Dive Summary
- With the residential housing market on the mend, California home builders are now reporting spot shortages of skilled labor.
- California construction employment fell 42% from it's 2006 peek of 945,100 workers but has been adding back jobs recently.
- Lower salaries, tougher immigration laws, and the extended housing depression are all blamed for the shortage.
From the article:
"The problem, frankly, was those skilled workers — and that whole labor pool — was not able to remain unemployed for five years," said Mike Winn, chief executive of the California Builders Assn.
