[Beagle8U]

"You have always been able to tell the "hard hats" at Manhatten construction projects from the "cash" workers. Although the number of construction projects in Manhatten seems to have exploded, it is definately more of the "cash" workers you see, while middle class cityizen, union suburban skilled tradesmen are having a harder time staying in the trades.

It is greed, not a lack of willing workers."


Please, in all your wisdom, explain how someone that can't read or write is displacing any skilled worker ?

[Wuli]

Who can't read or write? And who needs to read or write for what particular task? Many a worker on a construction project has no need to read anything, other than a ruler, occasionally, which is the same in Spanish, Chinese or English and many do not need to read anything at all. Semi-skilled means sometimes just knowing how to use tools, period, and often is irrelevant to education level; when time spent in that work begins early. The project manager is often the only one who is bi-lingual or multi-lingual, because he is the one reads the plans, deals with everyone not on the job-team and as long as he can bark orders in their language it matters not that no one else understands them.