The Connecticut Department of Transportation says there are over 600 job openings within the department, and as winter approaches, those labor shortages are.
snow fell across the puget sound. rising floodwaters closed a 20-mile stretch of a major interstate, and there were at least 21 water rescues. the storm in the east came just as several states were experiencing a critical shortage of snow plow drivers. has the snow plow industry faced something like this before? i don t think so. reporter: massachusetts contractor bill french says rising costs, and a labor shortage worsened by covid have made his work challenging. covid has, obviously, affected everybody. even if you have the equipment ready there is the ambiguity of who will be able to work and who isn t. it s kind of a perfect storm. reporter: a rapid cleanup is critical here because a band of cold air, frigid air is expected to move into this area turning those wet and slushy roads into ice overnight with cold temperatures expected to last into tomorrow and possibly early sunday, norah. o donnell: that ice is scary. all right, nancy chen, thank you. well, now to the fight
cheese have been harder to come by. but in some places, we may have reason to hope there are shortages, as in a shortage of snow. why? not enough snow plow drivers. and few are lining up for the jobs. we are not sure why we are not getting people that we used to, and why we are not getting the drivers that want to do it. reporter: economists blame employee shortages from cooks to wait staffs to housekeeping at hotels on the so-called great resignation of 2021. americans foregoing low paying jobs are finding better positions as well as older americans reassessing what s important to them and retiring early. it hit all segments of society. retiring police, leaving some cities like washington, d.c. with officers still on the job exhausted. sometimes their days off are canceled. sometimes they are working weeks at a time without a day off. this is approaching catastrophic levels. reporter: as hospitals, no
You know who doesn't comfortably veg out cuddled up in blankets with junk food watching 80's movies? Cheers to our snow plow drivers. The more I think about it, it may be very cool to try being a snow plow driver just once, and here's why.
It’s a job many may take for granted, but not Chelmsford Town Manager Paul Cohen. He says he needs snow plow workers immediately. “This is a problem that.