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Trump Meets Tech Industry Leaders With Effusive Greeting
Topic Started: Dec 14 2016, 09:43 PM (631 Views)
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PATruth
Dec 15 2016, 11:56 AM
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Dec 15 2016, 09:35 AM
I sense a deal here: bring those electronics assembly jobs back home and there will be plenty of EB-3 visas to allow the people doing the job in China to continue to do it in Detroit, at least until the new assembly robots come on line. Good times ahead!
Of course, that was definitely part of the deal. The American education system isn't creating the pool of talent needed in the high tech industry. Our politicians are more worried about raising the minimum wage for low skill workers than educating our citizens for high pay tech jobs. In any event, if we need to import talent it's better they live here and pay American taxes. Maybe some of their work ethic will rub off on our young snowflakes.
I remember when Sputnik sparked a national concern about the quality of America's public education and resulted in the National Defense Education Act. It would be a significant benefit if the Trump policy of creating jobs led to a similar investigation and improvement.

Those working class whites who voted for Trump have kids of their own whose future is tied to good jobs. There are hundreds of thousands of such jobs unfulfilled now because they require technical skills such as are taught in our Tech-Voc colleges. I have an acquaintance who teaches mechanical drawing -- now called CAD -- in a TVC downstate. He has said for years that a huge amount of the curriculim could be taught at the high school level if we just cut out the bs K-12.

The campus atmosphere at the TVC is so different. Students don't have to go there. In fact, you have to make an effort to apply and be accepted. Their seriousness is obvious because they know that if you graduate you are virtually guaranteed a good job. If you screw up and get the boot, well, we all know what happens then. And this is taking place in NH, the state with the lowest unemployment!
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Dec 15 2016, 12:28 PM
PATruth
Dec 15 2016, 11:56 AM
George Aligator
Dec 15 2016, 09:35 AM
I sense a deal here: bring those electronics assembly jobs back home and there will be plenty of EB-3 visas to allow the people doing the job in China to continue to do it in Detroit, at least until the new assembly robots come on line. Good times ahead!
Of course, that was definitely part of the deal. The American education system isn't creating the pool of talent needed in the high tech industry. Our politicians are more worried about raising the minimum wage for low skill workers than educating our citizens for high pay tech jobs. In any event, if we need to import talent it's better they live here and pay American taxes. Maybe some of their work ethic will rub off on our young snowflakes.
I remember when Sputnik sparked a national concern about the quality of America's public education and resulted in the National Defense Education Act. It would be a significant benefit if the Trump policy of creating jobs led to a similar investigation and improvement.

Those working class whites who voted for Trump have kids of their own whose future is tied to good jobs. There are hundreds of thousands of such jobs unfulfilled now because they require technical skills such as are taught in our Tech-Voc colleges. I have an acquaintance who teaches mechanical drawing -- now called CAD -- in a TVC downstate. He has said for years that a huge amount of the curriculim could be taught at the high school level if we just cut out the bs K-12.

The campus atmosphere at the TVC is so different. Students don't have to go there. In fact, you have to make an effort to apply and be accepted. Their seriousness is obvious because they know that if you graduate you are virtually guaranteed a good job. If you screw up and get the boot, well, we all know what happens then. And this is taking place in NH, the state with the lowest unemployment!
I agree. I'm associated with some of my city's trade unions and union training programs. I hear the same story again and again, they can't get qualified candidates for their apprentice programs. They will start with 20 candidates, most can't do the math, others have multiple DUI's and can't drive and what's left of the bunch will quit shortly after training, they find the work too demanding. I have another friend that's a high skilled welder, he's making well in excess of $100,000 and he's been trying to retire for years. His union keeps dragging back to finish jobs because they can't hire qualified people. New welders are getting a nice signing bonus if qualified.

We are becoming victims of our own success. Everyone wants better for their children which in most cases doesn't include manual work or joining the trades. When I was younger becoming a steelworker or joining a trade union was an attractive alternative to college. I'm not sure when building something real became so unattractive?
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