Interesting local insight.
There's similar stuff happening down here. Lots of places desperate to hire and offering various incentives.
Also quite a few businesses posting passive-aggressive (and infuriating) notices like "since nobody wants to work, we're short-staffed."
It's not that nobody wants to work, it's that nobody wants to work at ongoing personal risk for insultingly unlivable wages. I daresay that labor, perhaps, is having a moment. It'll be interesting to see how this all continues to unfold.