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Originally Posted by jfman
Doing the same job here they have the same costs of living as people living here. I don’t see how this is any different from driving down the wages of British people by importing cheap labour instead of allowing market forces to drive wages up.
I fail to see the benefit over upskilling our own workforce.
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Because that takes time!
Yes, ideally we should.
But let's not forget we have shortages
now, especially in key sectors such as nursing, HGV driving, etc, mostly they have unfavourable conditions and require some skill to do.
Nursing is now graduate entry, has been for some years; even if right now the gov decided to do a massive drive to get more nurses, it'd take about 4 years to have a fresh, inexperienced group of staff ready to start. No good if we need them now. Even then once they're out there, they are working demanding 12hr shifts (I'd definitely make this 3 8hr shifts not 2 12 hr ones) in not exactly comfortable conditions so not sure why a lot would.
Likewise HGV drivers, the pay is cack, the working conditions are not much better (if you need the loo and there's no services, but have to make your schedule which is timed to the second) even when you've trained...
Most people won't do it, better for them to get their UC and watch sky tv all day...