Manufacturing has its share of peaks and valleys, but business continues to boom. “We’ve been jammed. We’ve been busy. We haven’t stopped,” Cindy Stumpo, founder of a custom building company, told Yahoo Finance. “I’m not seeing a slowdown.” However, her company has had difficulty finding skilled workers. “We don’t have enough good labor force, nor females, nor males.” The skilled trades gap has been problematic for years, and Nick Rivers with Obsidian Manufacturing, a precision manufacturer, led a buzzing brainstorming session for this week’s #USAMfgHour on Twitter.
