{"id":184648,"date":"2012-02-23T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/23\/being-unwilling-to-train-employees-is-not-a-skilled-worker-shortage\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:53:00","slug":"being-unwilling-to-train-employees-is-not-a-skilled-worker-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/23\/being-unwilling-to-train-employees-is-not-a-skilled-worker-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Unwilling to Train Employees is Not a Skilled Worker Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_audit\/the_cant_find_workers_meme.php\">Ryan Chittum says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>What\u2019s going on here? The Post writes that the laid-off workers don\u2019t know how to operate newfangled machinery and that Baby Boomers are retiring but younger generations \u201chave avoided the manufacturing sector because of the volatility and stigma of factory work, as well as perceptions that U.S. manufacturing is a \u2018dying industry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have another way to put that: These young folks don\u2019t want to spend a lot of money and time training to do a specific job they might not get only to get laid off when some private-equity slicks (where the real money\u2019s at) buy out the company and ship the jobs to China.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happens when owners and management have shredded the social contract. They find workers can\u2019t or won\u2019t do what they need them to. A flexible workforce has its downsides too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This entire spate of stories about employers being unable to find qualified workers is crap.<\/p>\n<p>What they really mean is that they cannot find people who need no training and are willing to work at slave wages, but that does not sell papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Ryan Chittum says: What\u2019s going on here? The Post writes that the laid-off workers don\u2019t know how to operate newfangled machinery and that Baby Boomers are retiring but younger generations \u201chave avoided the manufacturing sector because of the volatility and stigma of factory work, as well as perceptions that U.S. manufacturing is a \u2018dying &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,974,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-hack-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}