Why are American workers becoming harder to find?

Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by oblio on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:18AM (#27419587)

And here I was thinking that undesirable jobs have to pay more to attract employees.

Instead, because the power relationship between companies and employees is imbalanced towards companies, who can afford to not hire a few employees while individual employees can't afford to starve, these employees have to accept suffering for a pittance because hey, there's a slight risk of inflation (while companies have been bailed out to the tune of a few trillion).

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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by kwhitefoot on Monday June 07, 2021 @03:09AM (#27419881)

> the power relationship between companies and employees is imbalanced towards companies,

This is why low wage workers should unionise.

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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by oblio on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:35AM (#27420344)

Most companies practice union busting.

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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by ikrenji on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:06AM (#27420506)

well lets outlaw union busting and actually enforce it -> problem solved

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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by Qwertious on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:32PM (#27450684)

Ah, but that's why companies employ political lobbying.

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