Presidential Perspective by Dave Kazmierczak CGCS, Superintendent at Prestwick Golf Club them out of the water. It is So, how is your becoming increasingly difficult staff shaping up to compete with the burger joint this season? down the street that is offering The weather four to five dollars more an hour. has once again If you are relying on college and given us an high school kids, the pickings extraordinary opportunity to grow grass earlier are becoming slimmer. If you than ever imagined in 2016. Golf are relying on Hispanic labor the process of attraction and retention courses have opened en mass is becoming more difficult, and across the southern two-thirds if Trump builds his wall possibly of Minnesota and Wisconsin last downright impossible! week, and by the looks of things the grass will need cutting more But the real problem for sooner than later, maybe even turf mangers is not entry level in the month of March if this positions. Increasingly, it is continues. The next question is, will you have anybody to mow it? becoming very hard to find entry level managers: Spray Labor is becoming a difficult Techs, Foremen and Assistant Superintendents. A quick glance proposition in our industry both at the MGCSA job board will locally and nationally. The ever tell you there are a lot of good increasing minimum wage is jobs available with a very limited pushing budgets to the brink, supply of good candidates. I would and the revenue to cover the increases hard to come by. Other concur, as in the past five years alone I have had a very hard time industries are matching our filling these positions personally. salaries or downright blowing
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