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Joe Cowan, president and chief executive of Cowan Systems LLC in Halethorpe, said he would hire at least 30 drivers for his trucking company at "$50,000-plus salaries," but he can't find any.
A quarter of the Restaurant Association of Maryland's members say labor issues such as finding good workers are their primary concern. A quarter of the state's small businesses have job openings, an increasing share, according to the latest poll by the National Federation of Independent Business's NFIB Research Foundation.
Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, which every year creates about 500 jobs and hires about 2,000 workers, is dealing with shortages on both ends of the spectrum of needed skills: pharmacists and other highly trained personnel on the one hand, and jobs such as cooks and laboratory technicians on the other.
"The demand is outstripping the supply much more now than it did five years ago, 10 years ago," said Pamela Paulk, vice president of human resources at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System.
I know what some of these long haul truckers do hr. wise. You figure their wages up door step to door step and they are working for chump change. Little time at home. Trucking outfits that pay a decent wage get drivers. Those who want slaves don't. Simple as that. Just another excuse to bring in Mexican drivers. (who you don't want to share the road with).
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