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As someone who voted brexit partly because I was hoping it would tighten the labour market and help people like my dad who have been competing against foreign l
by kypro 5y ago
As someone who voted brexit partly because I was hoping it would tighten the labour market and help people like my dad who have been competing against foreign labour for years could someone explain why this is actually bad? Long-term labour shortages are mostly myths as far as I can tell. If there is a shortage of labour we have two options, pay more to attract workers or import people willing to accept the uncompetitive wage. In recent years we’ve picked the latter, but it seems now businesses are being forced to pay more. I get this might not be great for business growth, but why wouldn’t this be good for “low-skill” workers?
- prawn 5y agoCheaper for the industry to lobby for many things (like importing labour, etc) before they pay existing workers more?
- orwin 5y agoI did not like brexit (Did not have time to visit most of GB before 2021, Covid did not help). But i think you're right, all those shortages make a labor strike ten times as effective. Imagine homecare worker strikes right now? they can double their pay pretty easely i think. Same for HGV drivers, meat processors etc. The issue is for small businesses. And the fact that NI was basically forgotten by most of the people voting for brexit (and by those making the remain campaign). The pub owner near my place always talk about the Ballymurphy massacre and how his fvourite cousins died there, i suspect him to be ex-IRA. He tells everyone he went back to vote for brexit to make NI people want to join Ireland, and that the effects were better than expected. Not sure if i believe him, but let's agree that the effect of brexit on northern ireland were not thought out.