Junge Winnipeggers sagen, dass sie ihr Bestes geben, aber die Jobsuche ist immer noch schwierig. Einwanderungspolitik und Mindestlohnerhöhungen sind für Jugendarbeitslosigkeit verantwortlich: Think Tank

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It’s all over Mb! One of my kids is working a job they despise and putting up with abuse, only staying because they know there’s nothing available in our community and their friends can’t find anything either. My other two kids cannot get hired anywhere. It’s ridiculous that they thought bringing over fast food workers from a different continent was a solution to something (not sure what). I also cannot get a doctor and we are priced out of our dream retirement home. These three things are related!

Saw a statistic that a bunch of young Americans escaping the states are going to Canada. Don’t recall the numbers, but Canada has a welcoming immigration policy.

So there’s no blame on the businesses and corporations that look for every avenue to lower their labor costs because someone else needs to get richer. We just accept the state of the world and blame our labor problem on the immigrants that do the labor for cheaper because the business isn’t willing to pay the rising minimum wage for Canadians. Canadians don’t do the work at the lower wages, for a number of reasons, someone will, unfortunately. Our world is so messed up when we are just ok blaming everyone but the businesses and corporations, the CEOs, the shareholders, the profit above all approach. Capitalism is disgusting.

Fraser Institute. What a surprise.

Alberta is calling

Immigration? Maybe. Especially if we are looking at it from the „cheap and exploitative labour“ angle.

Minimum wage? Well, there are two ways of looking at that.

On the onehand. One could argue young Canadians aren’t working those jobs because minimum wage is *too low* for them. Well, that, or they aren’t willing to do certain jobs. I can only speak to my experience in agriculture, but you can try and pay individuals 30+ dollars an hour and they still won’t work the agricultural jobs unless they are desperate. If you are paying minimum wage? Well, I expect you aren’t going to get much interest from young people, *even if they are desperate*.

Now to which people will say, „Of course they don’t! Nobody wants to do manual labour or work with heavy machinery, especially for minimum wage!“ And maybe so. I suspect young Canadians view agricultural jobs, service jobs, government jobs, industrial jobs, etc, in the same light. That is not worth the time for what they getting payed. Yeah, I suspect that’s possibly true.

On the otherhand, one can make the argument that employers are either unable to afford more employees at the current minimum wage, *or* current hiring practices and education requirements are unreasonable. Perhaps both.

*Or maybe!*

Employers aren’t particularly interested in hiring young Canadians? Which could take us back around to the immigration angle.

Honestly, I suspect it’s a combination of factors. Immigration and minimum wage are just potential parts of it. Employer/employee relationships, employee representation and respect from management, hiring practices, the allure of cheap importable labour, education, cost cutting, and even expectations. Are all factors here.

For the headline to boil it down to „immigration and minimum wage“ is disingenuous at best.

Of course, this is apparently from Fraser Institute, so I’m not surprised.

> The post-pandemic surge in Canada’s youth unemployment rate has never been seen outside a recession and was even higher than rates seen during downturns in 1981, 1990 and 2008, according to a report by the Fraser Institute published in April.

Since when did the CBC start citing the Fraser Institute?

It’s the rich hoarding wealth and working with skeleton crews to improve their profits. It’s not immigrants and it’s not minimum wage. They just want you to blame the poor so you don’t go after the rich who actually are the cause of all this.