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Article: Wanted: skilled workers; manufacturers struggle to fill jobs.
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- Erie Times-News (Erie, PA)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2005
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Byline: Peter Panepento,
Mar. 27--Mark McCain's company is so busy, he could easily add 10 new workers -- if he could simply find them.
Jerry Knight is ready to enroll unemployed toolmakers and assemblers in training programs that will prepare them for jobs at some of the region's highest-paying companies, but he cannot turn out students fast enough to satisfy the eager employers.
Welcome to Erie's employment market in 2005, a place where jobs are plentiful, but the stable of trained, skilled workers is unexpectedly small.
As recently as one year ago -- at a time when northwestern Pennsylvania was still feeling the sting of plant ...