right have said it and they said it during the campaign, foreign labour undercutting british wages. never mind undercutting british wages, does it undercut the very idea of brexit, the spirits of brexit reis and the other question, of course, that we are focusing on this morning, our british workers ready to step up and fill the gap? colours, text is from a good din, and many in the cabinet are mindful of labour shortages due to brexit and go and visa rules have been relaxed or adjusted in some sectors in recent years to tackle worker shortages, suella braverman doesn t like it. is this about pragmatism against purism? i wonder. what do you think? lets speak to les webster. good morning. and the chief
he is here to talk about his efforts to address critical shortage of skilled trade workers. coach, great to see you. great to see you, too. bret: so this is a big deal for you. you are teaming up with skills u.s.a. this partnership to try to get skilled workforce. explain. this. yeah, today is skills u.s.a. signing day across the country. i was in bay city, michigan with wolverine boots supporting students committing to a career in the skilled trades. it s exciting. reminds me of national football signing day but right now there is 6.5 million deficit in the skilled trades in the united states. and the opportunity that young people have to be happy, to be productive can be found in the skilled trades. bret: so there is 9%, roughly, only of high school students that go in to the trades. but you look at this u.s. chamber of commerce stats, worker shortages, 3.3 million
Caterpillar, John Deere and Parallel Systems are working on autonomous vehicles to allegedly fill out the ranks at construction sites, farms and rail yards.
what difference will it make to your company s performance in the coming year now china has finally lifted its covid restrictions? it is going to be very significant. that market was closed. effectively, hotels were shut down, people were not travelling and now restrictions have been lifted it his back. we saw chinese new year to be about 90% of 2019 levels. i looked at the first couple of months of this year. 96% recovered so it is exciting to see. it will be a significant lift for our profits this year. your wider industry, travel and tourism, was responsible for 10% of the world s jobs. that is a huge number. since the pandemic many countries have seen worker shortages. how much of a struggle is it for you to find the workers that you need? it has been a significant challenge for the service industry, without question. we saw so many people leave the workforce.
very significant. that market was closed. effectively, hotels were shut down, people were not travelling and now restrictions have been lifted, it s back. we saw chinese new year to be about 90% of 2019 levels. i looked at the first couple of months of this year, and we re about 96% recovered. so it s exciting to see. it will be a significant lift for our profits this year. your wider industry, travel and tourism, was responsible for 10% of the world s jobs before the pandemic. that s a huge number. since the pandemic, many countries have seen worker shortages. how much of a struggle is it for you to find the workers that you need? it has been a significant challenge for the services industry, without question, because we saw so many people leave the workforce. now that we re into recovery, we see people come back. and so we can use the us as an example. you saw the jobs report they created 5,000 jobs in the us.