“Skilled Labor”
“Can call the shots”
Too bad the definition of skilled labor is so subject to re-interpretation, and prior experience becomes irrelevant after five years.
It would also help if industry were less concentrated into industrial parks at major cities.
Where I am the nearest decent jobs are at least sixty miles (An hour+) away.
So the employers get concerned the employee will not always arrive on time due to weather or traffic.
Their answer to the “Labor shortage” is twelve hour days, which discourages anyone over forty.
Bottom line, we could have an even better economy if companies were not so clustered together away from willing workers.
Agreed, jobs are currently clustered in metro areas. But over time companies will build in towns w 20k-50k population due lower land costs, skilled workforce and lower wage scales. When this occurs - boom times. My hometown of 18K, just had a long time company announce expansion and 300 more jobs. This is huge for a small town in NW Ohio.