Posted on 06/17/2018 6:17:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MASON CITY, IowaManufacturers in northern Iowa are begging Terry Schumaker for freshly trained workers for their factories. The problem is he doesnt have enough students to train.
Its not like we have the people beating down our door to apply, said Mr. Schumaker, a dean at the North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City.
It is a problem playing out in many parts of the Midwest, a region with lower unemployment and higher job-opening rates than the rest of the country. Employers, especially in more rural areas, are finding that there are just too few workers. That upends a long-running view in Washington, D.C., and many state capitals, where policy makers often say the unemployed simply lack the skills to get hired....
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Translation: Not enough people to work for peanuts, like illegals do.
Quick, send busloads of foreign invaders. /s
Same thing here in Minnesota, at least where I work.
We have a temp agency that has provided us with entry-level factory operators for some years.
They get trained on the day shift. If they make the grade, they get hired fulltime on off shifts, with benefits.
We’re running low on temps. The agency has resorted to posting signs all over the local community. Begging for applicants.
Little or no experience required.
$14.50 to $15.50 per hour.
These effin companies are just too cheap to train young people.
They pay welders peanuts where you live?
The Wall Street Journal has been a mouthpiece of the Cheap Labor Express for decades.
They want to convince US we need to import more cheap labor.
China did not build a huge $375,000,000,000.00 per year trade deficit, because America is overflowing with great jobs.
President Trump you have the right idea, but please be for AMERICAN JOBS.
Thank you.
Then we can eliminate the positions!
An 18-year-old making $18/hr ain’t bad for starters. Just teach him to follow directions. I say let them start at age 16 if they can pass the GED.
By the way,
That is a huge $375,000,000,000.00 trade SURPLUS from China’s perspective..
From America, that is a huge trade deficit.
Largest on record.
If you could be sure that you could make a life in Iowa with your family for 20 years or so, that would be one thing. But you can’t. It’s a roll of the race.
We were in Oklahoma when everything - oil, banking, telecom - crashed. It was a bloodbath. Everyone moved. I have only one friend still in Oklahoma still from those days, 15 years ago.
Sounds like the nation is in a ‘wage correct’ mode.
Might also have something to do with them getting tired of constantly having a bullseye on their head, for tornadoes.
Oklahoma really is in a sort of heavy area, for those.
Same here, temp to perm with all benes, after a probation period. Use multiple temp agencies and they can’t get enough people. Well, they maybe could if so many didn’t fail the pre employment drug test. Also, after 30 years of bashing mfging in academia, the vast majority of millennials are too good to work in a factory.
Yeah, we did lots of huddling in the laundry room waiting to die.
I lived in Iowa from 1974 to 2002. Didn’t seem expensive, schools are better than average. Winters are cold but that is true of half the country.
>>Translation: Not enough people to work for peanuts, like illegals do.
Exactly.
After getting my current job in 1991, I asked a co-worker...”Why are there so many Asians working here?”
The reply was...
“They passed the drug test.”
True story.
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