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April 4, 2006
Rising Worker Shortages in Manufacturing
A recent survey by the National Association of Manufacturers found that 53% of companies responded have unfilled positions due to a lack of qualified workers:
[NAM President John] Engler noted that as the manufacturing sector continues to expand, manufacturers are more reliant on a high-performance workforce, and that qualified workers are getting harder to find. "We began seeing this issue a few years ago and it is becoming more pronounced in subsequent surveys," Engler said. "Half of the respondents currently have unfilled positions because they can not find qualified workers, and 70 percent of the new jobs that survey respondents anticipate creating will be for either skilled production workers or highly educated professionals. The need for highly-educated professionals specifically has nearly doubled from 2005 and we anticipate it will continue to grow in the future."
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