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All Labor is skilled Labor.
No. "Skilled labour" means that you're hiring someone because of a skill or training they already have.
A carpenter is skilled labour because you expect a carpenter to already be able to work with wood. Your not going to train them from scratch on the job. They'll already have served as an apprentice or been trained in some other way.
A fork lift driver would need to have a license before you hired them. Skilled labour.
Somebody packing boxes or flipping burger is "unskilled labour". On day 1 you'll be taught the job. There will be no prerequisite skills needed. It doesn't mean "there's no skill in this job", just that "there is no requirement to have a skill to apply this job".
They get taught the job, making them... skilled?
A carpenter gets an apprenticeship for 2-3 years where they get taught the job, does that make it unskilled as well?
Some jobs are easier to learn than others, that doesn't mean they're easier or worth less, or require no skills.
It makes the apprenticeship an "unskilled" hire, but afterwards they'd be a "skilled" hire for any carpentry job.
The term just means "Is there some required experience for this job on day 1?" not "Does this job require skill to do it well" because that's true of all jobs.