Posted on 04/03/2015 4:55:44 AM PDT by thackney
Not enough folks who want to do “the dirty jobs” - not when you can get by living off gubbermint benefits and web surfing at Starbucks or Panera all day.
Do used to be an American company. It is now run by globalists.
CONSTRUCTION ON $8B ETHANE COMPLEX TO CREATE 5,000 JOBS
http://www.constructionequipment.com/construction-8b-ethane-complex-create-5000-jobs
Sasol Ltd. is moving forward with an $8.1 billion ethane cracker complex project at its existing manufacturing facility near Lake Charles, La.
That should be DOW used to be American, stupid auto correct.
DEP to hold hearing on air permit for proposed Shell ethane plant
http://powersource.post-gazette.com/powersource/companies-powersource/2015/03/30/Pennsylvania-DEP-to-hold-hearing-on-air-permit-for-proposed-Shell-ethane-cracker-plant/stories/201503300132
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will hold a question-and-answer session and a public hearing in May as it prepares to issue a key air quality permit for Shell Chemical Appalachia’s proposed petrochemical complex in Beaver County.
The meeting and hearing are scheduled for May 5 beginning at 6 p.m. at Central Valley High School Auditorium in Monaca.
Shell Chemical, a division of Royal Dutch Shell, is evaluating building an ethane cracker on the site of the former Horsehead Corp.’s zinc smelter. The multibillion dollar facility, if completed, will crack ethane and manufacture polyethylene pellets for use in the plastics industry.
I think its more of a case of a generation that lost those skills when manufacturing went overseas.
And those Dow “globablists” (as you put it) are chosing to invest in US manufacturing and jobs.
Yup, being a welder, pipefitter or heavy equipment operator are now jobs that most Americans are unwilling to do.
Sad. Very sad.
D’oh!
The issue in our area is that those who want an oil and gas job can’t pass the initial drug test to get hired, or they have felonies and/drivers license issues. The companies’ solutions is to import workers from their home states. We have a lot of Texas and Oklahoma plates driving around the Ohio Valley.
If you are going to have a world capital market economy, the first thing you need is the free flow of capital. It also good to have the free flow of goods and labor.
BTW, those damned globalists also own Budweiser.
I’m sure there will be lots of welders, pipe fitters, heavy equipment operators and truck drivers coming up from Mexico. If not, the government will fix the problem, and educate them. Illegals are so far advanced over the rest of us mere American mortals, they can learn with super human speed.
I was thinking the oil fields will have a supply of labor for this.
Of course, these companies want the taxpayers to foot the training bill. Hire people and train ‘em yourselves!
What do these companies expect? They HAD skilled workers, and proceeded to kick them to the curb at the first hint of a downturn.
This isn’t just a petrochemical industry problem. A LOT of industries have this very same problem. The solution so far has been to import more H1-B workers, to the point of displacing the indigenous labor force.
And this will continue as long as companies treat their skilled labor as disposable commodity.
you got your cause and effect bass ackwards.
Right back at ya.
Mike Rowe agrees with me, not you.
The TV host? Please. When we started shipping these jobs overseas in the 70’s and 80’s, it wasn’t because we didn’t have skilled workers. That notion is patently ridiculous.
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