Commentary: Illinois manufacturers have a job waiting for you – Chicago Sun-Times*

Mark Denzler, of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association: "In all, it’s estimated that the manufacturing industry supports nearly 30% of all jobs in Illinois, making it among the state’s largest industry sectors. But one of manufacturers’ biggest challenges right now is finding qualified talent..."  
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mqyl
3 years ago

Some American people today don’t want to work for a living but still want the pay. In particular, it’s beneath these people to work skilled factory jobs like welders, QC technicians, and CNC machine operators. Also, some of our young people don’t want to start at the bottom and move up; they want the higher pay right away. In either case, you wouldn’t want people with these attitudes working in your factory anyway.

Tubal-Caine
3 years ago

The statistics regarding job openings now and in the future are same rubbish I heard during the past six decades from the National Science Foundation about engineering shortages. It is a subterfuge by university professors to fill their classes and for industry to obtain cheap, disposable engineering talent; that is why our colleges are filled with wealthy scum from Red China. Are you old enough to recall the recession of the 1970’s? The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, is one those societies run by academics and industry. Back in the 1980s working engineers nearly voted the academics out… Read more »

Dave Hardy
3 years ago
Reply to  Tubal-Caine

Yeah, they post adds to secure H1-B workers. It’s the tried and true outsourcing business model.

Dave Hardy
3 years ago

Maybe the manufacturer’s association should have thought about long term ramifications before their members rescinded every employment contract and coerced employees into experimental medical procedures as well as violated personal privacy laws. I don’t know about you guys, but I evaluate my counterparties before I enter into a contract. If Illinois employers repeatedly violate clauses and local courts refuse to adhere to the rule of law, why even bother? Requiring your kids to take experimental vaccinations isn’t exactly an incentive to move to Illinois either. This Infographic hasn’t aged well. https://ima-net.org/covid-19/ Lightfoot made the decision to steamroll the FOP last… Read more »

marko
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Hardy

You nailed it and it will take a generation or longer for business leaders to forget or forgive what these blue states have done and what they’ve shown themselves to be once covid unmasked them, tyrants hell bent on taking everything from you.

debtsor
3 years ago

Why does a progressive paradise fail to attract workers?

Old Joe
3 years ago

Perhaps those folks that don’t win Toni’s GBI lottery could be asked to fill out one of these job applications@

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