In the US, small businesses that do anything that requires manual labor, and tends to be essential businesses, are really struggling to find employees. Lots of small businesses are really struggling to charge enough to justify covering cost increases in everything. /1
Its an over simplification, especially in agriculture and farming, to just tell business owners to raise wages and make jobs more enjoyable. Farming livestock and fruits/veggies has always been hard work. I think we are in trouble long term feeding ourselves domestically. /2
Roast me if you must and tell me that my business doesn't need to survive. We are at $17+ an hour for starting pay for processing plant workers and get no full time applications. With fuel, labor, and feed spiraling out of control it starts to not work at some point. /3
I will guarantee you I'm not alone in this local and regional processing sector on not being able to find help regardless of pay. /4
It was a great theory to industrialize food and blow up the independent family farm model but we gave up a resilient domestic food supply in the process. /5
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