Manufacturers Struggle to Fill the Jobs They Have Open

Amidst all the talk about offshoring of manufacturing job, here is an article about how Albany NY manufacturers cannot find workers for the open jobs they have.

Frank Falatyn, president and chief executive of Fala Technologies Inc. in Kingston, N.Y., has found willing new customers for his microchip-handling products in International Sematech and Tokyo Electron Ltd.
That's good.

What isn't good, though, is the trouble he has finding skilled machinists and toolmakers to produce the miniature clean rooms and hand-operated machines that take the lids off chip-wafer boxes.

"It's going to be very difficult for me to grow the business," Falatyn said.

While educators and other officials encourage students to concentrate on semiconductor plants and biotechnology and all things nano, the blue-collar jobs found at old-line manufacturers such as Fala get the cold shoulder and are getting harder to fill.

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