Letter to the editor: Why aren't people working?

There’s a worker shortage everywhere, despite some companies offering as much as a $3,000 sign-on bonus if hired. School bus and truck drivers, fast-food and fine-dining workers, warehouse, manufacturing and skilled laborers, police officers, dock workers, grass cutters, babysitters — the list goes on and on.

Teachers and nurses are being told to get a covid-19 shot. If they refuse, they can be fired. Employers are telling them “no jab, no work.”

Young or old, it doesn’t matter. Employers are desperate for workers. They will take your seventh grader; they will take Grandma and Grandpa, 70 to 80 years old. They don’t care. If you can fog a mirror, you’re hired.

So, despite thousands of job openings, employers can’t get people to work. Such is life in today’s America.

George Wesolosky

Leechburg