A manufacturing hiring boom in West Virginia |
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2008-09-18 As is usually the case, there are bright spots even when the overall national labor market stumbles. Today we're bringing a hiring boom in West Virginia to your attention. The West Virginia Manufacturers Association held a job fair in the Charleston Civic Center yesterday in a bid to find workers able to do skilled manufacturing work. Reports the Charleston Daily Mail:
The manufacturers are hiring because of a boom in the energy sector, a shortage of skilled labor and an anticipated increase in retirements. West Virginia's unemployment rate in August was 3.9 percent, down from 4.2 percent in July. The nation's jobless rate last month was 6.1 percent.
There are plenty of minimum wage jobs that offer no benefits in West Virginia, but the positions the WVMA members are looking to fill are quite a bit different, and starting pay for many of the jobs is a reported $20 an hour for millwrights and electricians.
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