Op-ed: Businesses must do their part to solve Utah's skilled labor shortage

Any professional association will tell you access to talent is the biggest challenge facing Utah’s industrial businesses. But our current skilled labor shortage is not a temporary phenomenon. It's a product of a gradual breakdown in the mutual commitment between industrial employers and blue-collar employees. Luckily, the very Utah businesses most affected by the skilled labor shortage hold the power to solve it.Long gone is the era of an employee accepting a career-long position with a si