Posted on 06/14/2018 8:00:10 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
A labor shortage issue is increasingly weighing on small businesses around the country. This comes despite record-high confidence on Main Street.
In May, one-third of small-business owners reported job openings they could not fill, and 12 percent reported using temporary workers.
Mike Fredrich shows off unmanned presses in his Manitowoc, Wisconsin, company. They're ready to start production at MCM Composites, a 55-person enterprise that makes custom thermoset molding.
The only problem? Fredrich has no one to operate them.
"These tools are heated to 300 degrees," he said. "But we're not running them. Had we had the people for the first shift, we could have been running this all day. But we don't, so they sit here heated, ready to go, with no action."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
There is simply no way the millions of unemployed from the past 10 years simply became employed this fast. There are still millions out of work.
“Despite”, I think they misspelled “Because”.
Wages self regulate. The market determines the levels for varying positions. It’s all about supply and demand. Absent government interference it all will work out just fine.
Coaxing an idled workforce out of the corners requires a certain overcoming of inertia.
Will the later Trump administration look like I-like-Ike’s? As the secular left fades away robbed of a cause?
Reaching deeper into training will need to be part of an answer, once cherries are picked.
No, it’s more like BOHICA*.
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*Bend over, here it comes, again!
I smell the BS coming out of the elite investor class that wants shamnesty no matter what.
I saw a millenial type in a McDonald’s parking lot panhandling and asking for leftovers.
I’ve been destitute and desperate but I never even thought about begging.
You precisely state the problem those reporting and all of the "talking bobble heads" in the MSM REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE. The wages for many of these jobs, even in the non service, non manufacturing sector jobs stink on ice.
Wall Street's doing great, CEO's and "management" are all doing great and lining THEIR POCKETS. Meanwhile the jobs they offer pay peanuts.
Not only that, but new workers like teenagers and college students and college graduates etc enter the work force every year.
This alleged shortage is just a way to try to justify importing foreign workers at cheaper wages by the dirtbag cheap labor express aka US Chamber of Commerce, Koch Bros, etc.
Ha!
I mean the ridiculous requirement of ‘no former drug usage’. Outside of work hours it’s nobody’s business; if they think it is they damn well can close their doors for all I care. Myself I like a beer or 7 some nights, and could care less if a co worker smokes a joint after work as long as they don’t indulge before the workday. tell me what to do on my off hours and you can go to hell and/or bankruptcy court for all I care, outside of not actually being wasted when clocking in or during shift it’s nobody’s business- and if they have to have people with a ‘history’ acceptable to them then they can pay through the nose or close their doors for all I care. Don’t like druggies, but dislike drug warriors and busybodies even more.
Re :There is no such thing as a shortage of workers and anyone who ever tells you that is a fool or a liar.
There is only insufficient wages. You offer enough money you can get someone to do anything you need to do.
All these “shortage of workers” articles are really bids to suppress wages, which are finally starting to rise after decades of stagnation.
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There is only insufficient wages. You offer enough money you can get someone to do anything you need to do.
All these “shortage of workers” articles are really bids to suppress wages, which are finally starting to rise after decades of stagnation.
Adding my kudos to the other replies; this post says it all.
Absolutely.
In the story, there’s Boston Engineering, which, if they wanted to get non-engineers and program managers up to snuff to work these positions, would take a lot of training, maybe years, and the plastic hot injection jobs, which you could probably train willing, motivated, no drug-induced people who are unskilled in about 6 weeks.
In Alabama, we’re seeing a lot of car manufacturing business moving here, and they are looking to train people. The biggest Super Walmart in my county just opened a huge training facility.
My 17 year old son, who graduated high school last month, is in a new training program being run by Easter Seals. He started Monday. They spent the first few days learning work ethics, behaviors and proper appearance. Yesterday they were teaching them how to appear, dress and behave at a job interview.
You wouldn’t think such skills were needed, but they are!
The photo shows a good looking gal working there. I say that is a benefit.
Shortage of qualified workers...all over the workplace.
Companies can train but can’t undue drug use or snowflakiness...
The USPS emailed me a few hours ago with an offer to be a substitute rural mail carrier...the only offer I've gotten in months. It may be just part-time, but at least I will have the time to go to my local tech school and pick up a certificate or two, perhaps even a two-year degree. Small potatoes? Yes. Do I want a boatload of debt from going after a bigger degree? Nope. Not at age 50.
I’ve got a resume that has bruises in part because I was impatient with offices at which I worked. I wanted things done right, knowing from decades of experience what benefit could result when they are done right, and what handicap results when they are done wrong. They wanted no squeaky wheels.
Well, I am forced to confess that patience is a virtue after all. A more evil age will be polluted with more evil everywhere, including in its offices.
And so the wise would-be workforce of tomorrow will have to understand that they are facing social ills that yesteryear’s businesses would have had the grace to work past. Money doesn’t solve every problem after all.
Or over-arrogance
A beer distributor exec complained to me a couple days ago about the trouble he had hiring workers. CDL holders are being paid better by oil and timber companies and general laborers are in short supply. I replied that it was a great thing that there were so many jobs to be had. He says, yeah it’s great that there are a lot of jobs, it means people have money to buy beer, but it does me no good if I can’t get it out there in the market.
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