I have a small construction company. It will stay small because I cannot find anyone who wants to work. It is the same with anyone I talk to who is in the biz.
Offer more money, you get what you pay for. Or go out of business.
Some states are reinstituting the welfare work requirements for able-bodied. But a lot aren’t, even though official employment numbers are excellent. Who wants to work when they can get half as much for doing nothing (above the table anyway)?
Skilled construction workers will stay scarce though.
Any luck inquiring at high/vocational schools for help?
“I have a small construction company. It will stay small because I cannot find anyone who wants to work. It is the same with anyone I talk to who is in the biz.”
Absurd. You are simple not willing to pay what the labor market will bear. If you only offer the wages Mexicans will work for, then yes, you won’t find anything but Mexicans.
Lame argument.
My father broke me in to
hanging Sheetrock when I
was in highschool, late
60’s/early 70’s. Petaluma
California at that time,
had a huge housing boom.
Most on the jobsite were
young white guys, with a few
blacks. No Hispanics that I
can remember.
I suffered an accident that
caused a sudden turn in my
choice of vocation. In the
42 years doing what I do now,
to what was then, is a dramatic
shift from paying someone a
decent living wage to
those that are willing to
do the same job for far less
than I was earning way back when.
Trades were handed down from
father to son. That trend was
lost when cheap “illegal”
labor broke that tradition.
I wish I were 35 years younger.
I’d be more than willing to
work at being one of your
best. I really miss those days.
(posted on Cel phone,
I apologise for the
format)