Agriculture Supply Chain Completely Breaks Down
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I covered last week how the jobs crisis was affecting different Countries.
The UK’s story however is quite different to that of the rest of the world. As well as having to deal with strict lockdowns over the last year, it’s also still adjusting to its new position in the world following the most publicised and hostile of breakups: Brexit!
The UK’s current worker shortage is far more broad reaching and is affecting all levels of employment across all corners of industry. Employers are finding it extremely difficult to fill vacant positions at all levels across manufacturing, construction, hospitality, logistics and distribution, health and social care, and agriculture.
An estimated 1.3 million non-UK workers have left the country during the pandemic. There are also far fewer foreign workers seeking employment in the UK, with overseas interest in UK jobs more than half from before the pandemic; indicating that UK employers can no longer rely on overseas workers to plug employment gaps.
In a sign of the growing pressure on companies, surveys from the British Chambers of Commerce showed 70% of businesses that had tried to hire staff in the three months to June had struggled to do so.
This leads me to the first bottleneck: Agriculture
Brexit has meant an end to free movement of people within Europe or more specifically in this case: labour. Leaving food and farming sectors exposed to a huge shortage of seasonal and casual workers which have traditionally been filled by EU nationals.
EU workers who usually come to the UK to carry out jobs such as livestock & crop picking and packing, now struggle to meet the criteria required under the Government’s new points-based system.
Farmers across the UK are in panic mode as the busiest season of the year just started but they are faced with a shortage of hundreds of thousands of European workers.
“95 per cent of all fruit and produce picked and packaged in this country is done by eastern Europeans,”
DELIVERY:
The haulage industry has been one of the most seriously affected sectors in many countries due to struggling to find enough heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers to keep the economy moving. HGVs transport just about everything around the country – and makes up for around 90-95% of all goods
But thanks to a combination of COVID, lockdowns, Brexit and other factors, there aren't enough drivers to meet demand. Based on a survey of its members, the Road Haulage Association estimates there is now a shortage of more than 100,000 drivers in the UK alone.
Many of these drivers were European and they went home during COVID, most never to return.
The pandemic has also created a large backlog in HGV driver tests, so it's been impossible to get enough new drivers up and running. The haulage industry said that there were 25,000 fewer candidates passing their test in the last year.
But there’s one final problem which is adding to this burden at both the delivery and shelf stacking level to get that food onto your supermarket shelf...
Pingdemic:
A more unusual and unique phenomenon that has temporarily stalled the UK’s road to recovery is the emergence of the ‘Pingdemic’
A record number of people who had downloaded the UK Government track and trace app were being pinged and told to self isolate for 10 days for the most bizarre of reasons! The app uses Bluetooth technology to identify other users.
The ‘Pingdemic’, has produced huge disruptions for businesses and critical services. The consequences of so many people isolating has been devastating
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to Rotting Crops
02:41 - Empty Shelves In Supermarkets
04:56 - Why The UK Worker Shortage is so Severe
06:14 - How COVID is Affecting Migratory Workers
07:20 - Will The Food Chain Collapse?
09:07 - The Agriculture Crisis
10:35 - The Transport Crisis
14:50 - The Pingdemic Crisis
17:40 - My Closing Thoughts
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