US Factories Desperate For Workers -- April 3, 2021

Link here. 

Reading between the lines suggest issues with:

• qualifications and experience; 
• work ethic; and,
• drugs.

Just saying. But I may be biased. And old school. From the linked article:

Wages at his trailer factories are already far above state or federal minimums. The average starting pay is $19 an hour, while workers with skills such as welders make $24 an hour or more. “People talk about the oil boom in the Dakotas - how workers would get in their car and drive out to get jobs,” he said. “We have the same thing here, a jobs boom. But nobody’s coming.”

Many employers see a mismatch between those now out of work and the jobs in their plants.

“It isn’t Home Depot, or Starbucks, or a hotel,” said Kevin Kelly, chief executive of Emerald Packaging Inc. in Union City, California. He estimates one in five new workers quit within days and complain about the environment.

“They’re not used to machines that need to be greased,” he said, “and the smell of things like ink.” Emerald produces plastic bags for precut vegetables, which are custom printed with images and product information.