article_snippet.sent: The firm's manufacturing manager Steve Dalton confirmed that The firm needed to look to Eastern Europe to fill a skills gap and on occasion had flown potential employees from Poland.
article_snippet.sent: One of the big problems that we've got in engineering is a real shortage of young people studying engineering to go into trades such as this, which is regrettable. '
article_snippet.sent: we've got rid of technical colleges and encouraged more and more young people to go to university and study degrees which are not directly linked to industry such as this. '
article_snippet.sent: If there's no British person trained to do that job, then that says more about we than them.'
article_snippet.sent: The firm's manufacturing manager Steve Dalton said The firm's manufacturing manager Steve Dalton was not a Ukip supporter but did not oppose the party's proposal of an Australian-style points system designed to limit the number of immigrants.
article_snippet.sent: The firm's manufacturing manager Steve Dalton said: 'There needs to be some controls but presumably, if we needed to fill a skills gap, we would still be able to do that under such a system.'
article_snippet.sent: The company employs 130 people, six of whom are migrants from Eastern Europe.
article_snippet.sent: Finance director Gillian Hagger said: 'A lot of industries in the UK do need migrant workers. '
article_snippet.sent: The area we're in means we've got a large pool to recruit from but sometimes we find a large pool to recruit skills are limited. '
article_snippet.sent: On those occasions we have had to look further afield, including flying interviewees in from Poland.'