Damn, maybe you should pay more than what people can collect in unemployment and see if that fixes anything.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard an industry representative say that they can’t find anybody to fill open positions. Then I ask what they pay and it’s a comically low number for a skilled position.
If you can make more sitting home than busting your ass working 40 hours a week, the issue isn’t what you’re making sitting home.
I was on a call for work with the President of a large USA based Hand Tool manufacturer- he said they were operating at about 80% capacity despite 100% demand right now. It was basically he said their own doing as they assumed the economy would crash under Covid not boom, so they laid off the bottom 20% of their workforce. The company is desperately trying to get this labor gap refilled but to hire just a standard assembly line worker, he claimed it needed to be $25-$28 an hr to get someone off unemployment. He said beforehand it was only like $14. Short end of this- the company can’t meet this wage demand or they have to give everyone raises in the whole company. His gist they wouldn’t be competitive to imports post supply chain disruptions so the jobs are just open right now waiting out the end of the stimulus programs. He’s buying robots instead in the meantime and paying OT.
The goddamn irony. When faced with the prospect of raising wages during a time when employers can't fill spots fast enough, again and again the employers would rather keep people unemployed than raise wages
Whatever will we do with a few less McDonald’s across the country? Have to drive one MORE mile to the next one?
everyone of these large manufacturers I visit or work with have the same answer all the time: robots, always robots “this guy worked for us for 45 years and is retiring, we won’t replace him though- robot is on order”
This is not good, every documentary that I’ve seen where robots replace humans all end up the same way, the robots end up taking over.
Don’t worry, upper management will still receive raises because “they performed despite of a lack of resources and workforce”.
The only way for our businesses to compete with China is to have our workers make minimum wage and our executives to all be multi millionaires. It’s the way of things
Capitalism dictates we buy foreign products built on foreign labor if they are the cheapest option. Any “America First” bullshit is anti-capitalist and therefore anti-American and pro-China. Quidius pro etc, Trump is a commie.
What are they going to do, go crazy and recklessly murder innocent groups of people day after day? American innovation of cops and sexless white dudes are going to keep those jobs in American hands
I will absolutely replace any CEO for 95% of their salary + benefits to go to company boards and go " hrmm uhh robots? " I'm a sweet deal I guess I'll go play golf with some harvard b school assholes too
I had a similar conversation with the head of a large manufacturing operation who said he’d hire 1000 people today if he could find them. He then of course said he’s competing with people sitting on their couch due to the stimulus so I pretty much zoned out after that.
I'm dying to ask one of these pieces of shit if they're even trying to pay a salary that's higher than what they think people are getting from unemployment.
But how can upper management and boards of directors afford their 3rd summer home if workers make a living wage.
Ohio 15 Congressman Steve Stivers announced today he will not run in 2022. He took the lead job at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. He is the former chair of the house fundraising arm for congressional Republicans, the NRCC. His district is the southern and western counties outside Columbus. It used to be competitive, Stivers actually lost in 2008, but it was redrawn for 2012 and has not been competitive since. No one knows what the 2022 map will look like, but it’s getting difficult to gerrymander Columbus. Two of Ohio’s three R districts which were within single digits border the OH15, as does the blue OH3 which is packed at 69%.
I’ve done it a few times and the justification is typically somewhere between “personnel is already my highest cost” and “I pay my people once they’ve demonstrated loyalty”
Which is funny because lack of loyalty is one of the easiest ways for people to quickly get a raise in the 21st century.
Pete was on the Breakfast Club today. Didn't hear anything but the last 10 seconds so who knows how that went.
Funny thing is for being a cracker ass cracker they loved him when he went on there during the primary.
Journalistic tip: Don’t ask the president to weigh in on cases currently at trial. Maybe ask something useful instead.
She's like if a rich white millennial who attends Coachella in full Native American face paint and headdress, got elected to the United States Senate. Just pure cringe, white privilege and lack of self awareness.
do not get how Sinema thinks this helps her in any way ..so Young Republicans of Arizona State will love it who will vote for her Republican opponent? Immigration is where she really can be hurt . Immigration Activists(Dreamers) knocked on a lot of doors to help get Kelly and her elected . and I think it is no coincidence that Arizona is the only State where Biden didn’t underachieve w Hispanic voters. Sinema betraying them to Bro down with Turtle McConnell won’t end well for her.
I've read from a few big immigrant organizers on Twitter, who aren't shockingly very leftist, that are pissed at her behavior and know a lack of real tangible help to those poorer communities will cause them to not vote in large numbers again. Hopefully another poll will come out soon, but the last one showed her down 10 points compared to Kelly who didn't shit on the minimum wage increase being tied to the last stimulus bill and who doesn't daily smell his own farts and talk about how great the filibuster is.