I'd have to ask how the company is staying in business with such issues. The obvious answer would be that they are still making money or perhaps they are failing.
I also take a bit of an issue with the term unskilled worker in tough manual labor jobs. It always seems like an insulting statement towards jobs that require you be in good physical shape. I mean we aren't talking about constructing a cheeseburger here.
I guess its like comparing a guy flipping burgers at McDonald's to an actual chef. There is low level physical labor like working at UPS then there is working on a road construction crew or working in a mine. Like the term unskilled has way too broad of a definition.
I just feel its a bit wrong to use the term unskilled worker to refer to jobs with fairly extreme physical demands and tough work conditions like working in a mine.
The other thing I'll point out is that I saw first hand how many people go out of their way to abuse cushy union safety laws. I'm talking about guys who just refuse to work but keep claiming their injury compensation package despite having recovered months ago. This gets very, very expensive. I realise it's romantic to think of the working class man as a noble simpleton just putting food on the table for the family, but in this particular case there were a lot of crafty meatheads using this practise to keep up their bachelor lifestyle and second morgage for their resort home in Thailand.
That is pretty reminiscent of the glory days of the United Auto Workers. Unskilled factory workers with a nice house, two nice cars, a lake house, and a boat. And they could get hammered or high at lunch because they knew they were untouchable. ---