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'It's not like we don't have enough jobs here in Wisconsin': Ron Johnson won't try to land Oshkosh Corp. postal vehicle work
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'It's not like we don't have enough jobs here in Wisconsin': Ron Johnson won't try to land Oshkosh...
Sen. Ron Johnson said he will not persuade Oshkosh Corp to place over 1,000 new manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.
11:32 AM · Feb 6, 2022
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/02/06/sen-ron-johnson-wont-try-get-oshkosh-corp-jobs-wisconsin/6683226001/
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Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Saturday he won't try to persuade a Wisconsin manufacturer to place more than 1,000 new jobs in his hometown.
"It's not like we don't have enough jobs here in Wisconsin. The biggest problem we have in Wisconsin right now is employers not being able to find enough workers," Johnson said about Oshkosh Corp.'s plans to locate the jobs in South Carolina.
Johnson, who is seeking a third term this fall, said he supports having more manufacturing jobs in the state but indicated the company is best suited to make the call on where to build vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service.
"I wouldn't insert myself to demand that anything be manufactured here using federal funds in Wisconsin," Johnson told reporters after appearing at a "Parent Empowerment Rally" in Washington County. "Obviously, I'm supportive of it. But in the end, I think when using federal tax dollars, you want to spend those in the most efficient way and if it's more efficient, more effective to spend those in other states, I don't have a real problem with that."
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LakeArenal
(28,720 posts)What a complete antithetical stance for a State elected person.
KPN
(15,587 posts)fascism got it Ron.
Walleye
(30,704 posts)How does somebody get elected with this platform? Does he think this will help employers grab some more people at slave wages?
Emile
(21,892 posts)Offering 1,000 new high paying jobs will make it even harder to find cheap labor!
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)RoJo bragging about the Biden economy with high employment.
Poiuyt
(18,087 posts)NickB79
(19,111 posts)We have a serious worker shortage (I'm just across the border in Minnesota).
Every factory is struggling to find workers, even ones paying $28/hr like mine. We just keep poaching workers from each other, offering sign up bonuses.
Realistically, we need immigrants. There's no other way to fix our labor shortage.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)GOP just spent SIX YEARS demonizing immigrants, doubt they change their tune now.
NickB79
(19,111 posts)I've spent the past YEAR pointing this out to every Trump-supporting coworker who bitches about all the OT we have to put in to cover all the empty shifts.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)VP of Nat. Restaurant Assoc. said recently we need at least 650,000 workers just in that slice of the economy.
Ohio Joe
(21,655 posts)That is my guess.