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Labor Shortage Edition:
Australia:
Nuke industry reveals skills shortage
AUSTRALIA may have to import skilled workers to operate a home-grown nuclear power industry. A Federal Government review into the nuclear energy is expected to reveal a shortage of skilled nuclear scientists and technicians. News Ltd reports the review - headed by former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski - is expected to produce a draft report by November 21 identifying skills and education in nuclear science as key issues in need of attention. Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane said yesterday an Australian nuclear industry could act as a magnet to highly skilled scientists and technicians who went overseas to pursue their careers. (Australian)


China:
Skilled labor shortage in China
U.S. companies in China continue to make some nice profits, but they are increasingly finding that it's difficult to staff their operations there with qualified workers. Ruth Kirchner reports.
SCOTT JAGOW: U.S. companies in China have a staffing problem: They can't find the right people to work for them. Ruth Kirchner reports from Beijing.
RUTH KIRCHNER: For the first time in five years, the skills shortage has emerged as the No. 1 headache for companies doing business in China. (Marketplace)

Web Site Breaks New Ground for China's Migrant Workers - RFA
A new Web portal that aims to help China's 150 million migrant workers find jobs, training, legal help and social activities is winning backing from officials anxious about social stability in a breakneck economy. (Radio Free Asia)

China sees soaring migrant population
China's migrant population has reached 150 million, 11.5 percent of the total, according to the State Population and Family Planning Commission.  China has been experiencing the world's largest population flow, with the number of migrants doubled in the past 10 years, said Wang Guoqiang, deputy director of the commission. More than 80 percent of migrants are rural people seeking jobs in cities, Wang told a national conference, noting that migrant workers would remain the majority of floating population for a long time. (MSDNChina)


Global:
The Coming Labor Shortage
Deloitte, the consulting group, recognizes that employee-retention strategy consulting will be a growth industry during the second half of this decade and well into the next one, so Deloitte commissioned a survey of HR execs that dissects companies' fears of the nationwide retirement time bomb and what Business 2.0 called "The Coming Job Boom" in its September, 2003 cover story. What's interesting about Deloitte's prediction of a "critical talent" shortage is that they're onto the fact this isn't about bosses alone. The biggest skills gap will be smack in the middle of the so-called creative class workforce. "Critical talent represents those individuals who possess highly developed skills and deep knowledge of not just the work itself but how to make things happen within a company," says the head of the consultancy's Human Capital practice. Utlimately, Retiring Workforce, Widening Skills Gap, Exodus of 'Critical Talent' Threaten U.S. Companies is a brochure for Deloittte's services but it's a very insightful one. (Next.net)

India:
Report: Skills Shortage, Labor Costs Challenge India Design

The rising cost of compensation for India's engineering workforce could deter companies from setting up more design centers in the country over the next two years, says a study.
An inadequate number of skilled engineers due to lack of specialized institutes and advanced technical courses poses a big barrier to the growth of India's VLSI design business for the next two years, according to a study by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA). The rising cost of compensation for India's engineering workforce could deter companies from setting up more design centers in the country over the next two years, forcing them to look elsewhere, the study found. But this situation should be resolved in three years, as India's engineering workforce grows, the study concluded. (Information Week)

Japan:
Japan threatened with labor shortage

Intensifying competition from nearby China and a declining birth rate are threatening Japan with a worker shortage that could chip away at its craftsmanship tradition, reports the Associated Press. In addition, Japanese companies struggle to attract younger Japanese because the group tends to look down upon production work as dirty, dangerous and tough. According to the Japanese government Statistics Bureau, the number of people employed in manufacturing has dwindled from about 15 million in 1990 down to 12 million. Conversely, jobs in retail and services grew. Politicians, intellectuals and educators say the younger Japanese are growing more like their Western counterparts in job-hopping and seeking dot-com riches. Workmanship that comes from years of on-the-job experience is being lost as more youngsters opt for white-collar work, says an official from a Japanese government training program focusing on manufacturing. (American Machinist)

Romania:
Romania Labor Woes on Verge of Crisis

A labor shortage in Romania is on the verge of becoming of a crisis, two months before it joins the European Union, President Traian Basescu said Monday. Basescu said that while some EU countries moved to limit the migration of Romanian workers, Romania itself was feeling the effects of a labor crisis, with employers unable to fill positions in construction, banking or public administration. "We believe that discussions in some countries (about migration) have more to do with domestic problems there and less with realities," he said, referring to Britain. "Romania no longer has an excess of labor available." (MSN Money)

South Africa:
Skills shortage must be addressed ‘sooner rather than later'

South Africa needs to address the skills shortage now, and not when things fall apart, says South African Institute of Measurement and Control (SAIMC) president Vivian MacFadyen. He notes that, although the skills level of those involved in instrumentation in the mining industry is high, he is concerned for the future because there is a gap in the age of those currently maintaining the equipment and their successors. This could result in a situation in which potentially dangerous processes are left in the care of people without sufficient on-site experience. He feels that the current situation, in which young people go to university for about eighteen months and consider themselves qualified technicians, needs investigation, as it could result in damage to process plants. (Creamer Media)

US:
Slow road ahead : America's long-term potential rate of growth is falling, perhaps to its lowest pace in over a century
EVERYONE knows that America's economy is slowing. Thanks to the bursting of the housing bubble, overall GDP growth has fallen back sharply. The biggest short-term uncertainty for the world economy is whether American consumers stop spending and drag the country into recession. But beyond the business cycle, another slowdown has received scant attention. America's potential rate of growth—that is, the pace at which annual output can expand without pushing up inflation—is also falling. By some estimates, it could drop to 2.5% over the next few years, which would be the slowest pace in over a century.If that happens, the consequences will be serious. Tax revenues will grow more slowly than expected. Monetary policy will become harder to manage: as the 1970s showed, inflation can get out of control if central bankers do not realise that an economy's speed limit has fallen. Financial markets will be disturbed as conventional wisdom adjusts from an assumption of 3-3.5% potential output growth, and investors downgrade their expectations. (Economist)

Guest Workers Seek Global Horizons: U.S. Company Exploits Migrant Labor
About 170 Thai migrants paid thousands of dollars to recruiters in Bangkok for the opportunity to work in the bountiful orchards of Washington state. Their tale illustrates the pitfalls of the H-2A guest worker program which is a mainstay - along with undocumented labor - of the U.S. agricultural system. The migrant workers paid up to $8,000 each to Thai recruiters working for Global Horizons, a California-based company, which then obtained H-2A agricultural guest worker visas for them, flew them to Washington and set them up in housing, as required by the federal program. Before taking the jobs, the workers had been told they would live in apartments, eat meals catered by a Mexican restaurant and be able to send significant amounts of money home to their families, according to the Seattle Times. (CorpWatch)

Immigration difference between a Speaker Pelosi & a Speaker Hastert?
DEAR REPUBLICAN FAXERS,
Disillusioned Republicans wondering whether to waste another vote on a Republican candidate for U.S. Representative may want to focus on what this election means for immigration in terms of who becomes Speaker of the House. Most likely if the Democrats win, the nation will have Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). If the Republicans hang on to their majority, we'll probably continue to have Speaker Hastert (R-IL). (NumbersUSA)

Remind me again...
Why we are putting ourselves through this torture known as university? Every 13 weeks it's the same stress - end of semester essays, exams, projects - all for what? A flimsy bit of paper and a photo opportunity that says, "yay, I made it"? It's kind of ironic when we're suffering a skills shortage in plumbing and other sorts of apprenticeships. Tradespeople earn stacks more than uni grads these days. But of course it's about more than the money - I don't think I could get away will telling my parents "hey, I want to be a hairdresser". Although of course they'd say, "that's ok sweetie, it's up to you". (currently under review)

Work, Poverty, Labor, Unions - Professionals - an endangered species?
The law of supply and demand suggests that when supply falls below demand, prices rise. A new survey suggests that professional workers are in short supply, and as a result their wages are rising. I report on the survey results below, but one question I have is whether this situation could be the result of problems I have repeatedly reported on access to higher education. Here and here and here and here. And more reports and stories here and here on this crisis. The press release on the Manpower survey finds shortages in many areas. (unbossed) Power firms look to stem labor shortage
Raymond Miller doesn‘t want to flip a light switch on one night and find out he‘s in the dark because there weren‘t enough workers to keep the country‘s power industry going. Figures vary among companies, but industry officials estimate that about half of the approximately 400,000 employees in the work force will be eligible for retirement over the next five to 10 years. These include workers who operate power plant equipment and repair the lines carrying electricity to homes and businesses. The companies also are offering grants and scholarships and helping develop curriculums that include algebra and calculus as well as courses on environmental regulations, combustion engines and electrical circuits. (Leading The Charge)

Labor shortage, costs easing; prices expected to rise
A shortage of experienced mine labor is still the biggest cost issue facing Massey Energy, Chairman and CEO Don Blankenship told analysts in a Friday conference call. But relief may be in sight.  Massey is going to be able to hire more "black hat" experienced miners in the near future than the relatively green "red hats." because cutbacks in Central Appalachian production, with some mines idled recently, will help stabilize the labor market, he explained.  "The labor shortage in Central Appalachia has caused a widespread productivity decline that has impacted all of the region's coal producers, including Massey," Blankenship said in the company's October 26 earnings release. "This decline followed two decades of improved productivity." (Platts)

The demographic makeup of Rhode Island is changing, and employers are trying to figure out what the change will mean for them.
Part of a larger national trend, the number of foreign-born Rhode Islanders, as well as the number of Rhode Islanders who speak English as a second language, is approaching a level not seen since the early decades of the last century. The majority of this growth, according to numbers provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, is the result of the rapidly increasing number of Rhode Islanders who come from Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas or descend from families from these countries. The state has seen this group, often referred to as Hispanics or Latinos, grow by more than 24 percent in the last five years. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of Latinos in Rhode Island quadrupled, jumping to about 9 percent of the state's population. Among the host of business issues that have grown out of this historic immigration are language barriers, documentation problems and questions of skill transfer between countries. (Rhode Island News)

Signs of the Times — Inside Helena's labor crunch
By most accounts, Taco Del Sol is one of the most popular restaurants downtown, with a noontime line often stretching up the steps and onto the Walking Mall, as customers await their fish tacos and mission burritos. Yet owner Shalon Hastings said that more than once this fall, she's come close to not opening the restaurant for lunch. The reason? Not enough staff to run the business. Hastings enjoys "working the line," making tacos and burritos, but she'd rather not do it as frequently as she's forced to these days. Eighty percent of her time, she said, is devoted to workforce issues — time she feels could be better spent improving her own business or opening a second location. (Independent Record)

Heavy on degrees, short on sweat
Perhaps the most consistent trend within the U.S. labor force is the continually rising level of educated, skilled workers. The Census Bureau released its Current Population Survey last week, and the numbers show that Americans have received more education than ever before. Of course, it's easy to question the quality of the education they've received. But in terms of years spent in classrooms, the nation never has been so well-schooled. (Palm Beach Post)

Labor shortage could lead restaurants to short-order robot cooks
George Jetson would feel at home. Today, there's enough restaurant equipment on the market or awaiting patent to take a customer's order and payment and cook and package the food — all with little or no human labor. No one's predicting that robot maid Rosie will grill burgers outside of Orbit City anytime soon. Still, as the restaurant industry scrambles to cope with a labor crunch, many players are looking to automation. (STLToday)

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