Posted on 10/12/2018 2:04:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Re: “Local manufacturing companies struggling to fill open jobs”
Increase the pay and benefits.
Improve the working conditions.
Works every time.
If a company can’t afford to do that, then it needs to change its business plan.
If the new plan doesn’t work, the company needs to shut down.
Cut Welfare Beanies, and more people would choose these jobs
Same story here in Tulsa/NE OK and one of the employers is the same, Vallourec is at the Port of Muskogee. It wasn’t that long ago that they were at basically a skeleton crew and then it was “Katie bar the door” for the need to hire to meet demand. No welder or machinist who can pass a piss test needs to be out of work around here. I can’t walk into a manufacturing facility for a meeting without them asking the question about how to hire people. Now throw in that there are two large employers about to open operations, one being Amazon Distribution and the other HVAC sheet metal duct manufacturing. Each want to hire 1000 people. It’s going to be interesting.
Stories from the local manufacturing industry aren’t good on hiring. Tons of places are hiring but the numbers are at least two thirds of applicants at a minimum can’t pass a drug test. Some potential employers even have rates of nearly 90% applicants who can’t pass.
Even Pittsburgh was a sparkling gem of a rebounded rust belt city compared to Youngstown which is the halfway point between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and combined the worst features of each, then took it down two notches further.
Youngstown! Do people appreciate how big this is?
Wake up and smell the coffee, dude. 60+ million Americans have been aborted since 1973. These future workers that all these employers desperately need ended up in dumpsters.
I do. I worked for Armco for most of the 70s. Still have the mugs. “Ironman.”
Same here in Orlando....nobody wants to pay anything. I was rejected as a plant manager because my base demand was $75K. National ave is almost $100K. They required an engineering degree and Max range was $60K...they also required 10 years of plant and management experience, which I have in spades.
Too many workers are married to their jobs and don’t dare to look for better employment elsewhere.
Many of them were unemployed before and are happy to have a job today.
There you go...stop subsidizing the bums.. If they get hungry enough they'll go to work.
I’m just a glorified mr.fixit IT/the help desk yoyo in a 24/7 manufacturing facility.
Most of the equivalent jobs around me top out around 40-50k. Amazingly enough, I am in the 60k area.
For a guy who took 6 classes in computer repair and only carries an active A+, I have been blessed. It took a lot of dues paying to get there.
I’m looking to get some security related certs.
What...do some of you think this hard to believe..?? I've heard this very same thing from different sources (employers) and it's true..
THIS.
I took a tour of an Armco facility waaaay back. As a kid.
Your second statement describes me.
I believe it. Unfortunately too many companies rely on twenty-somethings in HR. My resume was too much for most of them. And then I was caught in the crash of W/Obama.
I might as well throw resumes into the river. Probably less theft of info that way.
I worked in one. Made 5 times what everyone else was making.
What you can’t find employees in the myriad of “Gender Studies”, or “Liberal Arts”, or “Philosophy” majors?
It was basically a triple-witching hour for me.
Didn’t purse a job that I should have over a dozen years ago. That was a big mistake. Couldn’t quite figure out the logistics of it. One of two I probably should not have let get away.
Still, I have plenty of skills and experience.
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