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
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.
Mike Rowe would be a good ambassador for this.
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.
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.
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 They’ve been replaced by companies conning state governments into footing the bill to train their workforce through highly specific community college courses.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.