Shortage of foreign workers in the construction industry threatens recovery

[NoshowJones]

17 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Do hard manual labor? yeah done it for years. Was it good pay? Not really but it was the most I could make so I did the work. I don't think raising a day's wage by 50 tbh would do the trick. Guess it's possible the Thais are just getting lazy. It's the case in the US so why not here.

"Do hard manual labor?" Never in my life, but I had no financial responsibility to anyone but myself, all my adult life I have been both a fully professional and semi professional musician, had all the driving licences HGV, PSV and Taxis, and I also worked as a trained private investigator, and have always had  my own houses on mortgage, and my last house before I came to Thailand to stay was fully paid for.

[Stargeezr]

The blue collar workers in Thailand get such low wages that only migrants who are willing to live

in horrible conditions, are willing to come to Thailand to work for the pathetic wages that they get.

  Posters on this forum should really go out and talk to the workers,  oh sorry I guess you would have to learn to speak Thai

to do that.  I am glad that my Thai relatives are lucky enough to have better paying jobs, but they do work hard to

get the money that they earn.  If the construction companies gave a living wage to the workers, then maybe more Thais

would work in the industry.  Just saying.

Geezer

[EVENKEEL]

4 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

The blue collar workers in Thailand get such low wages that only migrants who are willing to live

in horrible conditions, are willing to come to Thailand to work for the pathetic wages that they get.

  Posters on this forum should really go out and talk to the workers,  oh sorry I guess you would have to learn to speak Thai

to do that.  I am glad that my Thai relatives are lucky enough to have better paying jobs, but they do work hard to

get the money that they earn.  If the construction companies gave a living wage to the workers, then maybe more Thais

would work in the industry.  Just saying.

Geezer

As long as they allow the migrants to enter, things won't change. It is my firm belief that those Thais unwilling to work hard for 350 tbh a day will still be unwilling at 400-450 a day. Manual labor is becoming unpopular the world over.