I had an interview at Bath Ship Works in Maine and the pay for what they expected was laughable. If ship builders won’t pay enough to afford to live near where ships are built (the ocean) they won’t be getting skilled labor.
Not hard to solve; keep up deportations and ending of visas, the American worker becomes again seen as valuable, and with good pay comes good work.
Today I wouldn’t be surprised if you told me along with shoddy pay shipyards are hiring illegals or import visa slobs.
Exactly.
I see more and more online ads for welding training and suspect it has a lot to do with shipbuilding and infrastructure industries crying because they don’t have enough talent available.