Let’s Attract Young Workers To Aerospace
By Allen Samuel
05/04/09
While the daily newscasts continue with doom-and-gloom accounts of our nation’s economy, the Connecticut businesses supporting the aerospace industry supply chain remain vital and in fact, busy!
Connecticut’s small to mid-size suppliers serve the broad global aerospace industry making parts for all the larger aerospace companies like Sikorsky, Pratt & Whitney , General Electric and Rolls-Royce. The 60 companies that are members of the state’s aerospace “cluster,” Aerospace Components Manufacturers Inc. (ACM), now employ about 5,500 people and have annual sales of more than $1.4 billion.
Yes, it is true that many of Connecticut’s unskilled jobs have been outsourced overseas, but skilled workers remain in high demand at our local firms and will remain so for the foreseeable future. But our aerospace work force is aging. We face a “silver tsunami” with so many of our older and most skilled workers nearing retirement.
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