Employment Opportunities in ex Coal Mining Areas

Redwurzel

Redwurzel

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This is an interesting article on the employment market in areas like Barnsley.

Barnsley has an unemployment rate of only 3% but around 26% inactivity rate (people not working aged 18-64). There is obviously some hidden unemployment in the 26%. If the UK average is 21% its not impossible to say the real rate of unemployment is 5% plus 3% = 8%.

Commentators say the UK hasn't an unemployment issue, but there surely is in the left behind areas of the UK. It is probably well hidden, say compared with the early 1980s.

www.bbc.co.uk

Miners' strike: Coal towns falling further behind - charity

A BBC poll finds 73% of people in coalfield communities have seen little progress on levelling up.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Official unemployment figures are utter b0ll0cks anyway. It doesn’t include a lot of hidden unemployment like people not actively looking for work or people on zero hour contracts who want a real job etc
 
Unemployment figures will not capture people on zero hours contracts working low hours or, even worse, people trapped in pyramid scheme style MLM schemes like, but not limited to, juice plus, Scentsy, fm fragrances, utility warehouse, body shop at home (just closed), Avon, Herbalife, forever living, nuskin, tropic skincare, inteletravel etc

Each of these has tens of thousands of unpaid reps "earning" commission which is on average far below minimum wage for what they put in. I really wish we'd legislate these firms out of existence - they literally rely on people signing up and feeding the people at the top despite over 90% of lower rung people failing really badly

Girl at work has been trying to tell our team to leave octopus tracker for utility warehouse. Was great listening to her pitch on being uk's cheapest supplier then I ran the figures...
 
North of Mansfield a lot of people are employed by Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse on Zero hour contracts, it’s a grim existence.

Same here in Newark with the Currys compound - a lot go in on agency or temporary contracts with no security.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Unemployment figures will not capture people on zero hours contracts working low hours or, even worse, people trapped in pyramid scheme style MLM schemes like, but not limited to, juice plus, Scentsy, fm fragrances, utility warehouse, body shop at home (just closed), Avon, Herbalife, forever living, nuskin, tropic skincare, inteletravel etc

Each of these has tens of thousands of unpaid reps "earning" commission which is on average far below minimum wage for what they put in. I really wish we'd legislate these firms out of existence - they literally rely on people signing up and feeding the people at the top despite over 90% of lower rung people failing really badly

Girl at work has been trying to tell our team to leave octopus tracker for utility warehouse. Was great listening to her pitch on being uk's cheapest supplier then I ran the figures...
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You can chuck in fake self employment by the likes of Deliveroo and many, many others. Pure exploitation of workers with zero employment rights barely making the minimum wage. No company should be allowed to operate this business model.
 
Sending all the youngsters to University for a few years keeps the figures down, the poor devils leave Uni with degrees and A levels coming out of their ears to then get jobs that barely pay them what some of us got in the late eighties.
 
Panatttoni - do they operate warehousing parks?

If they are we have gone from making modern Honda cars on the Swindon site to moving likely low priced Chinese/Indian made goods around the UK. Really sad and what does it say for our future.

Ref true unemployment rate in the UK

What is true level of unemployment in the UK?
 
Redwurzel said:
Panatttoni - do they operate warehousing parks?

If they are we have gone from making modern Honda cars on the Swindon site to moving likely low priced Chinese/Indian made goods around the UK. Really sad and what does it say for our future.

Ref true unemployment rate in the UK

What is true level of unemployment in the UK?
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With a little difficulty in the Red Sea, there is an upcoming shortage of Indian and Chinese goods [including Tea] and a hike in prices round the corner.
But don't tell anyone ;)
 
If you work only one hour per week you are counted as being employed. So you can see how unreliable the figures are
 
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