Closing the Skills Gap with Plant Tours, Pep Talks and Child Care

摘要

Julie Mockbee lost her job as a production planner at Johnson Controls at age 51, when the company closed her plant and moved to Mexico. Freshly unemployed after a 20-year tenure there, she immediately started looking for new work in manufacturing, a field that had been good to her all those years. "I didn't want a job that I had to take home with me," says the Kentucky grandmother. "I wanted to go in, get my eight hours in, get paid decent money and go home."