{"id":109261,"date":"2019-10-01T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109261"},"modified":"2019-10-01T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:27:59","slug":"stirpe-too-many-good-jobs-in-cny-go-unfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109261","title":{"rendered":"Stirpe: Too many good jobs in CNY go unfilled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Assemblyman Al Stirpe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ten years ago, the biggest problem in Central New York was\nlack of jobs. Today, it might well be the shortage of qualified employees. As\nchair of the Assembly Committee on Small Business, I speak to manufacturers and\nother local companies often. The greatest challenge they face is finding good\ncandidates to fill vacant positions. Right now, in our area, there are hundreds\nof open positions, including jobs for welders, machinists, assemblers and\nengineers of all types. Left unaddressed, this problem will only get worse in\nthe years ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several things we can do to help address this\nchallenge right here in Central New York. The first involves training. In\nrecent years, I\u2019ve been working with Onondaga Community College, SUNY Educational\nOpportunity Center and other organizations to offer training programs that\nprepare job seekers for open positions in manufacturing. Through a machinist\ntraining program and a manufactures boot camp, more than a hundred local residents\nhave gained the skills needed to find good-paying employment. Other efforts,\nincluding the Work Train program at CenterState CEO and the apprenticeship\nprogram run by the Manufacturers Association of Central New York, are helping\nto match potential employees with openings in fields like health care and\nmanufacturing. Similarly, OCM BOCES offers adult education programs that can\nplace candidates in these same industries and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second thing we can do is make it easier for workers to\nget to where the jobs are. One major problem with our pattern of growth over\nthe last several decades is that many large employers, which used to be\nprimarily in the City of Syracuse, are now in the suburbs \u2013 far away from the\npopulation center that could serve as a workforce. Because of that, suburban\nmanufacturers often have trouble filling openings simply because workers don\u2019t\nhave access to public transportation to get them there. I\u2019ve been working with\nCENTRO in recent months to add routes that will make it easier to get from\nSyracuse to places like Hancock Business Park in Cicero. As a community, we\nalso need to encourage more businesses to establish a permanent presence closer\nto the urban core \u2013 which could also help address unemployment and poverty\nissues in our region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, we need to find ways to support young people who want\nto pursue a career in the trades and as engineers. These are the jobs that\noften go unfilled in our area and yet also offer the best prospects for\nlong-term growth. Supporting these career paths means everything from enabling\nmore hands-on learning at the elementary school level, using maker spaces and\nother programs, to eliminating the stigma that exists with getting a technical\ndegree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, we should let our kids know that they don\u2019t need to\nmove out of Central New York to get a good job. This notion is simply not true\nanymore. There are so many open jobs and possible careers in our area that\nanyone who wants to live and work here and who is willing to get the right\ntraining, should be able to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, my door is open. If you have questions about this\nor any other issue, feel free to contact me at 315.452.1115 or at\nStirpeA@nyassembly.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago, the biggest problem in Central New York was lack of jobs. Today, it might well be the shortage of qualified employees. As chair of the Assembly Committee on Small Business, I speak to manufacturers and other local companies often. The greatest challenge they face is finding good candidates to fill vacant positions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23677,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe.jpg?fit=226%2C222&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-sqh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}