Coming Shortage of skilled workers Making

A total of 600,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs remain vacant throughout the United States due to shortage of skilled workers, according to the Institute for Manufacturing "skills gap" report. But if there is a significant shortage of skilled workers, employers will increase wages to attract them. That's the basic supply and demand economics. How do you explain the fact that manufacturing wages are not rising significantly above inflation? Hourly wage of the average for U.S. manufacturing jobs barely budged in three years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It stood at $ 23.08 in July 2009, $ 23.35 in July 2010; $ 23.75 in July 2011, and $ 24.00 this past July. There are several reasons for this: 1. In a slow economy companies often do not fill in the "open position" appears to hire them because they do not want to bring in people who are not really necessary. It is a longstanding practice. This means that the actual number is actually less than advertised.2 vacancies. Even if you need further assistance, management often make do with offering existing employees more overtime, giving them the ability to be more flexible, without the need to hire more workers. This is a temporary fix.3 reasonable. Workers just do not walk in manufacturing plants, although they are very experienced, and start working. They need training. Unfortunately, many companies cut training programs when the financial crisis hit and they restored it. If you fail to recruit and train workers, the problem is not the skill gap, per se, the problem is the reluctance of management to spend money on training.4. Finally, the numbers look bigger than they really are because of non-manufacturing also includes working at the manufacturing facility: Accounting, administration, delivery, and other positions should be reduced when the company cut costs, it is still classified as "open," even though many of them will never be filled and not manufacturing jobs.As I mentioned in my previous blog post about the skills gap, while we do not have the skills gap Now, demographics work against us. The average age of highly skilled manufacturing workers in the U.S. is 56. Now is the time to train the next generation. With all the college graduates are unemployed and underemployed now live in 'the basement of their parents, we would be foolish not to recognize him as a great asset talent. We need to recruit and train them to create the skilled workforce needed U.S. manufacturing Baby Boomers retire. U.S. factory might be changed slightly to accommodate their interests: latte, lunch pail in comparison. But not a bad thing. Essentially no repeal the law of supply and demand. If we have a huge national shortage of skilled workers, wages will rise rapidly and the company aggressively hired and trained. American manufacturing renaissance could stall if the company is not the skilled workers they need to meet customer needs and quality expectations. Training is fundamental to the process. Placing it on the back burner could jeopardize future.