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Read the following text and match each of the numbered items in the left
column to its corresponding information in the right column. There are two extra
choices in the right column. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10
points)
The decline in American manufacturing is a common refrain, particularly
from Donald Trump. “We don’t make anything anymore,” he told Fox News, while
defending his own made-in-Mexico clothing line.
Without question, manufacturing has taken a significant hit during recent
decades, and further trade deals raise questions about whether new shocks could
hit manufacturing.
But there is also a different way to look at the data.
Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge:
instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few. Despite trade
competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens
of thousands of retiring boomers every years. Millennials may not be that
interested in taking their place, other industries are recruiting them with
similar or better pay.
For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers—and
upward pressure on wages. “They’re harder to find and they have job offers,”
says Jay Dunwell, president of Wolverine Coil Spring, a family-owned firm, “They
may be coming , but they’ve been plucked by other industries
that are also doing an well as manufacturing,” Mr. Dunwell has begun bringing
high school juniors to the factory so they can get exposed to its culture.
At RoMan Manufacturing, a maker of electrical transformers and welding
equipment that his father cofounded in 1980, Robert Roth keep a close eye on the
age of his nearly 200 workers, five are retiring this year. Mr. Roth has three
community-college students enrolled in a work-placement program, with a starting
wage of $13 an hour that rises to $17 after two years.
At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks
flustered by the copper coils he’s trying to assemble and the arrival of two
visitors. It’s his first week on the job. Asked about his choice of career, he
says at high school he considered medical school before switching to electrical
engineering. “I love working with tools. I love creating.” he says.
But to win over these young workers, manufacturers have to clear another
major hurdle: parents, who lived through the worst US economic downturn since
the Great Depression, telling them to avoid the factory. Millennials “remember
their father and mother both were laid off. They blame it on the manufacturing
recession,” says Birgit Klohs, chief executive of The Right Place, a business
development agency for western Michigan.
These concerns aren’t misplaced: Employment in manufacturing has fallen
from 17 million in 1970 to 12 million in 2013. When the recovery began, worker
shortages first appeared in the high-skilled trades. Now shortages are appearing
at the mid-skill levels.
“The gap is between the jobs that take to skills and those that require a
lot of skill,” says Rob Spohr, a business professor at Montcalm Community
College. “There’re enough people to fill the jobs at McDonalds and other places
where you don’t need to have much skill. It’s that gap in between, and that’s
where the problem is. ”
Julie Parks of Grand Rapids Community points to another key to luring
Millennials into manufacturing: a work/life balance. While their parents were
content to work long hours, young people value flexibility. “Overtime is not
attractive to this generation. They really want to live their lives,” she
says.
says that he switched to electrical engineering because he loves
working with tools.
41. Jay Deuwell points out that there are enough people to fill the jobs
that don’t need much skill.
42. Jason Stenquist points out that the US doesn’t manufacture anything
anymore.
43. Birgit Klohs believes that it is important to keep a close eye on
the age of his workers.
44. Rob Spohr says that for factory owners, workers are harder to find
because of stiff competition.
45.Julie Parks points out that a work/life balance can attract young
people into manufacturing.
says that the manufacturing recession is to blame for the lay-off the
young people’s parents.
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