Re: “Local manufacturing companies struggling to fill open jobs”
Increase the pay and benefits.
Improve the working conditions.
Works every time.
If a company can’t afford to do that, then it needs to change its business plan.
If the new plan doesn’t work, the company needs to shut down.
Same story here in Tulsa/NE OK and one of the employers is the same, Vallourec is at the Port of Muskogee. It wasn’t that long ago that they were at basically a skeleton crew and then it was “Katie bar the door” for the need to hire to meet demand. No welder or machinist who can pass a piss test needs to be out of work around here. I can’t walk into a manufacturing facility for a meeting without them asking the question about how to hire people. Now throw in that there are two large employers about to open operations, one being Amazon Distribution and the other HVAC sheet metal duct manufacturing. Each want to hire 1000 people. It’s going to be interesting.
Stories from the local manufacturing industry aren’t good on hiring. Tons of places are hiring but the numbers are at least two thirds of applicants at a minimum can’t pass a drug test. Some potential employers even have rates of nearly 90% applicants who can’t pass.
Same here in Orlando....nobody wants to pay anything. I was rejected as a plant manager because my base demand was $75K. National ave is almost $100K. They required an engineering degree and Max range was $60K...they also required 10 years of plant and management experience, which I have in spades.
Too many workers are married to their jobs and don’t dare to look for better employment elsewhere.
Many of them were unemployed before and are happy to have a job today.
What you can’t find employees in the myriad of “Gender Studies”, or “Liberal Arts”, or “Philosophy” majors?