Posted on 08/07/2018 11:10:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says 20,000 unemployed people are looking for work in Montgomery, Greene and Miami counties, the three counties that make up the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area.
But some employers look at the slim pickings they get from job fairs and want ads and wonder where all the good workers are.
The disconnect between those looking for work and companies struggling to find workers is one reason so many people in the region are not reaping the full rewards of the booming economy. It’s also a reason companies see their job openings going unfilled.
“What they are saying is, ‘I have the opportunity to win more contracts if I could find more workers,’” said Angelia Erbaugh, president of the Dayton Region Manufacturers Association, representing 400 regional companies. “So, they are in fact turning away work.”
How can companies get the workers they need to help the region prosper and how can more people land the jobs they need to improve their lives? That is the focus of The Path Forward, a Dayton Daily News initiative aimed at finding solutions to the region’s biggest problems.
There is good economic news locally. The June unemployment rate in the three-county Dayton metro area was 5.1 percent, according to non-seasonally adjusted numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s well down from the dreadful numbers posted during the recession years, and some previously discouraged job hunters are once again looking for work.
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local hospital refuses to raise wages and CEO states it will use immigrant labor...
If that worker shortage covers construction jobs, I can tell you what I think may be going on there...
After having profit on jobs cut by increased time to completion, my compadre and employer issued the edict that only people from this rural area get hired-no more labor hired from the city or larger towns. People out here know that skilled or unskilled, construction means physical work-the laborers we used to hire from the city were either lazy snowflake HS grads who had never had a job at all-they nearly fainted when they realized they had to lift more than 20 lbs and even get on a ladder-or they were users of meth and other hard drugs told to go to work by their probation officer, but totally useless for real work-neither the drug users or the snowflakes lasted more than a week, and drove up labor costs by taking forever to do things wrong or not at all- they were totally lazy and useless.
Hiring illegals is not an option-both my compadre and I are Texas-born Latinos and we despise mojados. Our labor costs came back into line when Pres Trump took office-we got more work and there are plenty of rural guys willing to do any work to eat and pay bills-no need to hire from cities where people apparently would rather collect unemployment-or SSDI if they can fake a disability-and get an EBT card...
But 90% can.
no, try 25 to 35%
We have also criminalized EVERYTHING.
and marijuana is the weekend party drug.
“Make not working less attractive. Stop coddling people who can’t or won’t give up their drug habits and other excuses with any more benefits than they require for survival.”
Yes-thank you! That is exactly what I’m talking about!
I wonder how many people would have left the line if he had said that a drug-test would be required in two weeks, and failure would be grounds for firing.
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four weeks to clear marijuana.
I wonder how many people would have left the line if he had said that a drug-test would be required in two weeks, and failure would be grounds for firing.
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four weeks to clear marijuana.
If they doubled the starting salary they will get all the non druggie good labor they want. So the trick is to find the correct price point between what they are offering now and double. Sorry if that makes their whittle heads hurt...
Haha, how true. Funny thing, I managed to graduate without debt, but that was back in 91, when being smart and hard working meant you could get a scholarship and pay your bills by being a co-op student.
Times must have changed somehow.
Ok as a percent of the population 10 million is 10/330 = 3%. Its called math. Try it.
3% use marijuana, 97% do not.
So the people that are unemployed would rather stay unemployed than work at whatever the going wages are.
If that’s the case cut the welfare anf food stamps.
Which indicates a problem in the "going wage".
Why work if you get every thing free from the government?
I think a lot of it pay. Employers want to pay low wages to people they want to work like coolies. So, they want cheap foreign labor.
That’s right! The snowflakes have been dumbed down; they can’t even wash their own clothes, wipe their asses. All they can do is eat and breath our air. “Hey grandma, how about another grape soda”.
I work in a well paying trade with lots of potential to be promoted.
These kids start at 10 an hour with no knowledge at all. Get a 2 dollar raise after 3 month probational period. Another buck at 6 months. The pay can be anywhere from 22.50 an hour to 46.10 an hour depending on experience. These kids show up in sneakers, no hard hat, no gloves, and spend most if their time on the phone. I tell them if you stick with it you could make almost 2000 a week. Most don’t last long. They complain about the heat and humidity. I tell them I’m 55 years old and if I can take it, you can take it. Most don’t last a week.
BS...What they're really saying is they have no desire to see their golden goose, millions of low wage illegal labor and chain immigration taken away. They've been riding the low wage illegal gravy train for years, and have no desire to see it derailed.
In fact, the last persons I’d believe is the thousands of greedy unscrupulous employers, the same one’s who’ve literally sold out our country and hired tens of millions of these criminals.
What’s the bottom line?
Profits regardless of consequences.
Yes. I just browsed through ads for jobs there.
Most of those that listed how much are ridiculous.
With the cost of food and fuel left out of inflation numbers, pay has become a farce.
I wouldn't walk across the street to bother interviewing for the pay most offer.
Private profits, socialized expenses.
Actually, I see this as a good thing. We “broke” our job training programs over the last few decades by switching from a scholarship based model to a needs based model where all training funding required students to fill out a FAFSA form, and then funds were not given to the best and brightest, but to those who “qualified” based on need. The net result of this was that we eliminated accountability to be able to do jobs by funding whatever the student wanted, not what the employers needed. I think this is now coming home to roost, and employers are going to start stepping in and taking back their funding from pooled funds in the Financial Aid office, to merit based scholarships again.
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