"Everyone's loaded, all the time!"
By Tim
Pearce: The manufacturing industry in Ohio is expanding under the
Trump administration, but growth is stunted because many potential employees
are also addicted to drugs.
Steve Staub, who runs Staub Manufacturing
Solutions in Ohio, attended the State of the Union address Tuesday as a special
guest to President Donald Trump. While there, aside from participating in the
pageantry, Staub discussed problems in the manufacturing industry and business
in general with the president.
Staub mentioned to Trump the
toll the opioid crisis has had on business’ ability to fill jobs. About two
million Americans nationwide are addicted
to the drug. The crisis has been particularly hard on Staub’s home state of
Ohio, were thousands of job applicants are turned away because of substance
abuse.
“In Ohio alone, they have about 20,000
available jobs in manufacturing. In Dayton, Ohio, where I’m from, we have about
4,000 jobs available today in manufacturing that we can’t fill,” Staub told
TheDCNF.
“We can’t get people to pass a drug test.”