Wage slavery
When in doubt, shaft the workers.
South Carolina will leave the federal unemployment programs providing extra money to jobless residents in light of “unprecedented” workforce shortages across the state, Gov. Henry McMaster announced on Thursday.
The state will opt out of the coronavirus pandemic assistance programs beginning June 30. The federal benefits include an extra weekly $300 to unemployed workers that was scheduled to run through early September.
States’ rights! States’ rights to starve their workers into accepting crap jobs with crap pay and crap conditions.
The labor shortage has affected all areas of the state’s economy, state government officials said, with the hotel and food service industries especially hard-hit. McMaster claimed the shortage was created in large part due to the supplemental federal payments.
Ah yes hotel and food service, where the pay and conditions are notoriously bad. They could always pay more and mandate better conditions, but nah, better to starve the workers and pocket the money yourself.
Why is it that the price of Labour is never affected by the free market theories? If there is a shortage of a product, prices will rise to bring more product to the market. So goes the theory. So how about practicing what you preach and increase the price of Labour and so increase the supply.
Nah, far easier to blame the poor than do any real work.
Last line referring to politicians, not workers. Just for clarity.
Umm… how?! Is he implying that people have decided that workers have quit because it’s easier just to take the federal assistance? I guess he is. Sigh.
He’s a Republican. Of course he is. That’s a required belief to get that (R) beside your name. They make them sign an oath that they will always think the workers are lazy and ready to throw it out the window to take the lucrative payments handed out by the government and sit around with a beer in front of the television living off the hard working taxpayers. If they can’t sign on to that, they will fake it until they make it.
It may fit into the Republican narrative that high unemployment benefits discourage people from seeking work, but that has no bearing on whether it’s true at this particular time.
I have liberal friends that work in the service industry, and their perception is this is absolutely true. Their companies have raised wages a lot and still can’t fill positions. But don’t believe me — Google it and you’ll find reams of stories from reputable news sources saying the same thing.
Yes, maybe the wages being offered are still too low, as is being argued here. But there’s little doubt that these jobs would be filled if we had normal unemployment benefits and conditions.
They’re shite jobs and no one wants to do them. Build robots that do it instead and change your business model.
He’s trying to pressure residents into taking the temporary summer jobs usually filled by migrant workers. It’s not that the people who usually do these jobs are getting the benefits McMaster is talking about … it’s that they’re not coming in the first place because, well, there’s still a pandemic on and it’s more difficult for them to get here.
And god forbid the hotels and restaurants offer competitive wages…
The Real Reason Women Aren’t Applying to Restaurant Jobs
Funny how that works, isn’t it.
Skeletor, your “liberal friends that work in the service industry” – how many of them are there? What work do they do in the service industry? What are their financial interests in the question? Do they all say exactly the same thing about this issue?