Any time I read about a company unable to find workers, it always seems the wages offered are too low. Here in NJ trucking companies need workers, and while everyone has a story about a trucker who makes millions, that isn’t what these jobs are offering. Potential truckers aren’t sitting on their asses collecting welfare; they’re doing some other type of work where the pay better matches their expectations.
I don’t buy much into this story. Either the company has lousy expectations on what it costs to hire qualified labor, or their HR crowd are unqualified for the job.
This is exactly right. The stories we keep hearing about "worker shortages" in America are a myth perpetuated as propaganda for increased immigration and outsourcing. When employers offer competitive wages, lo and behold "worker shortages" vanish.
IBEW? Sounds like a union problem to me.
Bull snot! Pay people and they will come in droves. Millions out of the work force. Technicals over 50 that no one wants.
That Cuban bridge building company in Miami is available.
Most skilled jobs don’t need SJW. They need smart people.
other companies are providing better pay and incentives, luring some skilled workers away from the plant. said the IBEW
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Good to know that they are going cheap for the nuclear power plant.
Well it certainly difficult to find folks to submit to random Drug testing in a tight competitive labour market.
Made me smile. In Aerospace there was always a "Last and Final" date where the design was locked down and no changes were allowed.
Two weeks later there was "Last and Final - Revision A". Two weeks after that, "Last and Final - Revision B". And on and on. ;o)
They could hire all the people Westinghouse’s nuclear division has been laying off.