American manufacturers importing workers

[OhioChick]

March 5, 2012: 6:56 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. manufacturers, frustrated by a shortage of skilled American factory workers, are going abroad to find them.

Business for factories has surged recently, creating a huge demand for machinists, tool and die makers, computer-controlled machine programmers and operators.

"These jobs are the backbone of manufacturing," said Gardner Carrick, senior director with the Manufacturing Institute. "These are good quality middle-class jobs that Americans should be training for."

The United States is experiencing a shrinking pipeline of manufacturing talent, said James Wall, deputy director of the National Institute for Metalworking Skills.

More: http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/05/smallbusiness/manufacturing-workers/index.htm?source=cnn_bin

I'm so damn tired of hearing this "shortage of skilled American workers" BS.

[xchrom]

1. Fuck. Nt

[onethatcares]

2. well no shit sherlock,

after years of constant shouting about how manufacturing jobs were a thing of the past and everyone should

get a "career" in the service or health industries they have to change their pitch and blame the working man.

[Vincardog]

3. Killing the unions and their training programs has consciences Have the PTB figured that out yet?

This is the result of letting the .01% control our government and economy.
Marx was correct. Capitalism kills itself.

[bart95]

11. I think a negative side effect of marx

is that he claimed to speak for all working people, and the powers that be were quick to name him the speaker for all working people

therefore, anyone who thinks that someone who works for a living has ANY rights at all, is somehow a 'marxist'/communist, which didnt have that stigma prior to marx, it was just a group of people sticking up for their interests, such as the guilds in europe

they were not seen as 'trying to overthrow the government', or 'start a revolution', they were just workers in a particular field sticking up for themselves, and participating in standards of their work, not unlike the AMA or ABA

[TBF]

12. He did not "claim to speak" for all working people -

he wrote about economics. He gave working people hope that they might be able to resist against the forces that are holding them back. Joining the ABA is not going to accomplish that.

[ChromeFoundry]

4. Why is it that we have a shortage of EVERYTHING

here in the US? Yet so many people in these very fields are out of work.

I Call - BULLSHIT.

[OhioChick]

8. It's a steaming pile of BULLSHIT n/t

[JHB]

5. Here's a wild idea...

...TRAIN PEOPLE! Invest in your work force!

Throw out the management books and consultants who insist everything should be "plug & play, hit the ground running". If you want people to hit the ground running, you have to support the practice sessions.

[xchrom]

6. Kick

[Brickbat]

7. It's not simply a shortage of workers. It's a shortage of workers who will work for shit wages on

crappy schedules with no representation or collective action.

[Mopar151]

9. 1000% n/t

[bart95]

10. kind of surprised it took this long for h-1b abuse to spread beyond tech

I knew it was inevitable, I'm actually surprised it didnt start sooner

it has always been, nothing more, nothing less, than a LABOR model

never had anything to do with tech, or shortages

perhaps hitting occupations that have unions will create a response, and set a legal precident