Supine
Newt Member
The elephant in the room is our aging population and the fact that not enough replacement workers are being born to support them. Labour constraints, particularly in vocations that are a young persons game, are going to get worse as time goes on because of this.
Germany realised this and took in a million refugees to stock up a new younger generation.
Germany realised this and took in a million refugees to stock up a new younger generation.
klang
klang
dunno, poor people who don't have work available to them locally?
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Not according to many brexiteers i believe.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I see there's a shortage of warehouse workers as well as HGV drivers.
www.reuters.com
I'm convinced the recruitment industry is at least partially to blame for all this stuff. Agencies and consultancies have worked so hard for so many years to run down companies' ability to do basic company stuff like recruitment and payroll for themselves, and to add as many extra steps to those things as possible so they can skim another 10% off of each one. Everyone gets fucked by this. Workers obviously pay for it all, directly and indirectly; but companies also lose out when they become dependent on so many entities that do only one thing, and are only able to do it in the specific set of circumstances they were set up to make an easy profit from. Which is fine. If you're a shit company and you go bust because you've farmed everything out to other shit companies, I won't shed too many tears. Unless that company provides food or electricity or something important...
British warehouse worker shortage triggers up to 30% pay spike
Warehouses in Britain are having to pay up to 30% more to recruit staff after a chronic shortage of workers exacerbated pressure on already buckling supply chains and threatened to derail the run up to Black Friday and Christmas.
www.reuters.com
I'm convinced the recruitment industry is at least partially to blame for all this stuff. Agencies and consultancies have worked so hard for so many years to run down companies' ability to do basic company stuff like recruitment and payroll for themselves, and to add as many extra steps to those things as possible so they can skim another 10% off of each one. Everyone gets fucked by this. Workers obviously pay for it all, directly and indirectly; but companies also lose out when they become dependent on so many entities that do only one thing, and are only able to do it in the specific set of circumstances they were set up to make an easy profit from. Which is fine. If you're a shit company and you go bust because you've farmed everything out to other shit companies, I won't shed too many tears. Unless that company provides food or electricity or something important...
ska invita
back on the other side
Good (incomplete) round up of the shortages
Shortage problem: What's the UK running low on and why?
Shortages are one thing we don't seem to be running out of in the UK right now.
www.bbc.co.uk
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Good (incomplete) round up of the shortages
Shortage problem: What's the UK running low on and why?
Shortages are one thing we don't seem to be running out of in the UK right now.www.bbc.co.uk
It's fine, there is still booze.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
When I worked at an RDC 30 years ago it was good money, with shift bonuses etc and endless overtime - compensation for the antisocial hours as 6-2 and 2-10pm shifts never meant you could have much of a night out (pubs still shut at 11 then). Intervening decades have seen agencies and cheap labour bring those warehouse work rates right down, so good to see a correction happening.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Good (incomplete) round up of the shortages
Shortage problem: What's the UK running low on and why?
Shortages are one thing we don't seem to be running out of in the UK right now.www.bbc.co.uk
Round here there is a shortage of antibiotics.
Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
That'll be those lefty Doctors panic subscribing penicillin.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Liberalism at its finest. We cannot do other than feed the needs of Capital.
Of course those migrants workers in Germany do not face any discrimination at all, nor has there been any attack on workers pay and conditions, mini-jobs are bot a thing.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
It looks like its just not American and European ports that are getting stacked up. There's ships off the coast of China that can't move either. There's more than 142 container ships waiting in port of be loaded, but no one to load them:
www.freightwaves.com
There's now 67 ships waiting to be unloaded in the Post of Los Angeles. This really shows how just in time production and delivery can be problematic. It also shows how much of the manufacturing base has moved overseas.
I went for groceries yesterday and found that there was very little as far as paper products. Food was ok, but personal care products were only stocked one or two deep on the shelf. My friends with dogs are saying they're having trouble getting dog food.
Container ships now piling up at anchorages off China’s ports
Trans-Pacific traffic snarl is bicoastal: More container ships waiting off Shanghai and Ningbo than Southern California.
www.freightwaves.com
There's now 67 ships waiting to be unloaded in the Post of Los Angeles. This really shows how just in time production and delivery can be problematic. It also shows how much of the manufacturing base has moved overseas.
I went for groceries yesterday and found that there was very little as far as paper products. Food was ok, but personal care products were only stocked one or two deep on the shelf. My friends with dogs are saying they're having trouble getting dog food.
maomao
普費斯
Dogs can eat cats if things get tight.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
So can we for that matter.
maomao
普費斯
Dogs taste nicer I reckon. And they'll be nice and fat after all those cats.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I've had dog stew. Its not too bad.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Very common in Hanoi's old quarter.
maomao
普費斯
I nearly ordered dog in a restaurant once but my mother was there and threatened to walk out if I did. Have been told cat is very stringy and not that nice though.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Some elders on the Pine Ridge Reservation still eat it, but you don't see it much any more. Its easier to just to run to the store.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Haven't had cat. Dog is pretty stringy too.
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