There is a huge dilemma facing businesses involved in plumbing and drain cleaning and other skilled trades areas — there are more job openings than there are people to fill them. With many workers in skilled trades nearing retirement age and increasingly fewer graduating high schoolers showing an interest in skilled trades jobs, a main source of the problem is clear.
That’s why in 2019, City Machine Technologies of Youngstown, Ohio, decided to establish National Skilled Trades Day — observed on the first Wednesday in May — to celebrate skilled trades workers and increase awareness about the benefits of such jobs.To mark 2021’s National
Promoting the Benefits of a Skilled Trades Career
National Skilled Trades Day is an opportunity to increase awareness about the labor shortage that industries like plumbing and drain cleaning continue to contend with
