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Unfortunately, stewarding wages won’t get you through a month of living costs in Brighton.

Yes, that’s my point. People on this thread have bemoaned the departure of foreign unskilled workers but their presence suppressed wages for low paid workers. Many UK workers could not/cannot afford to live on the minimum wage and without it wages would have likely gone even lower. It was/is a...

Yes, they could. Won’t be necessary though if the current constrained labour supply bids up wages. The minimum wage was needed because of unlimited supply of cheap workers distorting the market.

True, but it’s a bit of a cop out. It’s the same argument used by large shop chains that employ middle men to deal with the sweat shop conditions endured by the workforce in places like Thailand. I don’t have all the answers but basically if the Albion want a fully staffed catering team they...

In part because of mixed messaging from the club. On the one hand they say they want people in their seats rather than the concourses. On the other they are trying to sell food and drink which creates inevitable queuing and congestion in the concourses. It might help if they committed to a one...

I will knock them up a spreadsheet illustrating the drop in the ocean that paying their catering staff properly entails compared to the salaries of executives and playing staff :thumbsup:

You old rascal, you won’t get me that way ! My main interest in this subject is Albion related ie in forming a view on likely pie and beer queues and explaining my patience with waiting as I think of the greater good :)

See post 16. Inevitably if supply of something is constrained (in this case low skilled labour) its price will rise

In this case not about protecting foreign workers. Rather, protecting the wages of low skilled domestic workers from competition from an endless supply of cheap foreign labour. Seems to be working.

Yes, exploiting cheap foreign workers was the chosen solution to enable a low wage economy. Seems it is no longer an option. Good.