Didn't our PM just say yesterday that we have a labour shortage?
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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No one wants a labour job.
I work at a large factory and we have been short staffed for years. At every level too, guys to sweep the floor, machine operators, heavy equipment operators, and maintenance people.
When you tell kids "if you don't stay in school you'll end up working in a factory" you get a labour shortage.
If you can't find workers, pay more and people will come. It's not a labour shortage. It's an abundance of greed.
My baby boomer parents worked in factories because they could afford a family and buy a house. I don't work in that factory because wages are stagnant. There's no incentive for employers to increase them when you can simply exploit overseas workers who will work for a pittance.
There is no labour shortage.
Probably doesn't help that, at the very least, there's a stigma about those jobs not being able to provide a comfortable living. I know I'd sweep floors if it paid $50 an hour.
My wife's father worked carpentry in a factory.
Carpentry.
He has a retirement and a decent pension. He ate shit for his 30 years, and now he can putter in his woodshop all week.
That's last-gen. It's not so long ago that the good life was still within reach. It can be again.
Its for quite a long time now. I graduated as an international student and couldn't find a job. Same thing with some other students from my college.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An RBC report published in January stated that while Canada's population has been growing quickly, it's students and new graduates driving the increase in the unemployment rate, not newcomers.
Friday's fresh data highlighted that youth are "bearing the brunt" of the labour market downturn, RBC economist Carrie Freestone, who co-authored the report, told CBC News.
While only part of the rising unemployment rate can be explained by layoffs, there's been a significant uptick in job cuts, an acceleration that started in March, Freestone said.
Nareshan, the Carleton graduate, said he might pursue a master's degree to boost his resume — he suspects that, with so many layoffs across the tech sector, he could be competing with more experienced candidates who've recently lost their jobs.
"So I thought getting a degree in social work versus something similar like psychology or sociology, it would be a bit easier for me to find a job after graduating."
"The reason why we have a five-year alumni policy is because we understand that sometimes it takes a while for students to get a job after they graduate," though that sometimes depends on which industry they're applying into, Li told CBC News.
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