Labor force participation for the key 25-54 age group is as high as its ever been.
Quite a number of (but not all) gen Z or millennials now really are the instant gratification generation. I think I'n on the tail end of generation X but when I started kindergarten in 1987 there weren't cell phones, cd players had only been out a few years, my music class still had vinyl records, no internet unless you worked at Emory university or a couple of other colleges and it isn't the internet we think of now.
As a contractor I always heard "labor shortage " yet the problem was companies turning people away so they could hire the non citizens for way less. That being said one other problem is no work in many rural area's across the country. All the factory work dried up and left a lot of people with nothing to do. In the town I currently live in they lost thousands of manufacturing jobs and it's now a welfare town.
I could (and have posted it here in the past) demographic info that shows retirees 65-75 spend more money eating out than 25-35 Year olds, and the average new car buyer is now 53. Both probably because they can afford to. But the age stereotypes are nonsense based on actual numbers. Just like my post above regarding Work Force participation - yet 99% of retirees will tell you the majority of young people sit at home all day.
Ain't that the truth... And it ain't just limited to youth.
Of that there is no doubt - the basic construction jobs all are done (were done?) by immigrants.
The incident highlighted a long-standing issue and "grey zone" where foreign companies often rely on these short-term visas for technical staff to set up specialized manufacturing facilities due to the difficulty and delay in obtaining specific work visas (like H-1B) for this purpose. There may have been contractual deadlines regarding the plant construction timelines and due to Gov't red tape regarding work visas this was the workaround. Guess the plant will move somewhere else now.
Guess they can move their plant somewhere else and sell there lousy cars to someone else also.
In small town USA that would be a good wage. Unfortunately if you have to drive a 100 miles each way to the nearest city 20 bucks an hour would only cover fuel and car payment.
I work with allot of educated young folks - none of them are lazy. They are well paid and told they will be ranked (during job interview) - and, you don’t want wind up in the bottom 10%. Funny how well that works!
I've worked on many jobs where the electrical engineer can barely speak English and was paid half the rate of a young American graduate. I even met a doctor last year that spoke no English. The guy rambled on about something in a foreign language then got up and left. I sat in the room for at least a half hour before someone told me he left for the day. Needless to say I asked for a different referral and went to somebody else. On the other end of the spectrum my guys were all union and the rates got so high it was impossible to find work and I just gave up and retired. Personally I think we are all due for a massive reset of the economy.
Thinking their HR department is full of Americans - and know better …
That would be a good topic for a separate thread. I'll start it.
