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  • Immigrants key to facing labor shortage
    November 28, 2006
    The construction industry faces a serious labor shortage requiring 1 million new workers in the next six years and 2.4 million by 2014, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many glass company managers said they look to a growing contingent of immigrant workers to combat the scarcity...

  • Companies look to language learning to serve growing immigrant workforce
    November 21, 2006
    The 2000 U.S. Census found immigrant workers constituted 12.4 percent of the nation’s workforce. New immigrant workers increased by 4.134 million during the next five years, accounting for 86 percent of the total increase in employment, according to a study from Northeastern University released in August...

  • Education key to reversing labor shortage
    October 17, 2006
    Link to Part One and Part Two of the labor series.Managers for Harmon Inc. out of Eden Prairie, Minn., often look to colleges and universities when finding new additions to its project teams, says Steve Griest, general manager at the glazier’s Chicago office...

  • Employee Retention
    How to attract and keep good employees
    April 1, 2006
    Good help is hard to find, and as a result, your role as an employer has changed. As a “boss,” it’s not enough to throw out a few orders and sign checks. Instead, you must create a work environment and culture that new employees will latch onto and value. Rarely are you going to find good help; you must create good help. In an issue of the Harvard Business Journal last year, one...
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    In an effort to spotlight the people who make the Glass Magazine Award-winning products and projects possible, this year’s program included people-centric categories, for which the industry submitted their picks for best installer, production supervisor, project manager and sales rep.After narrowing down the nominations to three finalists in each category, the Glass Magazine editors asked the...