it's not exactly a pay issue. it's a labor supply and competency issue. a company needs to be willing to hire a person to learn, not to produce - that mentality is not going to change until the people making the decisions change and/or a number of companies go completely bust. as useful as schools are, there is no school you can go to which teaches you how to do the jobs actually needed in the economy. the fact the front office does not even know what all jobs they actually need done out on the floor is not really a help, either. the reason i left the factory? i own a business on the side and the company was going to 7 days a week scheduling. i could not do that as i had business obligations of my own. companies are willing to pay double overtime to people because the costs of bringing on more people, by time government-mandated insurance benefits, taxes, and other things are considered - it's cheaper to work a small population 7 days a week at 10-12 hours than it is to work a larger population 5 days a week for 8 hours. contrast this with the service industry, where managers get fired for letting an employee get overtime.
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