Companies expanding American production due to consumer preferences and tariffs are finding a dearth of skilled workers At Catawba Valley Community College’s Furniture Academy, students learn job skills from industry professionals.
The furniture industry in NC wholesale exported its manufacturing to China in the 1990s (read Factory Man). It devastated my hometown. Now they are surprised that skilled workers are not there?
debbie_dease I left NC years ago because there was nowhere to work except the government or the hospital. You reap what you sow.
Trouble is that part of America most people have never worked and aren't used to getting up in the morning except to go to the off licence and stock up
Are they paying a decent wage and providing some training?
Credit goes to the President for insisting that our manufacturers bring their businessm back home.
It's a pay problem, not a worker problem.
Too many Democrats, not enough wood workers.
I am versatile furniture maker. I can work perfectly for you
Maybe they should try increasing the wages.
The pay is terrible, the hours bad, minimal job security, unwilling to train. I can’t imagine why their having trouble finding workers.
More technology colleges the UK is moving back to that with the cost of degrees - it has to be lobbied WARINGSfurn
You see how much they really pay? and where they are located? In a Damn Farm Field!
Supply and demand! Increase wages, duh!!!
More woodworking sponsorship in high schools.
Open training programs. Easy enough. Lot of farmers out of work collecting welfare are able bodied and should be working like the SNAP recipients now must work
Make your place of work more attractive for young American workers, then. You want cheap skilled labor? Not going to happen.
I am a carpenter and furniture builder. I would never go to work for any major manufacturer because the pay is not worth it. I cant get by on what they offer and there is no advancement.
Pay higher wages
I am here 🙋♂️ i know work pipe welding SMAW>AW
Classic example of when immigrants who are eager to work can come in really useful...
100 opioid deaths / day add up over time ...?
This is great news! couches have long been a driving force in the US economy. Making couches is one of the most noble jobs a person can have! Their ability to be an economic driver is one of the many reasons why couchesaretight
Give seasonal visa to hard-working law-abiding Chinese workers ! it will change not only on the factory assembly but on ideology front too. What CCP most fear of? The mass-line . Let’s win that front robert_spalding realDonaldTrump SecPompeo
Jobs immigrants normally filled
Pay them more, you anti-free market hypocrites.
Then pay more!!!!! Supply and demand never fails you putzes
In the Old Days they would do in house training! You just had to be willing to work hard climb the company ladder!!
Aren’t enough skilled carpenters, plumbers, electricians...too
Hence, all the discount furniture joints....
that is what they said about IT workers in the mid 1990s to bust salaries down and allow all the visa workers and outsourcing. WSJ should know better. journalists get dumber and dumber or new generation that just graduated college writing.
Solution? IMMIGRANTS! They want to work and establish a life here in the US!!
Go to china. I hear they have skilled blue collar people
wages are too low
Restricting immigration is terrible for the economy.
That’s the problem, there are jobs, just not skilled people to fill them, to do so they have to find them oversees with the visa program! We need to have apprentice programs but too few young folks are interested in old world craftsmanship that was passed from father to son! Sad
I'd advise you to import workers from Egypt.
while walking through an upholstery plant in NC, i was amazed to see all the white hair on the production line and a lack of sub 40 workers. It's not $. there's no skilled labor for the next gen. Doesn't matter, it's all about automation anyhow...
potus working on this via work requiments for welfare
`Dear filthy peasants, we`ve given you factories, but you just aren`t qualified enough. Will be bringing in your replacement soon. Gotta keep those wages down.`
That's manufacturing somebody's got a magic wand
The death of shop classes probably contributes.
Pay'em more and they will come! That's the free market.
RichFusco1 interesting
Pay better. Isn't that the way of the free market?