Help wanted. Must be willing to do back breaking work at fast pace for 8 hours with very little rest - plan on being in a lot of pain on a regular basis. Work in filthy conditions breathing God knows what into your lungs, constant risk of serious injury (cuts and scrapes daily) sometimes no bathroom or running water on site. Pays around $15 - $25 per hour with no benefits at all and everyone will look down their nose at you. How many of you would line up for this? There is no such thing as a labor shortage - just employers who refuse to pay enough to attract workers.
Eric The Red yes I totally agree no such thing as a laborer shortage just greedy selfish owners. If there’s such a shortage then why valuable workers miss so much time
Depends on where you live. Physical work is not a negative in my opinion. I like making six figures in the NYC area. I know it would be tough to make even half of that in Florida.
Basic solution: raise the wages and benefits of construction workers and lower the wages of predominantly lazy female jobs like accountants and secretaries where you have construction workers and police officers earning more money than accountants and human resource professionals that do nothing but sit on their asses all day and gossip about how their bosses are earning more money than them
I’m not surprised. Trades used to be taught in the high schools as well as trade schools. The government put us on the “information highway “ and the nods have no idea what a blue collar job is. The fluctuation in construction employment didn’t help either.
Why should government-run schools teach skills so companies can have a future batch of low-paid workers? Companies need to bear the burden of training if the job is low paying. Ask any white collar, high-paid pundit if they would suggest their children or loved ones to go into construction and you will have the answer to why there's a "shortage."
I used to work construction management , our job was to keep costs down at all costs, than any money we made would get kicked upstairs to the owners and we'd be givin a crappy bonus
Increase pay
Help wanted. Must be willing to do back breaking work at fast pace for 8 hours with very little rest - plan on being in a lot of pain on a regular basis. Work in filthy conditions breathing God knows what into your lungs, constant risk of serious injury (cuts and scrapes daily) sometimes no bathroom or running water on site. Pays around $15 - $25 per hour with no benefits at all and everyone will look down their nose at you.
How many of you would line up for this? There is no such thing as a labor shortage - just employers who refuse to pay enough to attract workers.
I do all of the above except for $43.73, great insurance, and pension with retirement at 55.
Eric The Red yes I totally agree no such thing as a laborer shortage just greedy selfish owners. If there’s such a shortage then why valuable workers miss so much time
Depends on where you live. Physical work is not a negative in my opinion. I like making six figures in the NYC area. I know it would be tough to make even half of that in Florida.
Basic solution: raise the wages and benefits of construction workers and lower the wages of predominantly lazy female jobs like accountants and secretaries where you have construction workers and police officers earning more money than accountants and human resource professionals that do nothing but sit on their asses all day and gossip about how their bosses are earning more money than them
I’m not surprised. Trades used to be taught in the high schools as well as trade schools. The government put us on the “information highway “ and the nods have no idea what a blue collar job is. The fluctuation in construction employment didn’t help either.
Why should government-run schools teach skills so companies can have a future batch of low-paid workers? Companies need to bear the burden of training if the job is low paying. Ask any white collar, high-paid pundit if they would suggest their children or loved ones to go into construction and you will have the answer to why there's a "shortage."
To the 4 people sitting on this panel I take it they have never had to construction work at all.
By the looks of them I bet my life savings on it
Back breaking work for $12 per hour. GTFO.
Yeah especially when gas station cashier jobs are paying 16 to 20 an hour
I used to work construction management , our job was to keep costs down at all costs, than any money we made would get kicked upstairs to the owners and we'd be givin a crappy bonus
I am a 32-year-old young man from Korea. Is there a way to work in America?
I thought they mistakenly used a photo of Hong Kong protester.
So raise pay. This is good. Rising wages. Trump 2020
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