Highlighting a so-called skills shortage and making the case for government intervention on behalf of the corporations to help reduce "costs" (how much they pay

Highlighting a so-called skills shortage and making the case for government intervention on behalf of the corporations to help reduce "costs" (how much they pay their employees). Of course the great irony is that the same corporations calling for government intervention to help restrict pay would be screaming bloody murder if the government acted to curtail their profit margins in any way.