A worker shortage crisis has kicked off a bidding war between farmers and contractors for shearing crews.COVID-19 border restrictions and drought-breaking rains combine to create a skills "crisis" in the sheep industryShearing Contractors Association of Australia secretary Jason Letchford said some producers were paying shearers premiums of between 20 and 50 per cent per sheep in an "unofficial auction system".
"But we've seen the marketplace burst in the last three or four months, with smaller farming enterprises going directly to shearers paying somewhere between $4 and even more than $5 a head to shear those sheep.Dubbo farmer and Australian Wool Innovation's Craig French says there is increased demand for contracting teams.
. Why don't we just introduce laws to pay workers less rather than forcing farmers to pay matket rates? Oh, because that's stoopud... yep. This is sarcasm over the celery article...
Yes. It's a market. Supply and demand.
It's almost as if relying on cheap imported labour was a bad idea...
A labour market in action
Only men need apply
Too hard a wotk for a generation of entitled snowflakes. Maybe help if they change the title of shearer to manager or team leader of animal welfare?
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