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From abattoirs to restaurant kitchens, the U.K. food sector is facing a massive challenge this summer: there just aren’t enough workers.
The food industry, already facing labor shortages because of Brexit and the pandemic, is now being stretched to capacity as the country reopens. Meat processors are cutting production and a “catastrophic” dearth of drivers is disrupting food deliveries to supermarkets. Warehouses and farms are short of labor too, threatening to choke food supply flows,
while local pubs and Michelin-starred restaurants are having to restrict service and boost wages for chefs and waiting staff.
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“We’re constantly fighting every day to try and put out fires across the supply chains,” said Shane Brennan, who heads the Cold Chain Federation. “We’re already seeing empty shelves in some parts of the food supply chain, in supermarkets and across hospitality. That is going to continue. And we’re going to see intermittent shortages throughout the summer.”
The shortages started with Brexit,
which capped inflows of low-paid workers from the European Union. The problem escalated during the pandemic with thousands of people from the 27-nation bloc leaving the U.K. Now as the economy reopens, many of those workers seem in no rush to come back.
https://www.supplychainbrain.com/art...ity-gets-worse
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https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/uk-food-...iation-1099093
A ‘perfect storm’ of the current coronavirus NHS app ‘pingdemic’ and existing labour shortages in the haulier industry has resulted in a supply-chain breakdown and caused many British supermarkets to have empty shelves. This has prompted new worries that a repeat of early-pandemic panic-buying could happen again.
The Road Haulage Association has issued statements saying that the UK’s exiting of the EU has contributed to the shortage, with the industry already having a 60,000 shortage of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers before the pandemic. Aside from Brexit causing a drop in applications to drive HGVs on UK roads, the testing at UK-EU borders has also been blamed, with lorry drivers having to pause their journeys to be tested.
https://www.retail-insight-network.c...-panic-buying/
Che la Brexit economicamente parlando sia stata una puttanata megagalattica ci arriva qualsialsi persona con una conoscenza basilare del commercio e dell 'ecomomia, se poi uno sostiene tali posizioni su basi ideologiche appunto per ideologia o per motivazioni non economiche, e' un altro discorso, ma economicamente parlando e' stata una grandissma puttanata.