Walmart y otras empresas de EEUU buscan enfrentar escasez de trabajadores calificados – Chicago Tribune
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, USA. (AP) — To reduce the number of skilled workers in the United States, Walmart is seeking to provide help maintaining moving carrier bags, cold food refrigerators and functional foods and products.
The nation’s minor mayor and private employer renovated its capacity program last year to increase technical maintenance flows that do everything from repairing equipment to performing electrical work in distribution centers and Walmart days, employees who have seen the set of each time more It is difficult to save time due to a decrease in the available workforce.
It opened up opportunities for people like Liz Cardenas, 24, who came to Walmart in May 2023 as an automation equipment operator at a distribution center in Lancaster, Texas, ensuring cases are sold well and passed through a conveyor belt in an upright position. We are currently responsible for repairing conveyor belts and other equipment when released to distribution centers.
Cardenas, who in case of duplication of his salary for an hour to 43.50 dollars, said that he had capacity, which meant a higher salary and a responsibility of mayor. It also means financial freedom.
“Pude mudarme de la casa de mis padres,” he said. “I have my own apartment. I can buy a car and I can carry it more than my gloating plan.”
An increase in revelry, coupled with a deceleration in immigration that occurred during the pandemic but is accelerating now with President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, is one of the main factors holding back labor from taking on some employers, analysts say.
But in qualified offices, the problem is even more serious. Consulting firm McKinsey analyzed 12 types of office categories, including maintenance technicians, soldiers and carpenters, and came up with an estimated imbalance of 20 vacancies for every new employee from 2022 to 2032.
McKinsey reported that the “extraordinary task of turnover” could cost companies more than $5,300 million each year in talent acquisition and capacity costs.
The case occurs in some companies without employees at average operational costs, caused by the new aranceles, changing consumer waste and increasing artificial intelligence waste.
Business Roundtable, an advocacy group of executive directors from about 150 companies that represent millions of employees nationwide, launched a new initiative in June to address the careers of skilled office workers, including maintenance technicians. The initiative, coordinated by high quality home miner Lowe’s, involves working with primary, secondary and preparatory schools to raise awareness.
“Even as technology continues to evolve, you cannot replace plumbers, electricians, construction workers, maintenance and repair professionals, or other skilled tradespeople,” said Marvin Ellison, president and executive director of Lowe’s.
For its part, Lowe’s launched a 90-day online training program in 2022 for employees who want to do jobs such as carpentry and utility maintenance. Additionally, Your Profit Collection has invested $43 million since 2023 in 60 organizations, such as technical universities and non-profit groups, to help recruit and strengthen skilled workers as maintenance and plumbing technicians.
Mervin Jebaraj, of the Walton School of Business Administration at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, reported that these programs are helping to save lives, but not eliminating the deficit, particularly because of Trump’s stamina on immigration.
“Mientras someone needs to physically fix this, the leak will persist, even in the margins, it will take a part,” he affirmed. “Not enough people”.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon recently told The Associated Press that, in his opinion, part of the reason for the leak is the “question of conscience.”
“I believe that most of the big quizás don’t know that they have a technique that helps keep our outfits and clubs and that we can help you learn to be a technique,” he said. “Also we need to spread the message so that sepa people who have some great works.”
Walmart has revamped its capacity program for spring 2024, focusing on its own workers with a permit-free capacity initiative in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This year, new capacity sites were added in Vincennes, Indiana and Jacksonville, Florida. The initiative combines hands-on instruction and in-room learning such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical work and general maintenance.
Since November, 400 employees have graduated from the program and informed the company. With its first crop of 108 associates completing the Dallas/Fort Worth pilot program, each graduate earned a tech center, earning them a price of $32 per hour. Walmart said its goal is to be able to recruit 4,000 workers under the training program for 2030.
RJ Zanes, vice president of installation services for the U.S. divisions of Walmart and Sam’s Club, said Walmart can recruit workers from across the country with different backgrounds, including employees who operate cajas registradoras.
The roles of maintenance technicians are crucial to keeping Walmart’s operations running smoothly, but especially during temporary navigation. For example, if a refrigeration system falls at a Walmart store, it could cost $300,000 to $400,000 in lost products, according to Zanes.
“We can’t wait to do it,” he said. “We need to ensure we have adequate capabilities to perform preventative maintenance, and when we have an average, make sure we adjust as quickly as possible to minimize that cost of downtime.”
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
