Posted on 11/25/2016 5:05:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The victory of Republican presidential bet, Donald Trump, in the recent presidential elections comes with the soon fulfillment of his promise to resurrect the withered manufacturing sector. Prior to 1980s, the sector is bustling with eight-hour-a-day workers striving with a profitable yet laborious job while possessing only a high school diploma.
But now, times have changed and so are the industry's demands. Unlike in the '80s, most manufacturing jobs now require a higher degree of education. While Donald Trump's aim to revive the industry is a shot to the moon, it can be achieved through apprenticeship programs, which will help workers earn in-demand skills.
Jeffrey Selingo wrote in a Washington Post piece that globalization and advancement of technology make Donald Trump's pre-election promise hard to achieve. Manufacturing houses now require only fewer people to do the production. Machines, if any, now necessitate high-tech skills that some are only able to get a post-high school education.
Citing a mobile technology company as an example, Siemens was said to have a hard time sifting through thousands of applicants for a manufacturing post. Apparently, the applicants, mostly high school graduates, lack the skills fit for the job....
(Excerpt) Read more at parentherald.com ...
I didn’t read the full article yet but this sounds like what I’ve been saying, people need to get creative about new or different ways to do things than before to get the young and the older unemployed back to work.
The left in this country will be in devastated shocked that the “workers” of any color have rally to Trump as their hero and have totally turned on the left
Reagan broke the wall but Trump will destroy Karl Marx theory's for the workers
I know a lot of people who have gone through college and now have jobs they do not like, that do not pay well, and which are dead ends.
Our culture says “Go to college or else be a loser.”
We need to convince people that many other career paths are perfectly respectable. Making apprenticeships socially acceptable would be a wonderful thing. A lot of people would be happier, and human labor would be expended in more useful directions than mere paper-shuffling in a cubicle.
The southern states have been using community colleges
BMW built a plant and told the state what they needed
The state used the community college to train the workers the state and BMW could not find in the general population of the area
I worked construction in Denver
The Mexicans were sending there sons to be plumbers,electricans and other high paying trades
Employers could do more to enable employees to advance their skill levels but management teams don’t want to have to face additional internal competition if they don’t have to.
Both new high school graduates, and long-term unemployed workers (whether from the manufacturing sector or not) will need new skill training to enter the 2017 manufacturing workforce.
And the US private sector and technological universities will need to develop new advanced manufacturing technologies. Manufacturing is not what it was in the 1960s or 1970s.
The return of jobs (and corporate cash) to the US from overseas, plus this additional training and research and development, will be a shot in the arm to the US economy and to the American workforce. If we can pull it off, it will dwarf the achievements of the Reagan era.
It will also show up the Dims, the clintonites, and the GOPe for the scurvy rats they are, and they will have a difficult time getting elected for decades to come!!!!
Mike Rowe would be a good ambassador for this.
You didn’t get the memo. They only pick fruit, do lawn work, and clean hotel rooms. /s/
I doubt Shitavious wants to put down the blunt and learn how to use a Bridgeport.
None of this is new. The company I used to work for had a training program for 20 years. They would pay higher than minimum wage to train people. This wasn’t apprenticeship either. It was a couple of months of classroom and practical training for welders and ship fitters. At the peak of the shipbuilding and repair boom you could not find enough skilled employees. The company, unfortunately, went bankrupt.
Here are some details on Mike Rowe and This Old House on PBS partnering to create funding for trades education:
http://mikerowe.com/2016/11/a-big-thanks-to-those-in-the-house/
GE in the 1950’s and 1960’s had training programs and paid workers to take college courses
even then they could not get the college students they wanted
Yep.
That’s a system with proven success.
No fed money, no union dues.
Formal Apprenticeship in manufacturing, farming and the trades would benefit a LOT of kids not suitable for, nor desirous of College.
Especially if kids can opt in at 16.
Illegals must be removed from the workplace for apprentice programs to work.
Apprenticeships are dead in the US. They’ve been replaced by companies conning state governments into footing the bill to train their workforce through highly specific community college courses.
Companies want a highly skilled workforce, they just don’t want to pay for them.
As it is, the company that I work for is having a very hard time hiring electricians for our location. We have been trying to get them to let us take on apprentices, but they absolutely refuse to. Our electrician roster is down 40% since I hired on a few years ago, and retirements are whittling that number down even further.
On any given day, 600,000 advanced manufacturing jobs go unfilled in the U.S. The problem? A lack of workers with the right job skills. Parents have discouraged students from working in “dirty” factories, and many of the young people who are interested don’t have the required education and training.
Consider Mechatronics, the advanced manufacturing curriculum developed by Siemens, the German industrial/engineering conglomerate. A student can earn their entry-level certification in Mechatronics in only 6-9 months. Staring pay is around $45K a year, more with overtime, and full benefits. With second-level certification, pay increases to around $60K a year, and those jobs are difficult to outsource.
As Mike Rowe has observed, we need more people who can fix stuff and make things. Too many kids with worthless college degrees would be much better off in advanced manufacturing or the skilled trades. Incidentally, the average age of American workers who “make stuff” in approaching 60, and firms can’t find younger candidates with the right skills and training.
NOT with a $15 minimum wage. And NOT with all the ridiculous labor rules. I would take on apprentices in my machine shop but I can’t afford to pay someone a high wage to train them and the reduction in productivity from the experienced machinists who will have to train them.
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