Hard to believe the company cannot find workers at that rate though. . .
As much as some parts of the country are going to find this hard to believe, we do have a tremendous labor shortage down here in South Florida. Our county's unemployment rate is 3% and for the life of me I can't see who the 3% is.
We took THREE MONTHS just to hire a receptionist. Our city library is now over a year past due on its construction deadline because we can't get either supplies or labor to complete the building.
I feel bad about the parts of the country that are having difficulties like the Midwest and some parts of the Northeast, but this is more of a problem down here that many of you seem to be willing to acknowledge. I don't want open borders and would certainly want many more border guards, but we also need some rational way to increase our labor pool here.
I think Michigan is the only state in the Midwest with unemployment problems. Likely they would go away should the Unions be removed from the scene.
What are you doing to try to get more workers into the area? I don't just mean you personally, but the area leaders as well. My brother was in Florida and Louisiana 5 months ago and he said it seemed like most of the contractors wanted illegals and in fact many contractors brought them with them to start reconstruction. He was working in insurance claims, he was employed and not seeking work, while he was there- just going by what he saw happening. There was an article here on FR about workers who were already on the jobin LA being laid off as illegals came in. These stories scare people away from the South. My nephew wanted to try for work there, but did not want to travel all the way there to find out jobs were taken by illegals.
What ever jobs are open, you all need to try to get the word out. I believe in rational solutions to these issues also, if workers are really needed from other countries, we need to make sure the companies can get them. We also need to make sure it is a genuine need, so companies will not use the system to get cheap labor without really trying to get US Citizens to do the work first.