Welders should make at least $50k a year. They risk all sorts of cancer and burns. The businesses profit from cheap labor. There are trained American welders.
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Trained welders in the middle of nowhere Texas? Enough to fill several businesses in the area. The article mentions they need to fill gaps due to high demand and obviously can’t find enough people to do the work. It’s an industry problem not a single business problem.
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This is what happens when you push college on every kid in school and take away trade education because for some reason working a trade isn’t as good a job as you would get with a degree. Some people are just made to work with their hands. Craftsmen built this country.
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I agree. College isn't for everyone. I have seen though, that these trade schools can also be cost prohibitive for many, and we should make them affordable (as well as college) or we're just tying our hands in the end.
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Very true, as all higher education has become. They used to start them in high school and then train on the job in apprenticeship programs.
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Yes! I remember that Shop taught you electricity, welding, mechanics etc. then helped you with apprenticing when you left school I hated that women could only learn to cook, sew. Welding looked cool as hell Insurance would probably make that costly now, we can't even afford books
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I got my first job through Office Co-Op. I worked 1 to 5 PM in lieu of the last couple hours of school.
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I’m having trouble here, I hate ICE, & their heartless enforcement! But I’m not feeling so bad for a company that should have been proactive in training up welders from within the community, THAT would have meant better pay and benefits. Welding is not a job like harvesting food!
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Hays what I have been saying all along. If they would focus on businesses that hire undocumented workers the problem would work itself out. Some employers actually hep their employees get on the correct path because they value them. Others just take advantage of cheap labor.
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If companies want cheap labor they should move to Mexico. A good economy in Mexico means less people want to come to the US.
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Why didn’t the employers get fined or jailed?
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A criminal case against the company is pending.
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And the executive who lined his pockets will just get a presidential pardon. Kinda crazy for a group that hates all these immigrants taking American jobs, when the ones hiring them instead are fucking local heroes.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/20/trump-commutes-sentence-kosher-meatpacking-business-executive-rubashkin-311389 … Biggest immigration raid in state history, devastated the town the plant was in. Painted by the president this year...
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Maybe they should instead hire citizens and legal residents at fair wages. Just thinking.
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The article states they pay 20-25 an hour and hires anyone that walks in the door. People aren’t walking in the door. So paying a living wage is not even an argument. People don’t wanna do the hard labor.
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It also says “a flyspeck town”. I have two thoughts: 1. Could this speck have become a town out of the express desire to hire undocuworkers for cheaper near the border? 2. If not, has the business considered helping the employees attain green cards? 1/
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I’m pro immigrant. I’m against the heavy handed tactics ICE uses. But I’m pro-legal resident and legal immigrant. Want to make sure these shops/towns don’t exist where they do solely to skirt the rules.
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