Originally Posted by
davidclarke
I still maintain there is NO pilots shortage. Just a shortage of pilots willing to work for low pay and conditions. The apparent shortage can be remedied overnight by fixing the aforementioned.
Australia has 1000s of expat pilots overseas that would come how if this significantly improved. There is one person responsible for the previous 10 years of downwards pay and conditions, and he sits at the head of Coward St. Unfortunately upper level management are to ignorant to see.
That can be said for all job shortages in Australia. Shortages of hospitality staff, pickers, nurses, teachers, paramedics it is all the same issue. No one cares to work for whats on offer, both pay and conditions, so less than needed join that occupation as they can do other things they enjoy and earn enough to live. Pre Covid a lot of those jobs were filled by cheap immigrant labor or backpackers looking for pocket money, now somebody has to pay livable wages to get staff. The only problem is by pumping so much wage growth into these large industries you also kick inflation into gear, which in turn makes things more expensive and so on....which is where we find ourselves now.
A few mates in businesses that hire a few on the low end say it is becoming a poaching market for casuals, with some industries sniping each others staff. That being said, those that have always looked after their staff, even pickers get the same people back each year to do the job with no issues.