Quoted in Baltimore Business Journal
‘We just don’t have the people’: Why Maryland’s manufacturers are turning down work
Aug 18, 2022, 6:47am EDT
Hiring for manufacturing jobs might be almost as tricky as dating.
Just ask Phil Tulkoff. Job applicants for hisBaltimore and Ohio horseradish and condiment factories “ghost” him regularly. Others fill out paperwork and then just disappear.
“We have more stuff in the pipeline than we can handle,” said Tulkoff, president of Tulkoff Foods Inc.”Getting enough people and the right people is definitely holding things back. You will be lucky if one shows up.”