NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR LOW WAGES

In the same way, McCartin said, tropes about today’s labour shortages in industries like trucking, health care and the service industry get linked to the idea that people don’t want to work. “But that sidesteps the key issue, which is that a lot of jobs, for the amount of wear and tear and the hard labour involved — they just don’t pay enough,” he said. “Very often what this kind of rhetoric, whether it’s people don’t want to work or there’s a labour shortage, what that often speaks to is that wages simply aren’t attractive enough for workers.”