Their insane policies of discouraging people to go back to work has ships backing up in massive quantities.
This is killing the economy, shutting down even more businesses because they can’t get products to keep their company going. Many large companies are having to shut down due to this as well.
If you aren’t going to fix it so people have incentive to go to work, at least call in substitutes, National Guard, illegal aliens, something. This is going to tar you all if you don’t fix it next election.
It’s not just here. The whole world is struggling with labor shortages. It’s like once people got off the hamster wheel, they don’t want to get back on.
The west coast part of my Union… IATSE is voting to strike over quality of life issues because the Pandemic put into perspective what people were missing by working 70+ hours a week.
Unemployment ran out last month… and the entertainment industry went back to work September 2020.
The producers guild does not want to cut back on hours or hire more people. They would rather work people 70+ hours a week and allow for only ten hours between each work day all at a lower wage.
That is a treadmill that people don’t want to be on anymore.
More like can’t do that when they’re not willing to pay people enough to want to work for them in the first place. Literally no one is getting unemployment due to the pandemic at this point. That ended a month ago.
There is more going on here than increased unemployment but a more pervasive problem in the trucking industry with a labor shortage, high turnover and aging workforce.
