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Job vacancies surge past one million in new record

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Re: Job vacancies surge past one million in new record

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Post by ndr »

"We advertised locally for 70 fruit-pickers and we had nine applications. On follow-up, only one was still available... in terms of recruiting locally, we failed completely," says Ali Capper, the owner of Stocks Farm in Suckley and chair of British Apples and Pears.

At her orchard, harvest has just started. It must be done quickly and requires many pairs of hands.

Ali had to turn to specialist recruitment firms and has brought in seasonal workers from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Russia.

What's a reasonable prediction here? Higher wages and more expensive fruits? A bunch of farms going bust?

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Post by kubb »

ndr wrote: post #11

"We advertised locally for 70 fruit-pickers and we had nine applications. On follow-up, only one was still available... in terms of recruiting locally, we failed completely," says Ali Capper, the owner of Stocks Farm in Suckley and chair of British Apples and Pears. At her orchard, harvest has just started. It must be done quickly and requires many pairs of hands. Ali had to turn to specialist recruitment firms and h…

Work camps where exploited eastern europeans live in horrible conditions, their rights are violated, they get underpaid and a substantial portion of their wage goes to the agencies acting as middle men.

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Post by meheleventyone »

ndr wrote: post #11

"We advertised locally for 70 fruit-pickers and we had nine applications. On follow-up, only one was still available... in terms of recruiting locally, we failed completely," says Ali Capper, the owner of Stocks Farm in Suckley and chair of British Apples and Pears. At her orchard, harvest has just started. It must be done quickly and requires many pairs of hands. Ali had to turn to specialist recruitment firms and h…

In this case the jobs were always done by foreign seasonal workers. I dunno if Brexit has made them more expensive but I'd imagine they are less easily available.

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Post by Clepsydra »

have_faith wrote: post #7

There's a huge amount of people holidaying within the UK instead of going abroad. I wonder how many millions (billions?) are being captured in the internal market that would otherwise be spent elsewhere. Definitely part of the fuel driving the economic rebound, lots of people's holiday savings being released locally, and the middle class has generally been increasing their savings pots over the lockdowns.

"lots of people's holiday savings being released locally"

True. But the UK have missed out of millions of foreign tourists.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/tourismindus...

Re: Job vacancies surge past one million in new record

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Post by api »

Good. Wages must be forced up. You can’t have a modern economy without a capitalized middle class.

Real estate is so ludicrous we need quite a bit of inflation to make it reasonable again. The alternative would be a deflationary crash where real estate crashes and obliterates everyone’s home equity, but that is far more painful to virtually everyone.

Re: Job vacancies surge past one million in new record

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Post by yunohn »

stayfrosty420 wrote: post #6

this is good for wages but I am concerned about the resulting inflationary pressure.

I think this illustrates the problem with the modern capitalistic society we’ve built for ourselves:

“I’m happy wages are going up, but I’m sad it’ll mean my spending power will go down”

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