I have a decade of experience in manufacturing.
The only applicants I get are immigrants and ex-cons.
The ex-cons normally MUST have a job as a condition of their parole. Their productivity is piddly compared to the hard working immigrants. Some of them turned out to be dangerous to the other workers so I laid them off.
I used to have a small factory in a rural area with 30% unemployment. The Foreman and I would make bets on how many hours the Anglos would work before quitting. Often the Anglos would walk off the job after a couple of hours.
Farm boys were the only decent native born workers that I ever saw, and most of them were Hispanic.
I started cutting lawns at age eight. Started working Summers and weekends at age eleven. A lot of it was hard, hot, dirty work.
Sorry to say many young people are just soft.
In my area there is a farmer’s market. The people running the cash register work from 6 am until 6 pm, rain or shine, 100 degrees or freezing. The men hauling in the vegetables work 16 hours a day under the same conditions.
The market has to hire a security guard to sit there all night to keep the layabouts from breaking in and stealing everything. Where does the layabout get the idea he has the right to steal from hard working, productive citizens?