Posted on 08/04/2023 1:00:47 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A cultural stigma around traditional “blue-collar” jobs runs alive and well – and could potentially hurt the next workforce generation and America’s infrastructure.
“You’re not just a widget manufacturer. You’re not just an excavation company. You are building America. You’re building a future for your family. You’re learning the work ethic that leads to good souls for your kids. There’s more to it than just work,” RedBalloon CEO Andrew Crapuchettes told Fox News Digital.
From electricians and plumbers to homebuilders and stonemasons, the U.S. labor market is seemingly desperate to fill skilled labor positions.
Since the start of this year, there have been more than 770,000 skilled job postings from nearly 95,000 different employers across the country, according to data from PeopleReady Skilled Trades.
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too late. the clintons leaked the IT sector to india in 2000
Never to late to end H-1B. NEVER.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/02/christ-church-idaho-theocracy-us-america
A Guardian investigation has revealed that a controversial church whose leader has openly expressed the ambition of creating a “theocracy” in America has accumulated significant influence in the city of Moscow, Idaho.
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Recent reporting focused attention once more on the church’s – and Wilson’s – handling of a series of sexual abuse cases...
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Merkle, Jankovic, and all three Wilson men are also elders at Christ Church, along with a founding director and former trustee at NSAC, Moscow resident Andrew Crapuchettes.
Until June 2021, when the company was acquired by a competitor, Crapuchettes had been chief executive of Moscow’s largest private employer, EMSI, for more than 19 years.
Since his departure from EMSI, Andrew Crapuchettes has started a new venture, a jobs website called Red Balloon, which advertises itself as connecting “employers who value freedom with employees who value it too”, in “a world beyond cancel culture, where employees are free to work … without fear that they will find themselves on the wrong side of their employer’s politics”.
Many of the website’s initial clients appeared to be either church run or founded organizations, or companies belonging to other church members. Now, Crapuchettes has branched out into property development, and this year won approval from Moscow city council for the “annexation” of 27 acres of land on Moscow’s south-western edge for a new, 109 unit subdivision called Edington.
TF is going on in Moscow, Idaho....
Yes, mine are of the latter variety.
Yes. A neighbor's son did some chores for me in my back yard, clearing ivy and weeds. He worked hard and I paid him well, by the hour. He moved from California to Texas with his girlfriend in search of jobs and fortune. Unfortunately, his girlfriend dumped him, and the guy returned to California penniless. His father told him to get working, and he is now happily working as an apprentice butcher for a grocery chain. Not everyone wants a lazy desk job; some want a blue collar skill.
One of my grandsons has what I call ‘speed dial’ on his cell. He is 32 going on 15 and she won’t let him grow up by sending money (BY CELL) every time he says he’s broke. Then he spends it on some item he saw in a ‘candy’ store.
Pathetic.
Surveying became a part time job due to GPS and digital mapping.
Civil engineers and architects are now treated as "on-demand" professionals. The real money was in owning or being a partner in a firm. As that generation retires out, the next tier of junior partners doesn't want to buy them out, so the senior partners sell to a large global corporation.
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