Fucking hell. PAY PEOPLE MORE you cheap shits.
I didn't see pay listed in the article.
How else do we explain worker shortage? Where did all the people go? Rapture?
On the other side, what better way for a social worker to see real issues and people while studying?
It has to pay well enough for students to be willing to distract from studying.
If the situation in Germany is anything like the Netherlands, it legit is just a shortage of workers outright.
There are more job vacancies than people to fill those vacancies, so you end up with a shortage of workers.
Making tram driving more attractive by paying them more would draw employees away from other industries, who also need people to do the work.
Not saying tram drivers shouldn't be paid more, but if the situation in this German city is anything like what we are dealing with here in the NL, then paying people more is not going to solve the issue. Only solution is to either decrease the number of open positions (which usually only happens in a recession, which is not great), or to increase the number of people who can do the work (for example through immigration)
Edit: A possible solution specifically in the case of trams could be automation (self-driving trams), which would relax the overall demand for workers.
There are already transportation system without drivers that have been operating since the 80s (e.g. the London DLR)
It's probably a bit more tricky in mixed traffic, but since trams are on predictable rails it would be easier than automating cars.
Making tram driving more attractive by paying them more would draw employees away from other industries, who also need people to do the work.
That's how free markets work, though. If there is a labour shortage, places which are important should pay more, to attract people away from other places, who either also raise wages or make do with fewer people or shutter.
This is just inflationary pressure hitting employers, like all of us. Except when it's a person, you just have to tighten the belt, or make do with higher prices, but when it's a company, it's a societal problem where simply paying more cannot be the solution.
I agree with you. The only issue I have is that some "important" things have much less extra money to dedicate to raising wages than less important things. The amount of profit isn't always in line with the importance of a thing I guess. But if it's that important then I guess government subsidies would be able to fix that gap
You mean because it's public transit and might need more subsidy to raise wages and thus probably becomes political?
German companies can go through the beurocracy of hiring and training people from abroad and they will get visas when this actually occurs. But there is nothing wrong with hiring part timers who also study at a university. The job is unattractive because of shift work. Expanding recruitment to people seeking part time jobs makes sense.
For what it's worth 2 out of 3 subway lines are already fully automated. They started in 2008.
Trams have the same issues as self driving cars though: you need to 100% reliably detect people in front of the carriage. And you can easily find tests with Teslas which just run over a child sized doll because they didn't detect it properly. The tech is just not there yet.
I agree with you entirely that automated trams are more difficult than automated metro systems. However I do think that trams are a most likely a more easily solvable problem than automated cars.
That is not to say automated trams are easy, or already viable. I'm just saying that they are likely more viable than automated cars will be in the nearby future.
Automation and driving
People are really apprehensive of that still. I agree, but we're going to need more people becoming accepting.
I'm not arguing with the job shortage. I just can't get my head around the migration.
There were always people filling lower paying job (I'm not advocating for less than deserving compensation). Now there isn't?
Maybe the same jobs exist, but new higher paying jobs have appeared that weren't around before (new technology, more corporate,.etc), so people just skilled up, moved up, and left the lower jobs vacant?
I think most developed countries where this happens just replace these less desirable jobs with immigration (not advocating for an idea of a lesser population)?
Maybe there's not as much immigration in some of these places?
Pay for tram operators here in Germany isn't that bad actually. Yes could definitely be more, but we've a general worker shortage here so that plays a lot into it.
isn’t that bad actually.
I dislike this response. The "raise the pay" folks don't just mean people living in poverty.
The pay is not yet sufficient to pull people from their next best alternative. A labor shortage can be fixed by paying more than the next best option.
Nein.
I won't do it for at least ten
Scheisse
I don't know what the current pay rate is for that job, but I am certain that if the pay was double of whatever it is now the worker shortage would suddenly vanish!
That's pretty much the case for all missing workers. The pay in some jobs is utterly ridiculous here in Germany. And that's not because of the Taxes.
Germany: "NEIN IMMIGRANTS, NO MORE!"
Also Germany: "Why can't we replace the workers of our aging population?! Where did we go wrong?"
EDIT: Btw these aren't children, it's university students older than 21.
In this case it's a giant housing shortage though. The city (and large surrounding area) is Freiburg in the south. Rents are so expensive and available flats are so rare that companies don't find workers who could actually live there. Also: the comparably good loans don't mean much when it's only channeled into a greedy landlord's pockets.
Edit: oh no i was wrong it's Nuremberg - their public transport organization is also "VAG". But Freiburg has a huge labor shortage due to unaffordable housing and housing shortage.
By housing the students in the trams, they are freeing valuable real estate.
It's practically the same. Nürnberg has a joined University with it's neighbouring city, Erlangen. Erlangen has the highest rent per square meter (if you're not eligible for student housing). It's high prices for the whole region, because the Nürnberg-Erlangen metro region is the biggest population, business and cultural center in the north of Bavaria.
Immigration isn't a the cause of all our problems. But it also isn't the solution to all our problems.
Idk I feel like having more working people would solve not having enough working people.
This seems like a weird headline. Maybe "Student gets a part time job while at University" would be a better headline.
Perhaps they reduced barrier of entry for these jobs, allowing for working less hours, flexible schedules, less training time, etc.
Edit: seems i was right aftwr actually reading the article. They mention part-time, working arouns their classes, ans this:
They are also expected to take on extra homework to make up for the accelerated pace of the course, which is half the length of regular training.
Man if i got to wear a jacket that said VAG on it, I'd work for free.
"I'm the state sponsored VAG inspector, I'm gonna need to see your ticket or ass."
So where do you think the clit is?
Nuremberg. The German city is Nuremberg. It's a beautiful medieval city.
Medieval because of the lack of tramway driver?
Medieval because of Bavarian Landtag voting in medieval shit.
It's never a worker shortage, it's a reasonable wage shortage.
they taking any English speaking asian who would work in Germany??
also,i love bratwurst and beer!!
You will need to learn at least a little German. There are definitely prospects though, the country is trying to attract more immigrants.
I used to drive a bus for my university
Don't those things practically drive themselves?
Yes. Although if it's not on an entirely separated path, it likely is still better to have a driver.
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