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43Inches
Execs are just finding out that pilots and other staff are not just another machine that you can switch on or off when things are bad or good. A lot of businesses have found out the hard way that the big reshuffle has left them at the bottom of the desired workplace list and many have chosen other fields to work in. Others just decided to retire earlier, after all we are at the end of the big 'boomer' exodus from the workforce. Its funny to watch business owners that relied on cheap immigrant/backpacker labor squirm now that they have to pay a local proper wages to do it. It does however mean inflation will probably rear up, but meh.
It is a reflection on certain industries in Australia how they have behaved through the COVID pandemic.
Crew suffered significant isolation rules to bring workers in to harvest crops.
Sadly, and possibly a reflection of the character of some of the players, some farmers have then exploited the workers (assisted by a Coalition Government).
And the Australian Government wonder why Pacific nations might be coerced by China. Maybe, just maybe, they pay more to exploit them.