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Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:35 pm
East End outside of the Watterson, but not afraid to travel for good grub
Chris M wrote:It's not an unwillingness to hire, it's an inability. As was mentioned there is a HUGE shortage of available/qualified workers. Unemployment in Louisville is below 4%. Often the few workers that are available don't live where the jobs are (cause we can't have those darn dark people living in our pretty, white neighborhoods), and we have HUGE transportation issues in this town. In addition, a big chunk of restaurant staff (especially back of the house) and really any minimum wage type position has traditionally been immigrants. Legal and otherwise. Our present political climate is not friendly to immigrants. Especially in Kentucky. So despite the "crisis at the border" over the past few years there have been more people leaving that arriving. So what you have is jobs and nobody to fill them. Which usually leads to rising wages, but since the same people who don't like immigrants also don't like things such as a living wage, workers rights and unions, here we are. You get to wait an extra 15 minutes for your food. Or you could stop voting for selfish racists. One of those.
Carla G wrote:Chris M wrote:It's not an unwillingness to hire, it's an inability. As was mentioned there is a HUGE shortage of available/qualified workers. Unemployment in Louisville is below 4%. Often the few workers that are available don't live where the jobs are (cause we can't have those darn dark people living in our pretty, white neighborhoods), and we have HUGE transportation issues in this town. In addition, a big chunk of restaurant staff (especially back of the house) and really any minimum wage type position has traditionally been immigrants. Legal and otherwise. Our present political climate is not friendly to immigrants. Especially in Kentucky. So despite the "crisis at the border" over the past few years there have been more people leaving that arriving. So what you have is jobs and nobody to fill them. Which usually leads to rising wages, but since the same people who don't like immigrants also don't like things such as a living wage, workers rights and unions, here we are. You get to wait an extra 15 minutes for your food. Or you could stop voting for selfish racists. One of those.
I think you accurately summed up the situation.
Chris M wrote:It's not an unwillingness to hire, it's an inability. As was mentioned there is a HUGE shortage of available/qualified workers. Unemployment in Louisville is below 4%. Often the few workers that are available don't live where the jobs are (cause we can't have those darn dark people living in our pretty, white neighborhoods), and we have HUGE transportation issues in this town. In addition, a big chunk of restaurant staff (especially back of the house) and really any minimum wage type position has traditionally been immigrants. Legal and otherwise. Our present political climate is not friendly to immigrants. Especially in Kentucky. So despite the "crisis at the border" over the past few years there have been more people leaving that arriving. So what you have is jobs and nobody to fill them. Which usually leads to rising wages, but since the same people who don't like immigrants also don't like things such as a living wage, workers rights and unions, here we are. You get to wait an extra 15 minutes for your food. Or you could stop voting for selfish racists. One of those.
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