Sounds like they might actually finally have to pay a decent wage for welders.
This is one reason why real wages for lower middle class workers in America are rising for the first time in decades. A shortage of $8/hr illegal welders=opportunity for $25/hr American workers.
Its quite obvious why the neverTrump cheap labor express (Koch brothers, Chamber of Commerce, etc.) have sold their “conservative” souls to stop MAGA.
I’m very interested in knowing where Lindsey Graham stands on this.
where I live, I think every welder who is independent in this area has at one time or another trained and worked at Newport News Shipbuilding. They are very well trained, tested, and put to work building within very high standards required for ships of the line, some submarines, and other large vessels that live a very vigorous life while in service.
These are welders, these are not hacks with a blowtorch or an arc welder who tack a few pieces of metal together and call it quality. The welders which are talked about in the article probably have really never been trained properly and are just a cheap form of Labor that can sort of weld...
To call them welders is an insult to every real welder out there who actually knows what they’re doing and have worked in areas of Defense and building structures, with a variety of metals and types of welds , that must be done professionally and proficiently, and must be tested, inspected, dyed, x-rayed, and stress tested to meet the high standard that will not endanger crew or equipment.