There are plenty of people with the appropriate skills and experience to fill many of those openings if those jobs do indeed exist. The problems lie with HR practices and Management’s utter dependency on them as a separate entity. HR departments have been empowered by Management’s preference for being disassociated from that process except for when a signature is needed.
Also, HR departments are very often run by women, a protected class and very, very often they are liberal Democrats and are more likely to discriminate against those who are not part of a protected class of US citizen.
IMHO, corporations who rely so heavily on their HR departments and corporate policies are shooting themselves in the foot.
Many a worthy, competent candidate gets turned away all because they don’t meet 100 percent of HR-established criteria and corporate “zero tolerance” policies and I’m not talking about hiring illegal aliens or violent felons.
Don’t hand me that crap about not being able to find good people because they’re right under your noses...or should I say thumbs?
Bravo
IAM Plans For Prolonged Strike At Bombardier Learjet
By Kerry Lynch kerry_lynch@aviationweek.com
Source: AWIN First
October 16, 2012
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is preparing for a prolonged strike at Bombardier’s Learjet facility in Wichita, approving increased benefits beginning on the third week of the walkout.
About 825 of Bombardier’s 3,000-plus workers in Wichita went on strike Oct. 8 after IAM members rejected the company’s five-year contract proposal over health benefits and wage increases.
Contract talks have not resumed since the workers went on strike, and none are scheduled. Bombardier says it is “hopeful that the union representing our employees will soon return to the bargaining table” and that the two parties can resolve the impasse.
Union leaders increased the strike fund benefits to $350 per week for members who participate in strike shifts. The union notes that additional benefits are available for six weeks, and the union would “review it at that point.”
In the interim, Bombardier has implemented a contingency plan to minimize disruption. The company has kept quiet on the plan’s specifics, saying only that it is “focused on continuing product development, aircraft deliveries and maintaining service to our customers.”
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