Steve Lowe Jr. is scrambling to find more than a dozen skilled machinists, experienced engineers and laborers after his company recently won a multimillion-dollar contract to build giant camshafts for diesel locomotive engines. He said he’s sought out state work force agencies, local community colleges and employment agencies in seeking the workers he needs to […]
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Big firms still offer employees better pay, benefit deals than smallest firms
One area in which the conventional wisdom about small business holds is in benefits. Workers at smaller firms earn less in wages, get fewer paid days off and receive less generous health insurance benefits than their counterparts at large companies. The compensation gap is huge between businesses that employ between one and 49 workers, and […]
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'Skills gap' goes national
Via Politico.com, a new analysis is out from Bloomberg BusinessWeek on a topic familiar to Bridge readers this week — the “skills gap”: “FIRST LOOK: AMERICA OUT OF WORK – Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover, “America Isn’t Working,” looks at the skills gap among American workers. From the piece by Drake Bennett: “Even with 14 million Americans […]