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Businesses may stop locating in SC for fear that there aren't enough people to hire. Volvo and Mercedes Benz, for instance, have been disappointed with how hard it has been to find workers for their plants. Metro Charleston's unemployment rate is the lowest of the low.
The employable that have been unemployed or underemployed have exited the workforce.
That is soooo true.. people hear that the unemployment rate is low.. they often don't think about the people that either got frustrated and stopped looking for work or were never looking in the first place.. they are considered out of the Labor/Workforce thus not counted....Many are often structurally unemployed especially if they were laid off from a factory or mill and don't necessarily have a transferable skill set to another type of technical job.. Of course they could always become "under employed" and take a job making less wages but I guess some folks would just rather go on unemployment or do otherwise than do that specially if it is a significant drop in pay but also stressful........???
Workforce reduction from factories and mills has resulted in members of the workforce struggling to find work elsewhere with limited skill sets and comparable pay and benefits.
Becoming underemployed by taking a job with less pay is a decision not taken lightly. Unemployment benefits are temporary. Becoming employed for less pay short-term could be better than being unemployed. Long-term employment remains to be addressed through vocational training and permanent employment elsewhere.
I was told by a close friend in construction/engineering that there was no way in hell that Volvo and MB could find enough skilled workers to run those plants and that was years ago right after they announced.
I was told by a close friend in construction/engineering that there was no way in hell that Volvo and MB could find enough skilled workers to run those plants and that was years ago right after they announced.
I guess we can expect another big wave of migrants to fill the jobs.
I was told by a close friend in construction/engineering that there was no way in hell that Volvo and MB could find enough skilled workers to run those plants and that was years ago right after they announced.
Those companies coming here are coming for cheap labor. They know it and they are willing to train unskilled workers to perform tasks. Afterall, how much ability/training does it take to teach someone how to screw a wing or a fender on?
Does not Boeing have a deal with Trident Tech to train people how to screw a wing on?
Phil Noble, a business consultant from Charleston who is running for governor as a Democrat, told an Upstate newspaper last month that Volvo feels misled by the state Commerce Department's promise to provide a well-trained workforce. He said a Volvo executive told him the automaker would have located elsewhere had it known how hard it would be to find good workers.
"He said your state government lied to us," Noble told the Anderson Independent-Mail. "They said the people would be there to do the job, and they’re not."
Here are two reasons given for the worker shortage in that same article:
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Enrollment in South Carolina's technical schools has been on the decline, including at Trident Technical College where training programs in aerospace and advanced manufacturing are designed to help fill jobs in the Charleston region. Trident Tech enrolled 13,271 students last fall — 24 percent fewer than in 2013.
Alexander Acosta, the U.S. labor secretary, said perception is a big part of the problem.
"We are sending a horrible signal to young Americans across the country that these are not good careers when, as a factual matter, they are," Acosta told the congressional committee. "They pay well. They're great, family-sustaining jobs"...
At 58, Tom Sabourin is part of the age group adding workers to the labor force. A Eutawville resident who drives more than an hour each way for a job at Joint Base Charleston, Sabourin thinks employers are needlessly eliminating qualified workers based on pre-employment tests that seem to have little relevance to the advertised job.
After applying for a job as a multi-craft maintenance technician at Volvo, Sabourin — who has experience as a heavy-duty truck mechanic — said he aced a skills assessment test but then failed an aptitude test that resembled a video game, in which participants are required to memorize information about a series of pictures flashing by on a screen. A week later, he received a rejection letter.
Basically there is a theoretical workforce but nobody actually wants to work. The labor participation is too low. It’s easier to live at home forever.
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