Shortages UK

[Ootohere]

https://driverrequire.co.uk/ir35

 

 

Edited 5 September, 2021 by e-Roottoot

[@Lee]

Nigel Farage on 'Peston' from 2019. I thought he was an MEP dodging fisheries meetings for twenty years not buying and selling goods?

 

[Ootohere]

Vid like many many,

From over 6 years ago.

 

 

During Covid Toilets were closed, drivers overnight in carparks and lay-by's.   

As they have always had to. 

 

There could be proper transport hubs on all major routes and also not major routes.

Proper hygienic facilities with amenities.

To meet the building standards required for the use, and not locations that communities / councils can block.

If people want stuff delivered then they need to have Transport Stops.

 

The Government have been deaf dumb and blind since before any referendum in 2016.

Even more idiotic since through money at border controls too late and then emergency lanes to hold vehicles.

All along secure parking should have been getting privided.

Caps on the profiteering on the provision of 'HGV & LGV stops / eateries.'

 

The General Public and Local Authorities can treat the Transport Industry as a nuisance and nuisance neighbours / employers.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 5 September, 2021 by e-Roottoot

[Ootohere]

Euro Group / EG Group owned by the Issa brothers that bought a large share of ASDA through another company have a new Filling Station & facilities near me.

Busy now with HGV's and others parked up after fueling or just stopped / shopping.

 

Now the EG group are going to have ASDA Express type shops are many of their UK locations.

 

http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-58439668

https://news.sky.com/story/asda-sales/fall-after-lockdowns-drove-exceptional-2020-12398503

 

 

The UK Government need to be encouraging facilities like they are going to continue building.

That combined with EV charging hubs.  

Even areas where Distribution changes can be done from HGV's to light goods vehicles and EV light goods vehicles.  Not just at major trunk routes but on many City & Towns outskirts.

 

The Tories are OK with Greenbelt land being used for village and town expansion so Brown Field & Greenfield sites should be made available to those that provide service areas that the 4 Nations of the UK require to make the job of thousands if not millions of professional drivers.

 

Edited 5 September, 2021 by e-Roottoot

[@Lee]

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Farms are set to kill and burn 100,000 pigs because of a post-Brexit butchers' shortage: Industry chiefs vent fury at Priti Patel for leaving key staff off list - but keeping ballet dancers

• Farmers may be forced to destroy nearly 100,000 pigs due to butcher shortage
• Figures say the animals face being killed due to post-Brexit shortage of workers
• Home Secretary Priti Patel hasn't included job on a list of shortage occupations
• The list would allow foreign butchers to enter the UK on a skilled worker visa

Amazingly from the Mail but reported elsewhere... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9958663/Farms-set-kill-burn-100-000-pigs-post-Brexit-butchers-shortage.html

 

[Ttaskmaster]

Dunno about shortages, but stuff is definitely a lot more expensive.

Things I'd often get from Slovenia, Germany and Switzerland now cost a good 30-35% extra if you're in the UK.

[@Lee]

3 hours ago, Ttaskmaster said:

Dunno about shortages, but stuff is definitely a lot more expensive.

Things I'd often get from Slovenia, Germany and Switzerland now cost a good 30-35% extra if you're in the UK.

I ordered ten mantles for a paraffin lamp in mid July; after three weeks when they hadn't arrived I phoned the company. Definitely sent but they said we'll re-send your order. That's nearly four weeks ago now I think. Ordered from the UK to Germany. Never had a problem before this year even sending to Germany from UK. 

[@Lee]

YouGov poll from 2/9/21 

Source: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/health/survey-results/daily/2021/09/02/627e6/1?utm_source=twitter &utm_medium=daily_quesions&utm_campaign=question_1

[@Lee]

More warnings coming from retailers. Like I said, I believe that applying to rejoin the SM & CU would end a lot, not all, but a lot of these problems overnight. I'm more than happy to let people who voted no convince me otherwise.
 

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Marks & Spencer has warned of a range of problems for food imports to the UK when Brexit rules change next month.

In a letter to suppliers, it said UK and EU bodies were not ready for new paperwork needed next month when a grace period on import checks ends.

It said in some EU states, offices were not open at weekends, which would cause "significant disruption" to imports.

Supply chains in the UK are already under stress due to shortages of lorry drivers and other staff.

The new rules mean lorry drivers importing goods will need some 700 pages of documents.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58462351

And the CBI
 

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The labour crisis could last for up to two years, Britain’s leading business lobby group has warned, as it called for ministers to take action on visas for foreign workers and stop “waiting for shortages to solve themselves”.

Amid the most severe labour crunch since the 1970s, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) launched a broadside against the government, saying the UK’s economic recovery from the winter lockdown was being undermined by a lack of skills in key positions, with mounting risks that the problem would continue for some time.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/06/uk-labour-crisis-could-last-up-to-two-years-cbi-warns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Hospitality
 

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Popular Pan-Asian chain Wagamama has revealed it is having difficulty hiring chefs across a fifth of its restaurants as the sector strains amid a “perfect storm” of supply chain woes and staff shortages.

The group’s recently appointed chief executive Thomas Heier said he was struggling to fill chef vacancies in around 30 sites.

He said Brexit was impacting the number of European workers looking for jobs in the UK, but also blamed tough competition in the recruitment market as logistics firms are resorting to wage hikes and steep cash bonuses to help plug lorry and delivery driver shortages.

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-05/wagamama-reveals-chef-recruitment-struggles-amid-uk-worker-shortage?fbclid=IwAR3IhTyFaxdayk1pwm0NwEae9SBTikeonOaMleq6vAU7XHqDjWNKJ9VsHCk

And even construction materials and labour
 

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Severe shortages of building materials dragged down activity in the UK construction industry last month, in the latest sign of Covid and Brexit disruption hitting Britain’s post-lockdown economic recovery.

Construction firms said the cost of materials was rising at among the fastest rates since the 1990s, as severe and sustained supply chain issues held back growth across the industry, according to a closely watched survey of the industry.

 

The latest snapshot from IHS Markit and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (Cips) revealed a decline in growth across housebuilding, commercial work and civil engineering as the restricted supply of materials and transport issues began to weigh on overall construction activity.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/06/uk-building-firms-materials-staff-construction-industry

And this from 'The Grocer'. A popular trade mag
 

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There is not a single business across the food supply chain that isn’t aware of, or is directly affected by, the impacts of the crippling labour shortages we are currently facing. The challenges are not new, but the current situation is the worst and most widespread the food industry has experienced for many years. Dealing with this crisis requires considerable resolve and I’m sure many businesses are stretched to capacity while coming up with different ways to deal with workforce shortages.

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/brexit-and-the-workforce/why-the-british-food-sector-is-facing-a-labour-crisis-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/659471.article?adredir=1

Alistair Campbell telling a Conservative MP to 'say the B word".

Edited 6 September, 2021 by @Lee

[Ootohere]

The North East Scotland MP is in line for a peerage eventually.  He is unbelievable but got elected.

 

The Slipper Farmers in his area might have supported him but we will see how he does at the next election.

There are plenty of Haulage Contractors and Businesses in his Constituency that will be waiting to hear how the Consultations & Discussions happening today are going.

 

Where the Employees required now are being magiced from now by the Tories. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 6 September, 2021 by e-Roottoot

[Ttaskmaster]

20 hours ago, e-Roottoot said:

Where the Employees required now are being magiced from now by the Tories.

 

Oh, that'd be all those Labour voters living off benefits, yeh?

 

"Every nation gets the government it deserves"....

[Ootohere]

Good luck to them with that and getting many off the grip, including ones that voted Tory last time.

The Tories can not have the grey or shadow economy running as they allow it to and have those same people legally employed.

 

http://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/a-no-deal-brexit-would-bring-an-end-to-the-cash-economy/a1284332

 

http://www.rsmuk.com/blog/coronavirus-deals-a-blow-to-the-shadow-economy

 

 

Edited 7 September, 2021 by e-Roottoot

[@Lee]

Back on the topic of shortages; It now appears supply chain issues are leading to shortages of water treatment chemicals meaning lowering of regulations of discharges.
They'd do well to ensure a supply of these chemicals to Westminster as a high amount of effluent has been flowing from there for a few years now.

 

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Normally, you need a permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 to discharge treated effluent from a waste water treatment works (WwTW) to surface water or groundwater. Permits contain conditions that control the quality of the effluent you can discharge.

You may not be able to comply with your permit if you cannot get the chemicals you use to treat the effluent you discharge because of:

• the UK’s new relationship with the EU
• coronavirus (COVID-19)
• other unavoidable supply chain failures, for example the failure of a treatment chemical supplier

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-and-sewerage-company-effluent-discharges-supply-chain-failure-rps-b2/water-and-sewerage-company-effluent-discharges-supply-chain-failure-rps-b

[gadgetman]

An interesting tweet I've just seen. A caller to LBC recently said similar, but at the time I passed it off as a one off 

 

[@Lee]

Areas where there are shortages.

"The UK economy is suffering an acute shortage of workers with vacancies running at record levels, according to official figures.

The crisis has led to growing calls across key sectors for government intervention, as recruitment is hampered by a combination of post-pandemic shortfalls and Brexit rules.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) reported there were 1.66 million vacancies at the end of August, with that number set to continue rising in the coming months."

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    • HGV drivers - 100,000+

    • Nurses - 79,123

• Programmers and software development professionals - 68,929

• Care workers and home carers - 49,751

• Primary and nursery education teaching professionals - 30,574

• Chefs - 29,996

• Sales and retail assistants - 26,183

• Cleaners & domestics - 24,148

• Metal working production and maintenance fitters - 19,748

• Carpenters and joiners - 6,364
Other roles highlighted with high vacancy rates include veterinary nurses, ambulance drivers and postal workers.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/the-ten-jobs-where-people-are-needed-most-as-uk-battles-vacancy-glut-12400384

Interestingly.....
 

Up to 1.3 million overseas nationals have left the UK over the past year, with almost 700,000 non-UK born workers having vacated London alone, according to a study.

The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence found an “unprecedented” fall in the number of foreign-born residents in the UK when it applied an ‘adjustment factor’ to Labour Force Survey statistic
Its estimates relate to the change in the population between July- September 2019 to July-September 2020. The Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey, however, estimates that 893,000 non-UK residents have left the UK.
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/number-of-overseas-nationals-leaving-uk-could-have-reached-1-3-million/
 

[cheezemonkhai]

20 hours ago, gadgetman said:

An interesting tweet I've just seen. A caller to LBC recently said similar, but at the time I passed it off as a one off 

 

I think there is some truth about people wanting to pay well under the odds then getting upset when they can't get staff (as per the earlier cartoon)

 

Historically if you wanted fill a 30k job, but were only offering 20k you would get no/poor applicants.

Then along came outsourcing or the ability to import cheaper labour and suddenly you had applicants at 20k.

 

This then causes much consternation as a 30k job then becomes a 20k job.

Now the companies that got away paying under the cost somebody living locally would need are upset because they have to pay more.

 

With house prices so high vs wages, you either need to reduce house prices or increase wages.

Well that or outsource all the work again.

 

 

[VWD]

Perhaps this stems back to a problem that few firms don't want to /realise exists , and possibly HMG acting like ostriches.  Training and apprentices. Neither party is blameless. I've never noticed any incentive for firms to  take on /train and get trainees educated to know how to do a job. All the incentives have been ( from HMG) short training courses that never folks the skills to get the skills to move about in their chosen field. Degree courses are all very well, but that breeds a generation of managers, who lack technical skills.

it's noteworthy that a few years ago, STOBART decided that if they could not hire drivers ,then they would train them. Great till the bean counters find out what it costs. Problem is that the balance sheet does not see trainees etc as an investment in the company.

[skomaz]

26 minutes ago, VWD said:

Perhaps this stems back to a problem that few firms don't want to /realise exists , and possibly HMG acting like ostriches.  Training and apprentices. Neither party is blameless. I've never noticed any incentive for firms to  take on /train and get trainees educated to know how to do a job. All the incentives have been ( from HMG) short training courses that never folks the skills to get the skills to move about in their chosen field. Degree courses are all very well, but that breeds a generation of managers, who lack technical skills.

it's noteworthy that a few years ago, STOBART decided that if they could not hire drivers ,then they would train them. Great till the bean counters find out what it costs. Problem is that the balance sheet does not see trainees etc as an investment in the company.

 

We certainly take on a large number of Apprentices each year and there are 'incentives' to do so.  From personal experience some are good some are bad but on the whole it's a great way to bring young staffinto the business and train them up to do the role you need them for.

[Ootohere]

What a cunning stunt. 

 The Government is listening.   

 

Government to shorten HGV testing process.         That should sort things out in time for next summer, maybe or the summer after.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-58487347

 

 

 

[VWD]

Skomaz- it's not just the training, but the firms approach to "how to do it". I've trained apprentices and when they are taught from day one that there's only one way  ,that influenced their approach. Of course there's bad one, but it's a two way thing. Kitchen and heat spring to mind.

[gadgetman]

29 minutes ago, e-Roottoot said:

What a cunning stunt. 

 The Government is listening.   

 

Government to shorten HGV testing process.         That should sort things out in time for next summer, maybe or the summer after.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-58487347

 

 

 

Cuts the current 6 months (was 3 before Covid backlogs) by 3 weeks. 

 

Hardly worth it 

[cheezemonkhai]

11 minutes ago, gadgetman said:

Cuts the current 6 months (was 3 before Covid backlogs) by 3 weeks. 

 

Hardly worth it 

 

Dunno, if it means the drivers that started in May/June are ready for Christmas 😂

[cheezemonkhai]

I do wonder if increasing the use of Rail freight from ports/major manufacturing areas to local depots and have lorries doing the first/last miles is the answer.

It solves some congestion, some environmental and some driver shortage issues all in one.

 

As for the 3 week savings, if it comes too close to Christmas do the failing drivers get offered as Christmas dinner rather than offered a retest.

[Ootohere]

Less drivers will fail.  

Gavin Williamson MP will be made the Minister responsible for new tests and there will be a new self assessment introduced.  

If you can show you can ride an e-Scooter and have a driving licence that is all that a driver should need. 

[gadgetman]

1 hour ago, cheezemonkhai said:

I do wonder if increasing the use of Rail freight from ports/major manufacturing areas to local depots and have lorries doing the first/last miles is the answer.

It solves some congestion, some environmental and some driver shortage issues all in one.

 

As for the 3 week savings, if it comes too close to Christmas do the failing drivers get offered as Christmas dinner rather than offered a retest.

Stobart already do similar with several hubs