U.S. factories desperate for workers, even as ranks of jobless remains high

[sunnam]

(Reuters) - Matt Arnold just spent $5,000 to run help-wanted ads for his company’s five trailer factories scattered from Pennsylvania to Utah.

“We hired two from the ads,” said Arnold, just a fraction of the 125 he needs to get back to full strength of 673 workers. Half the welding jobs at his Texas plant are open, for instance, creating a bottleneck in an operation that builds trailers on metal frames.

U.S. manufacturers have long grumbled about labor shortages, but the past year has proven particularly frustrating.

As the pandemic pushed millions out of work, most from service industries such as hotels and restaurants, many factories were pushed into overdrive by surging demand for everything from pickup trucks to plastic bags. And yet high jobless rates have not translated into workers flocking to open positions on assembly lines.

On Friday, the Labor Department said 916,000 jobs were created last month, the most since last August, including 53,000 manufacturing positions. That was the highest number of new factory jobs in six months.

The report’s manufacturing diffusion index, a measure of the breadth of hiring across some 75 goods-producing industries, registered one of its highest readings ever.

Manufacturing employment suffered a much less severe blow than service sector jobs last spring when COVID-19 first brought the economy effectively to a standstill. About one of every 10 factory jobs were eliminated in the shutdowns versus roughly one of every six service jobs. Factory employment is 4% below pre-pandemic levels, a deficit of 515,000 jobs, versus 5.5% for overall U.S. employment, with a total shortfall from February 2020 of 8.4 million positions.

Other indicators also point to a tight labor market at factories. Earlier this week, the Institute for Supply Management said its index for national factory activity jumped to its highest reading in 37 years in March, with its gauge of manufacturing employment rising to its highest level since February 2018.

One fabricated metal company quoted in the report said, “A lack of qualified machine and fabrication shop talent” has made it hard to keep up with demand.

Reuters

[sunnam]

India lo jobs levu. ikkademo jobs unna workers leru.

ikkada jobs ekkuva ayindi. anduke housing market thagge suchanalu kanaabadadam ledu. 😉

[Ryzen_renoir]

5 minutes ago, sunnam said:

India lo jobs levu. ikkademo jobs unna workers leru.

ikkada jobs ekkuva ayindi. anduke housing market thagge suchanalu kanaabadadam ledu. 😉

On the contrary , india lo kooda many industrial areas are desperate for workers especially in the south . 

Sricity's biggest drawback is lack of skilled manpower, companies are forced to engage north indian recruiters to bring in workforce . 

Andhra vallaki factory job cheyali antey istam undadhu , kaali ga ayina untaru kaani AC room lo IT job thappa inka emi cheyaru 

[jefferson1]

48 minutes ago, sunnam said:

(Reuters) - Matt Arnold just spent $5,000 to run help-wanted ads for his company’s five trailer factories scattered from Pennsylvania to Utah.

“We hired two from the ads,” said Arnold, just a fraction of the 125 he needs to get back to full strength of 673 workers. Half the welding jobs at his Texas plant are open, for instance, creating a bottleneck in an operation that builds trailers on metal frames.

U.S. manufacturers have long grumbled about labor shortages, but the past year has proven particularly frustrating.

As the pandemic pushed millions out of work, most from service industries such as hotels and restaurants, many factories were pushed into overdrive by surging demand for everything from pickup trucks to plastic bags. And yet high jobless rates have not translated into workers flocking to open positions on assembly lines.

On Friday, the Labor Department said 916,000 jobs were created last month, the most since last August, including 53,000 manufacturing positions. That was the highest number of new factory jobs in six months.

The report’s manufacturing diffusion index, a measure of the breadth of hiring across some 75 goods-producing industries, registered one of its highest readings ever.

Manufacturing employment suffered a much less severe blow than service sector jobs last spring when COVID-19 first brought the economy effectively to a standstill. About one of every 10 factory jobs were eliminated in the shutdowns versus roughly one of every six service jobs. Factory employment is 4% below pre-pandemic levels, a deficit of 515,000 jobs, versus 5.5% for overall U.S. employment, with a total shortfall from February 2020 of 8.4 million positions.

Other indicators also point to a tight labor market at factories. Earlier this week, the Institute for Supply Management said its index for national factory activity jumped to its highest reading in 37 years in March, with its gauge of manufacturing employment rising to its highest level since February 2018.

One fabricated metal company quoted in the report said, “A lack of qualified machine and fabrication shop talent” has made it hard to keep up with demand.

Reuters

valla pay scale ela undi cheppada?

 

[sunnam]

1 hour ago, jefferson1 said:

valla pay scale ela undi cheppada?

 

emi questions adi? aa news article chadivakane nuvvu ila question adigava?

[sunnam]

1 hour ago, Ryzen_renoir said:

On the contrary , india lo kooda many industrial areas are desperate for workers especially in the south . 

Sricity's biggest drawback is lack of skilled manpower, companies are forced to engage north indian recruiters to bring in workforce . 

Andhra vallaki factory job cheyali antey istam undadhu , kaali ga ayina untaru kaani AC room lo IT job thappa inka emi cheyaru 

vallu pay chese peanuts bihar vallu kaaka south vallu panisesthara. nuvvu bhale unnavu. 

[Ryzen_renoir]

3 minutes ago, sunnam said:

vallu pay chese peanuts bihar vallu kaaka south vallu panisesthara. nuvvu bhale unnavu. 

I mean they are paying well above the per capita income of Andhra for fresher jobs without exp .  Monthly welfare dabbulu mundhu chinna choopu . 

Inka entha kaalam govt sommu tho bhathakaleru , 80% of skilled jobs in sricity are by tamilians . They have much more per capita income than AP

[jefferson1]

16 minutes ago, sunnam said:

emi questions adi? aa news article chadivakane nuvvu ila question adigava?

chadiva... did i miss the pay scale ?

[bhaigan]

34 minutes ago, Ryzen_renoir said:

I mean they are paying well above the per capita income of Andhra for fresher jobs without exp .  Monthly welfare dabbulu mundhu chinna choopu . 

Inka entha kaalam govt sommu tho bhathakaleru , 80% of skilled jobs in sricity are by tamilians . They have much more per capita income than AP

Soon AP will be another Tamilnadu

People mindsets will change ani anukuntunna

[Ryzen_renoir]

5 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

Soon AP will be another Tamilnadu

People mindsets will change ani anukuntunna

AP is and will always  be a medicore state , not a failure not sucessful either . 

Upper caste capture of the political , beuracratic and judicial systems will not let any BC  , Dalits  prosper .

Sure enough some BC leaders , dalit leaders will prosper but majority of populace will remain poor and dependant on government doleouts . 

I don't think  only upper caste prosperirty is enough to uplift the society as a whole. Take education for example some of our people boast that we send maximum number of students to IIT ans IT jobs , the reality is majority of population study in shitty govt schools and colleges . 

Without education there is no development like tamil nadu

[Raven_Rayes]

38 minutes ago, Ryzen_renoir said:

I mean they are paying well above the per capita income of Andhra for fresher jobs without exp .  Monthly welfare dabbulu mundhu chinna choopu . 

Inka entha kaalam govt sommu tho bhathakaleru , 80% of skilled jobs in sricity are by tamilians . They have much more per capita income than AP

dude, your claims don't compute at all. 

are you claiming that people don't want to go to work for an above per capita pay (which is 12k/mo in Andhra), because govt pays them to stay at home for more than that? Do you understand the impossibility of this scenario? if the govt paid more than per capita, then per capita itself would be way higher. lol.

That's not why local people don't go to work. They don't go because they have other better sources of income with more personal freedom. Or perhaps they are too unskilled to work the jobs that are offered.

you pretend like people are lazy, and should be whipped to work by capitalists. lol.

[futureofandhra]

11 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

Soon AP will be another Tamilnadu

People mindsets will change ani anukuntunna

Tamil Nadu GDP is good unlike AP

they have so many income generating sources AP its getting tough

[Raven_Rayes]

5 minutes ago, Ryzen_renoir said:

AP is and will always  be a medicore state , not a failure not sucessful either . 

Upper caste capture of the political , beuracratic and judicial systems will not let any BC  , Dalits  prosper .

Sure enough some BC leaders , dalit leaders will prosper but majority of populace will remain poor and dependant on government doleouts . 

I don't think  only upper caste prosperirty is enough to uplift the society as a whole. Take education for example some of our people boast that we send maximum number of students to IIT ans IT jobs , the reality is majority of population study in shitty govt schools and colleges . 

Without education there is no development like tamil nadu

aah I see.. for some reason this logic doesn;t apply to Gujarat which is, according to you, doing well. 

[Ryzen_renoir]

Just now, Raven_Rayes said:

aah I see.. for some reason this logic doesn;t apply to Gujarat which is, according to you, doing well. 

Gujarat is also similar but they get their money from  capture of corporate sector all over india . 

Gujarat model cannot be replicated simply because their industrial sector generated vast money from other states 

[Raven_Rayes]

1 minute ago, futureofandhra said:

Tamil Nadu GDP is good unlike AP

they have so many income generating sources AP its getting tough

TamilNadu is nothing special. No state in India is.

AP has this thing they call the dutch disease. Its so rich with money earning opportunities with agriculture and port, that people have mostly an easy life, even they make less money than people in other state. They don't want to aim higher..

is that wrong? Isn't that the natural way for people to live? to do what they like and want to do? Should AP get up and run in some race, because its big daddy India wants it to? lol.