Kids and parents are eager to return to summer camps after a year of virtual learning, but many camps across the country are struggling to find enough workers to operate normally. NBC News’ Dasha Burns breaks down why international workers and college students are in short supply this summer and how the shortage will impact kids returning to summer camp.ÂÂÂ
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A few friends of mine who went as “soccer†assistant coaches gladly go as cheap Labour as it’s a paid holiday,
Reason y they struggle is cuz the employ foreigners they pay very low and Americans won't do the jobs they offer for min.wage
Everyone's saying these camping businesses prefer bringing in cheap foreign labor. But here's the deal. If the two featured camp counselors are representatives, that means most of them are from UK, Ireland, EU, Aus, Can, where wages are actually higher than in the US. No, these overseas camp counselors aren't coming here for the money, but for travel and experience . . . which does go back square one.
Thats why, you need to consume USA!!!
hmm shortage particularly of lifeguards? I wonder what country normally sends them & isn't this year….
& sorry to burst your bubble guys, but Australia's said AT LEAST mid 2022 before we consider re-opening our borders to America, so you'll likely have this problem again next year too
So what's wrong with American workers why you're not hiring American workers from the beginning? Now you want to hire American workers! Something is wrong with this picture hmm, next you'll be saying American workers don't want to work 😳
Money only go to the owner and bosses the rest work hard for peanuts 🥜
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They claim lofty reasons for hiring international workers, like coming to the states to learn about American culture. The real reason is so they can pay less. The average salary for a domestic campground worker is $45 – 55K, whereas an international worker, doing roughly the same work, averages around $33K. So for nearly the price of one domestic worker, these camps can hire two, maybe three, international workers. There's no crisis. The camps are just cheap, and they don't want to give more of those open positions to domestic workers.
Good luck with that.
People want summer camps! Not wearing cloth mask camps cleaning and doing the 6ft boolshyt!
So what’s stopping them from hiring American workers and paying a livable wage ? It’s not rocket science at all….
America needs Medicare For All to get small businesses going.
AND WHY CAN WE IN THE USA NOT DO IT? not enough people who are able to council? That sounds ridicules. Maybe the owner can't afford to train the ppl for the position? The same employees would return every year. They need to invest more.
Lol i hope they go under😎
How are you going to do a story about a labor shortage in this industry without mentioning, or even QUESTIONING, the compensation for said labor?!?! The bullcrap excuse made by the guy, they just didn't want to "spread their wings" at camp? Gitdafuqouttahere… How much you wanna bet that IF they pay em what they're WORTH, they'll show up, international or domestic.
That's what happens when you go woke and let kids be whatever gender they want. No worker wants to be held accountable if a girl comes home pregnant because they didn't properly seperate the boys and girls at night! 🙄
Are You ALL Prepared !? #SWPG
Why not hire employees from the USA or are they that cheap that they dont want to pay the wages?
Nobody wants to clean toilets…higher wages!!
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You're pretty much on your own, don't do anything I wouldn't do.
LOW PAY = LACK OF WORKERS
Hahaha
Why bothers working?
Where are the people who complain about foreigners stealing their jobs?
NO work….no pay. Shut off freebies and hungry people will go back to work.
Why do we need forigen labour for summer camps in the first place?
well, when people are earning more with unemployment, why bother working?
You want employees to come work? Pay them more that what they earn from the EDD.
George Floyd used to give campers head for drug money 💰