Employers: If You Want Workers, Pay a Living Wage

[signalmankenneth]

Well Duh?

The sudden shift from “we love our essential workers” to “they’re living off the government dole” seemingly happened overnight.

Across the country, local media coverage has been filled with stories of business owners lamenting that they are unable to fill positions as economies reopen.

“We are short-staffed. Please be patient with the staff who did show up. Nobody wants to work anymore,” reads a sign outside a McDonalds drive-thru window in Texas, according to a viral internet video.

These viral anecdotes, in addition to a weaker than expected April jobs report, have raised concerns over a labor shortage in the United States and how to best address it. The Wall Street Journal reports a record 8.1 million job openings across the country.

But it’s not that people don’t want to work — it’s that they don’t want to work for so little.

Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments who raised the starting wage at his company to $70,000, recently said

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It turns out there’s no “labor shortage” — just a shortage of people who will work for starvation wages, especially during a pandemic that’s hit low-wage workers the hardest. What we are witnessing now is a reckoning and reassessment of the future of work.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/...-a-living-wage

[Sailor]

Pipe down welfare boy.

[Mr.Badguy]

Chipotle going to 15 an hour. The free market at work. Or at least trying to work lol.

[tsuke]

This is true as long as the govenrment is willing to continue the current level of unemployment support and eviction moratoriums forever.