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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | THE SMART VAN FEBRUARY 16, 2012 Laser-Eye Surgery Repair: SmartVan’s Job of the Week Dresser-Rand is in need of a machinist who can travel to customers’ businesses to operate on its equipment, which includes lathes and mills. The No, it’s not science fiction, and your tool belt won’t have a holster for a ray gun. But in this week’s SmartVan Job of the Week, you’ll get to play with lasers. For real. Repair Eye Surgery Lasers. | TRADESMEN INSIGHTS NOVEMBER 30, 2011 “Right Skills Now” Provides Fast-Track Training for Tradesmen For American manufacturing to be successful, employers need machinists that have the right skills, and they need those skills now. She helped launch the training program for CNC machinists in her home state. As a small business owner representing the manufacturing sector, Ms. Miller, the first time she met with President Obama, she was asked to talk about the economy as it related to manufacturing and small business. To make this work, there had to be a partnership between the business community, the technical schools and organizations like NAM, NIMS and ACT,” Ms. | | | | | | | MIKE ROWE WORKS AUGUST 17, 2011 The Unqualified Workforce Is Prolonging Our Economic Woes He needs hundreds of technicians, welders, and machinists. But our human-resource managers are under a lot of pressure from the businesses to fill these positions.”. The challenge that Siemens faces highlights the nation’s large and growing “skills mismatch,” a widening gulf between the businesses that are hiring and the skills of millions of Americans who are looking for work. The U.S. is not only suffering from a skills gap it is suffering from a skills mismatch. Desperately Seeking Skills. How an unqualified workforce is prolonging America’s economic misery. percent. | GREEN GODDESS APRIL 11, 2011 And Nobody Knows - Ikea As I frequently blog about the "Swedish" behemoth Ikea and the truth behind their business and products I found another interesting article regarding their manufacturing plant here. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said a majority of eligible employees had signed cards expressing interest. Ikea's U.S. factory, residents couldn't believe their good fortune. The International Assn. | GREEN GODDESS JUNE 12, 2009 Maybe they mean Green as in "Alien" That operation was a unionized facility providing good, middle-class wages to the Machinist Union members employed there. But at the same time, they adamantly rejected requests by the Machinist Union to remain neutral in any efforts to unionize the Oregon work force. Business, government and labor must work together to ensure that this new green economy works to provide family-wage jobs with real protections and a strong voice in the workplace. spoke with a Teacher the other day about facing under/unemployment in the 3rd chapter of one's life. Well that experiment failed. | |
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