$20 a hour for warehouse work doesn't compute when the person has their rent jump from $1000 to $2000 or more in a month over the last year or two. We have had several 30+ year skilled labor employees quit my place of employment and go elsewhere in the last few weeks because the company isn't changing with the times. A 3% raise after 6 years of no raises during the good times isn't going to cut it in the free market. Loyalty is a 2-way street, and the power is changing hands for the first time in a generation. If you feel you are underpaid, you are an idiot for not looking elsewhere right now. As a company, you either adapt or die...its that simple.

And please stop using stimulus payments as a reason for people not working. Do the math in your head and think about the amount of money which was handed out to each person over the sum of all stimulus payments, and ask yourself how you live for 2 years on that. $1200+$600+$1400 doesn't go very far.