Well isn't that just a slap in the face of everyone that wants to work and can't find a decent full-time job...
“There are 600,000 jobs in manufacturing that are going unfilled today”
There has to be much more to this. If there were that many manufacturing jobs out there, we would have many more people looking for things to buy than are available. Industry couldn’t keep up with demand, and it would be a seller’s market. That’s just not the case. My understanding is that until manufacturers starting cutting back a bit - because the demand wasn’t there for their products, they we running inventory surpluses. This isn’t what happens when there is a great unmet need for workers.
I would wager that what they really mean is that there is a need to pump 600,000 people into the system that will work for significantly lower wages than industry is used to paying in the US. They want a flood of new workers such that they drive down the cost of American labor.