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<blockquote data-quote="honeyend" data-source="post: 8200998" data-attributes="member: 23108"><p>I have work with some now ex air crew. They found other jobs in covid, and covid gave the companies a chance to change their routes and conditions, as I had explained to me crew get a base wage but it was made up with allowances for stop overs, which have been reduced. The young can perhaps do it for the experience but those who have children and a home to keep are now not going back, these are already trained so to recruit they have to hire, train, and pass all the checks.</p><p> I think a lot of people are on unofficial 'strike', they have left their jobs because of covid and balance if they can manage its now not worth going back. The over 50's, who children are older and perhaps have less of mortgage, but which also are our trained experience workforce, have decided it's just not worth the stress, or go and work in a supermarket and do sixteen hours a week. We are 1.2 million workers short.</p><p> I looked at the newest survey from the NMC, and a lot of the 'new' nurses almost match the nurses that went back on the register for covid, most are over 55, and there are forty four over 70! There has been the will to work and help, but the majority of them, including me wouldn't want to work thirteen hour shifts, or be able to do them.</p><p> No one should be working full time, and having to top up from food banks. I lived through the 70's and even if money was tight, I lived at the side of a large council estate, no one was going to school to get food bags.</p><p></p><p>We have a double stress factor, covid which is causing short and long term sickness, and brexit, which is contracting the labour market. </p><p> The 'churn', from people going from job to job costs money, they make worker redundant, they rehire them they hope, on cheaper rates, and not having to pay a full pension in the future, or through an agency, the agency takes a cut. If they can not get workers, which is already happening in the NHS, they will end up paying more ,plus the training, plus the 'contractor' takes their cut and you get constant staff poaching.</p><p> The government sees business as a solution, that the quest to make profits will make them get the best for our money.( I am being kind, I think they want to help their mates to get our money) Great theory, but its a bit like tax avoidance, they just employ someone who works out how they can hang on to as much money as possible, pay the least tax, and provide a basic service, pay as little as possible to the people who actually do the work, and then only the shareholders or those who get a bonus are happy. Slight of hand, then blame workers for not working hard enough, 'we gave them all this money', and you can just about put any group of the week, in there from farmers to GP's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="honeyend, post: 8200998, member: 23108"] I have work with some now ex air crew. They found other jobs in covid, and covid gave the companies a chance to change their routes and conditions, as I had explained to me crew get a base wage but it was made up with allowances for stop overs, which have been reduced. The young can perhaps do it for the experience but those who have children and a home to keep are now not going back, these are already trained so to recruit they have to hire, train, and pass all the checks. I think a lot of people are on unofficial 'strike', they have left their jobs because of covid and balance if they can manage its now not worth going back. The over 50's, who children are older and perhaps have less of mortgage, but which also are our trained experience workforce, have decided it's just not worth the stress, or go and work in a supermarket and do sixteen hours a week. We are 1.2 million workers short. I looked at the newest survey from the NMC, and a lot of the 'new' nurses almost match the nurses that went back on the register for covid, most are over 55, and there are forty four over 70! There has been the will to work and help, but the majority of them, including me wouldn't want to work thirteen hour shifts, or be able to do them. No one should be working full time, and having to top up from food banks. I lived through the 70's and even if money was tight, I lived at the side of a large council estate, no one was going to school to get food bags. We have a double stress factor, covid which is causing short and long term sickness, and brexit, which is contracting the labour market. The 'churn', from people going from job to job costs money, they make worker redundant, they rehire them they hope, on cheaper rates, and not having to pay a full pension in the future, or through an agency, the agency takes a cut. If they can not get workers, which is already happening in the NHS, they will end up paying more ,plus the training, plus the 'contractor' takes their cut and you get constant staff poaching. The government sees business as a solution, that the quest to make profits will make them get the best for our money.( I am being kind, I think they want to help their mates to get our money) Great theory, but its a bit like tax avoidance, they just employ someone who works out how they can hang on to as much money as possible, pay the least tax, and provide a basic service, pay as little as possible to the people who actually do the work, and then only the shareholders or those who get a bonus are happy. Slight of hand, then blame workers for not working hard enough, 'we gave them all this money', and you can just about put any group of the week, in there from farmers to GP's. [/QUOTE]
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