With all due respect to the local work force available, they simply do not want to come to work in a manufacturing facility to earn a living. We have tried day after day, week after week. For example, I shared the last five years of our attrition and retention data, and we lost 70% of our hires. We hire 10 people, and six or seven will leave after five to seven days, and we're back to square one.
There's a cost, if you hire, train, and retain these people, and now you're spending $500 to $600 over and above that. Every five to six days you're spending the same amount of money in a moving cycle, and you're losing $60,000 to $80,000 within months to hire more people.