“”Employers who complain that they can’t find qualified workers - Utter BS!””
You’re not paying attention. Employers in the manufacturing sector have been on the news recently emphasizing this very problem.
One company in MI has 200 openings to fill and is unable to find anyone qualified. That company said if someone comes in the door with skills and qualifications, they hire them on the spot even if they don’t have an opening for their particular skills at that time.
It IS a big problem and one we can thank the public school system for. Manufacturing jobs have been stigmatized and young people would rather go without jobs than LOWER themselves. I suppose “public service” is more rewarding but I guess they can’t find work in that field either.
They could always go to college, run up debts, attend law school and then they could run for president. No experience OR SKILLS necessary.
One company in MI?
"Michigan's unemployment rate will top 15% through 2011, U-M economic forecast says"
What company? I smell pure BS
"Darlene Miller, CEO of Permac Industries in South Burnsville, Minn., said the days are long gone when a new hire could learn how to operate machinery on the job. Miller said she would add another half-dozen workers to her payroll of 38 workers — if she could find people skilled at operating the high-tech equipment she recently purchased to boost productivity.
"We just can't afford to take the time and the money to hire and someone to just shadow someone else and learn hands-on," she said. "The equipment is just too high-tech to do that."
Miller is a member of President Barack Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which recently announced a goal of turning out an additional 10,000 American engineers annually by leaning on the private sector to boost university funding, add internships and create other incentives.
"These are the jobs of the future. These are the jobs that China and India are cranking out," Obama said in a visit to a Durham, N.C., lighting factory last week. "And we’re falling behind in the very fields we know are going to be our future."
Source MSNBC and the Obozo propaganda agency.