Last month we posted an article , mentioning that the salary of truck drivers in the UK soared, with an annual salary of up to 500,000 yuan (54,000 pounds).
It has only been less than a month since then, and this salary number is about to be updated.
According to the latest reports from many British media, a boss offered an annual salary of up to 78,000 pounds for British truck drivers, which is approximately RMB 700,000. The salary level of
is more than twice the average annual income of the British (31,000 pounds).
In comparison, the average annual salary of middle school teachers in the UK is 40,000 pounds, the average annual salary of lawyers is 43,000 pounds, and the average average of architects is 42,900 pounds.
Even doctors who earn pyramids in the UK have an average annual income of £65,000, which is lower than the latest salary level of truck drivers.
In fact, during this period, not only the wages of British truck drivers have soared, but also the wages of various other blue-collar workers have also increased a lot.
According to the latest reports from British media, workers who pick fruits and vegetables, like truck drivers, have jumped to the new high-paying family.
reported that the latest annual income of British vegetable pickers has reached 62,000 pounds, about 550,000 yuan.
It is worth mentioning that the average annual salary of this job last year was still 28,000 pounds.
A recruitment advertisement posted by Lincolnshire agricultural product wholesaler TH clements & Son Ltd shows:
They are recruiting workers who pick broccoli , with an hourly salary of up to 30 pounds, a total of 240 pounds per day, which is equivalent to making 2123 RMB in a day.
At the same time, a company has offered milkman an annual salary of for .
courier company offered delivery guy a high salary of pounds . The salary level of
is already higher than that of many white-collar office workers in City of London .
As for the increase in wages for truck drivers, vegetable pickers and other jobs, it is mainly because under the dual influence of Brexit and the new crown, those Eastern European immigrants who used to hold such jobs have returned to their own countries. In addition, few people in the UK are willing to do these jobs, which has suddenly caused a situation where blue-collar workers are in short supply.
What makes it even worse is that for the most scarce truck driver job this time, in addition to the need for drivers to deliver goods in supermarkets, the fuel transport truck at the gas station in recent days has also been in a hurry to lack drivers. The panic buying and hoarding of oil in the public has further increased demand, causing a vicious cycle.
For this reason, in order to maintain operation, supermarkets and gas stations have to offer drivers an annual salary several times higher than usual.
What is the British government preparing to do for the latest round of blue-collar shortage crisis?
It should be noted again that the reason for this round of oil shortage in the UK is not the insufficient fuel supply, but simply because of the lack of drivers.
On Monday, energy companies represented by BP and Shell said that the current problem is not fuel shortage, but how to transport gasoline and diesel to gas stations in a timely manner.
At the same time, British Business Secretary Quatten also reiterated that the UK's fuel supply is sufficient. But he admitted that supply chain issues that bring fuel from ports and refineries to gas stations need to be dealt with.
So the key to the problem is to find someone to deliver the goods.
In order to solve this problem, the aforementioned article mentioned that business owners have offered high salaries, but in addition to high salary incentives, the British government also needs to do work.
Last week (September 24), the British government announced that it would issue 5,000 short-term visas to foreign truck drivers willing to work in the UK starting from October.
At the same time, the government has also sent nearly 1 million letters to all drivers currently holding truck drivers’ licenses, asking them to come back to work.
The British Ministry of Education has also invested £10 million to train 3,000 newcomers to become truck drivers.
In other words, as long as you are willing to be a truck driver, you don’t even have to pay to study. The government pays you to train, and you can get a high salary after the training. If you are a foreign experienced driver, the government will directly issue a visa.
But then again, these measures are long-term strategies. Faced with the current urgent needs, the British government can only move out of the army.
According to the latest British media reports, since foreign drivers who have obtained visas must arrive at the end of October at the earliest;
Therefore, the British government decided on Monday (September 27) that urgently dispatched 150 British military tanker drivers to assist in the transportation of gasoline , and they can take up their posts as soon as possible within the next few days.
British Commerce Secretary Kuoteng also said that he has put army on standby as part of the follow-up measures to solve the supply chain dilemma. The driver of the British Army tanker who participated in the operation will undergo special training before performing the mission.
Kuanteng said: "If necessary, the deployment of the British military will provide additional capabilities for the supply chain as a temporary measure to help alleviate the pressure caused by the surge in local fuel demand."
British investors wrote in the end
It can be seen that the current situation of in the UK is still continuing, and there is even a tendency to become increasingly serious.
In this regard, the British media, who has always liked to make trouble, specifically mentioned in the news titles of the past few days: is time to change the career plan of .
