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Manufacturing Jobs Available - 2 Companies of CBS 60 Minutes Segment This Evening 11/11/2012
CBS 60 Minutes - Alcoa Howmet - Click-Bond | November 11, 2012 | none

Posted on 11/11/2012 6:16:55 PM PST by First_Salute

The CBS 60 Minutes segment, "Three million open jobs in U.S., but who's qualified?"


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Alcoa Howmet Division of Alcoa Power and Propulsion is on the western shoreline of the state of Michigan (east shore of Lake Michigan) north of Holland.

Click-Bond is in Carson City, Nevada at the airport.

1 posted on 11/11/2012 6:17:03 PM PST by First_Salute
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To: First_Salute

Blacks, Hispanics, sex deviates, and minorities only need apply.


2 posted on 11/11/2012 6:18:33 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: cripplecreek

bttt


3 posted on 11/11/2012 6:22:28 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: traditional1
Blacks, Hispanics, sex deviates, and minorities only need apply.

Nonsense anyone with an H-1B can get hired.

4 posted on 11/11/2012 6:26:39 PM PST by null and void (The One can steal an election, but no one can steal our country.)
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To: First_Salute

Are they trying to tell us that the tens of millions of illegal invaders aren’t qualified? Then why the hell are we allowing them to enter and remain?


5 posted on 11/11/2012 6:33:28 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (USA!)
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To: Alaska Wolf

I guess this is an indictment of our public education system.

Waiting for them to say that in 3,2,1.......


6 posted on 11/11/2012 6:36:08 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Media goes nuts in 2004 because Bush went to the dentist 20 years ago. Benghazi? Nothing.)
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To: traditional1
Unfortunately, there is "Obama To Unleash Racial-Preferences Juggernaut" along the lines of what you wrote.

Yet, the purpose of the post, is to help FRPR's looking for work in Michigan and Nevada.

7 posted on 11/11/2012 6:38:55 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: First_Salute
how many can't pass the drug screen???
8 posted on 11/11/2012 6:39:06 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: traditional1
This is what I thought too but mostly Black people sorry to say it but that is who Obama wants working.

Doesn't matter what your qualification might be if you are not a chosen one you are SOL

9 posted on 11/11/2012 6:47:16 PM PST by funfan
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To: First_Salute

Half of the staff at CBS could get hired as janitors.


10 posted on 11/11/2012 6:53:06 PM PST by Mark (For the first time in my life, I'm no longer proud of my country.)
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To: First_Salute
This week I'm breaking in an Indian and a Russian that will probably replace my contract IT job.

I've have plenty of options with over 20 years experience in my specialty but I shudder for younger Americans who are not as qualified.

11 posted on 11/11/2012 6:53:46 PM PST by AU72
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To: First_Salute
Say what you will about 60 Minutes but I found the report to be informative within the segment's time allowance. I work in this area as a manufacturing consultant and have connections with a training organization similar to the one in the report. Just as in Nevada, it is also helping adult students get the needed skills for operating CNC machines.

Unfortunately, the reporter missed an opportunity to inquire with the ALCOA president, who is from Germany, about the differences between the education systems in the two countries in areas such as technical skill preparation and internships with industry.

12 posted on 11/11/2012 6:54:00 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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"Black people sorry to say it but that is who Obama wants working."

Yeah; I'd like to see black people "working", too.....rather than 4th generation inner-city tribal parasitic tribes that haven't EVER held a job, and live off other people's earnings, using their Obamaphones for crack deals.....

13 posted on 11/11/2012 6:55:40 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: First_Salute

If employers can’t get skilled people for their jobs, they’re not paying enough. That’s how it works. Offer jobs for say, welders, at $15 an hour and you’ll be whining about there not being qualified applicants. Offer jobs for $30 an hour and they’ll be lined up around the block. Welders earning $25 an hour will quit and come work for you.


14 posted on 11/11/2012 7:05:39 PM PST by bigbob
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“If employers can’t get skilled people for their jobs, they’re not paying enough.”

That’s exactly the cause in the case of CNC operators.
For decades, companies tried to “dumb down” manufacturing positions so that anyone off the street could push the buttons. Now they are wanting CNC programmers for $10 and hour and wanting the government to pay for their training.
On the other edge of the scale, there are “union” button pushers making $40 and hour that really don’t have any skills other than button pushing.


15 posted on 11/11/2012 7:13:46 PM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: First_Salute

$12 bucks an hour! That ought to bring in the top talent.


16 posted on 11/11/2012 7:22:13 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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The 2 companies' representatives in the CBS 60 Minutes segment, were not willing to correctly point to the cost of government as a burden and cost of doing business; and CBS cites in general the classical "free trade" blockheads' repetitive "a lack of skills" in applicants ... complaint.

That's the usual excuse --- "corporate America" keeps insisting that skilled workers continue to work for lower and lower pay in order to compensate for the cost of doing business under more and more socialism, which "corporate America" does not have the guts to resist.

"The suits" want skilled workers to provide meritorious service 24/7; but, when that skill level is not compensated by pay and worthy company leadership, it gets harder for companies "to find good employees."

Good leaders would observe the error of their ways and resist the increased burdens imposed by government; but we continue to lose good business leaders, for whom skilled workers will produce well.

The "$12/hr" stated by the Click-Bond rep. is competitive for many un-skilled workers, but not for skilled workers, and he has himself to blame.

BTW, he was protesting a lack of grammar skills in applicants, but he should take the time to look at his own website - the jobs page is "poorly executed" with several blank-double-space gaps between words, missing commas, and missing periods at the end of sentences.

Also, there is no need for the stilted resume jargon found in the company's jobs descriptions --- that appeals to bureaucrats, not to people whose eyes are on the objective of getting good work completed.

17 posted on 11/11/2012 7:23:47 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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"Three million open jobs in U.S., but who's qualified?"

Sexually confused sociopaths, manhaters, environmentalists and the like.


18 posted on 11/11/2012 7:24:33 PM PST by familyop
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To: T-Bird45

I mostly saw the CBS segment as a chance for employment, for some members of Free Republica who are out of work. Also, it may stimulate some to get the skills about which you write; tx.


19 posted on 11/11/2012 7:26:20 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: bigbob

bttt


20 posted on 11/11/2012 7:30:28 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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