You explain to me why a company can put ads in the paper and the internet and they can’t get enough applicants to fill the ranks. Many can’t pass a drug test, many can’t past the skill test and many others won’t produce after they are hired or won’t come to work or don’t want to start out on second shift. I know this first hand, this is not something someone has told me or hearsay. If you have ever worked in a fab shop or industrial construction you can see this first hand. No one want’s to work as an apprentice to learn a trade either, they think they should start out as top pay as a craftsman.
If I offer you less than market value and a reduced benefits package because you know I’ll just hire an illegal or an H1B, then replace you after I make you train your replacement, then you tell me.
Actually I did for a while when I was younger. I saw first hand what greed and market manipulation does to labor markets. Later, I saw what it did to the white collar market.
If you are not getting qualified applicants at the rate you are offering then you have to increase the rate offered. Hiring is not rocket science.