Just a few miles from where President Trump will address his blue-collar base here Tuesday night, exactly the kind of middle-class factory jobs he has vowed to bring back from overseas are going begging.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not that local workers lack the skills for these positions, many of which do not even require a high school diploma but pay $15 to $25 an hour and offer full benefits. Rather, the problem is that too many applicants \u2014 nearly half, in some cases \u2014 fail a drug test.<\/p>\n
The fallout is not limited to the workers or their immediate families. Each quarter, Columbiana Boiler, a local company, forgoes roughly $200,000 worth of orders for its galvanized containers and kettles because of the manpower shortage, it says, with foreign rivals picking up the slack.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur main competitor in Germany can get things done more quickly because they have a better labor pool,\u201d said Michael J. Sherwin, chief executive of the 123-year-old manufacturer. \u201cWe are always looking for people and have standard ads at all times, but at least 25 percent fail the drug tests.\u201d<\/p>\n
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