Franglais:
Winseer:
A tiered and rigidly enforced minimum wage is the answer…The sort of scheme favoured by left of centre parties, but disliked by Tories, and free marketeers?
The sort of scheme that needs some centralization of pay rates to avoid undercutting and a race to the bottom?Good to see you recognise that the Tories, Farage, and free market carpet-baggers and those who profit from Brexit are against British workers.
Welcome to the real world Mr Winseer.
We’ve yet to see a truly “Capitalist System” implemented in this country, one that involves national interest over international interest.
Brexit - was a way for the average UK worker to block foreigners coming here to flood into positions that without them - would see rapidly rising pay rates, simply due to TRUE supply and demand being allowed to produce true price-discovery in the labour market and rates.
I rather fancied the idea of Post-Brexit Britain being along the lines of the “Guilds” system of long ago.
“If you have a rare skill - you are more highly paid for it”.
We already got there with say, Plumbers, Vets, Doctors, and other specialist, if arguably merely semi-skilled like we Truckers could be considered to be…
But being members of the EU permitted us to import these specialities from there instead of from within our internal jobs market, and within a short space - wages in those fields have stagnated.
My local Plumber is Polish, my local Vet is Italian, My fellow drivers are either older than I am “Brits”, or younger Eastern Europeans, and my GP is Indian, making him at least rather more “British” than the others, complete with Oxford Accent and all.
If you pemit “regions” of the UK to take the ■■■■ when it comes to pushing down wages, terms, and conditions, such as the very low pay rates in Scotland or very poor driver T&Cs in the Costal South East for instance - then the true upside to “Minimum wage” cannot ever be realized, of course.
I’m not in favour of “regional” minimium wage levels, but favour instead “factional” minimum wages, according to profession.
If you are a Doctor, you should expect to be paid more money, because it took you rather more years to acquire your discipline.
Even if you are merely a “Steering wheel attendent” as some one here have described Truckers as - You had to pass a test at the end of a two week course costing well into Four figures - with no guarantee of a “Pass” let alone a “job” at the end of it!
Shouldn’t our profession therefore be treated a bit better than a “Builder’s Labourer” or “Road Sweeper” or “Hospital Orderly”?
What use is a Unionized workforce IF the pay for “Members” is already rock-bottom, so the only thing the Unions can ever protect is the “job itself” rather than T&Cs?
Once one is down to minimum wage, the “race to the bottom” - ENDS. Unions should work along improving T&Cs rather than trying to prevent wages dropping even lower, which legally they won’t be, of course…
Protecting a Minimum waged job? Stuff it! If the pay is that poor, it presumably means there are enough “fish in the sea” that you can routinely let people go at the drop of a hat, and replace them with someone else who can’t even speak our lingo, and may have only just got here, or at least “is obliged to take the job, or be benefit sanctioned”…
Higher-paid work - comes with a risk - it is true.
Agency work, already carrying the highest risk of “instant dismissal” at any time - should therefore carry the highest premiums over what a full timer would get…
But they DON’T anymore - do they?
If you’re lucky, you’ll be paid parity pay on agency where the full timer’s wage happens to be GOOD like at Royal Mail, but where drivers are already on less than a tenner per hour, the agencies supplying that firm - won’t be paying agency much MORE than that - will they?
Brexit has taken so long now - that the rot that has been the past four decades, pretty much since we joined the EEC in 1974-5 - is almost a permanent part of our psyche as a workforce…
Gone are the days when you could “Get ahead financially” by working hard, putting in more hours, getting extra training, taking a dead-man’s-shoes job eventually…
Maybe that was the establishment’s master plan all along? "Make it take so long to implement, that the Brexit Dividend indeed never materializes, at least not in our lifetimes…
Instead, the Establishment that so loathed to spend money on Brexit, so loathe to close our borders sooner, and so loath to lock down people that shouldn’t be on the streets in the FIRST place - have now showered all the wrong groups with the “compensation” for Covid, rather than those who already lose their jobs. This isn’t me btw, as I’m fortunate enough to have got another job, as soon as I realized I’d been “let go” without being told… The REAL trouble starts - the moment Sunak’s handouts come to a stop, as they surely must before long, whilst our debt rises to such an outrageous level, that we risk having that debt called in by the very nation in the world that we should all be resisting right now - China.
Doya think Chinese “Workers Paradise” brand of Communism is for YOU?
Fancy having a poorly paid, and dangerous job in China then?
What do you think happens to a Western country over a trillion indebted to China - once that debt gets called in?
If Trump is now gone, you can kiss goodbye to any notion of “Debt Walkaway”, which at least Trump was expert enough at to offer the other western nation’s a possible way out, once the ultiamte debt collector comes a-calling…
British Lefties - won’t be so happy when their next beloved Labour government spends-a-plenty as they’ve done before, BUT with the new caveat that “more of your life must be under oppression, forever”…
A routine that has argumable already started in what is known as the “Great Reset”…
I’m frankly sickened by Boris Johnson’s apparent shift to the Left and simpering to Biden, who isn’t even President yet.
Less than a year from winning a decent majority, and he throws it all away on THIS behaviour…
Did someone stick a pod next to him when he was in Hospital recovering from “Covid”?
We’re going to need a radical government to get us out of the complete schtuck we’re in.
A future of six-way parliamentary splits though?
How do we ever get anything done again■■?
Even Macron has shifted to the Right now, realizing that he needs to for both his own political survival AND his wider country.
Who’s the bastion of Britishness among our actual MPs these days?
…It ain’t Boris and the Tories, it seems…
Meanwhile, we don’t even hear from Keir Starmer any more “reasons to re-join the EU”…
The Libdems have been silent, and the SNP don’t talk much, once “IndyRef2” and “Covid” are not to be talked about…