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WTF || Ford Motor Company is confronting a major hurdle as it attempts to hire 5,000 skilled mechanics, even with salaries hovering near $120,000. CEO Jim Farley has warned that this worker shortage is a “serious problem,” one that stretches far beyond the auto sector and has become a national issue touching manufacturing, trucking, emergency services and more.
With over a million skilled-trade roles sitting empty across the United States, the divide between job openings and trained workers continues to widen, raising alarms about the long-term stability of the American labor force.
Speaking recently on the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast, Farley stressed that Ford is not the only company unable to find qualified workers. The country is currently short more than one million skilled-trade and manual labor employees, including crucial positions in electrical work, plumbing, emergency response, manufacturing and trucking. He noted that even when companies offer high pay, the supply of trained talent simply does not meet the increasing demand.
New federal figures back this up, showing more than 400,000 manufacturing positions still unfilled nationwide, at the same time unemployment has climbed to 4.3 percent. The data suggests the problem isn’t a shortage of jobs but a steep drop-off in the number of trained people available to take them.
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