ARD ran a forum (live) show last night....with SPD's Lars Klingbeil.
I watched probably around 25 minutes of it. Two obvious notes:
First, Lars wore a suit, and was sweating at 200-percent....it was literally dripping off his head....onto the suit, and as much as he could wipe.....it just continued on, and on.
I felt sorry for the guy. The studio was definitely not air conditioned.
Second, at some point....an older gal asked a question about the incoming migration folks, and if we really needed migrant-bus-drivers from South Africa or care-givers from the Philippines.
I paused over it....it was a blunt question.
So....if you go to any urban area (Bremen, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Erfurt, etc)....they have a shortage of bus-drivers. If you go back five or six years ago....the bus companies made up for the problem by recruiting French, Spanish and Greek drivers. You came in....showing you could speak some German...had a license....and had a 3-to-6 month contract.....while staying in a hotel locally (paid by the bus company).
Inability of the cities to attract drivers locally? Well....yeah.
Part of the blame is shift-work....part is the pay-scale.
Care-givers the same way? Yeah. I went to a German class in 2016....Czech gal....was offered a pretty heft pay-situation (in her mind) to work at a local retiree-home in Wiesbaden. But she had to speak at x-level for the job.
Again....same deal....shift-work, and limited pay-scale.
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