Posted on 06/01/2004 8:51:58 AM PDT by zencat
U.S. manufacturing chugged to a full year of expansion in May, pushing factory hiring to its highest in 31 years, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tom Daschle is deeply saddened.
You beat me! Ditto.
Bookmarking this one. Think the people that all claim our manufacturing sector is all but gone will even care?
Guess which direction this pushes unemployment?
DOWN.
Economy doing okay - good news out of Iraq... looks like the start of a good week.
DembocRATs on suicide watch
for the Kerry camp.
Okay.
Our message recently has been splintered. If we coordinate it better, W can open up another lead over JFnK.
Dont tell me, either, in Ct the want ads are the smallest they have been in years
Mechanical Engineering jobs are the smallest they have been in years
wages for the factory jobs that do exist are at 1983 levels, and I am not exaggerating!
Asking someone to work for $8.00 is a high wage now!
Some dare to go as high as $13!!
I made more than that 15 years ago.
Yet, gas is higher than 15 years ago, so is rent, so are motor vehicle fees, so are taxes, so is food, so is milk, so is the phone bill, so is the electric bill...
In other words, the cost of living has doubled or tripled since 1983 (20 years ago) but wages for jobs have been cut inhalf or down to 1/3 for the same work or even more technical work!
Oh, no!!! More pain for the kerrorists!!
As proponents of foreign outsourcing, The Institute for Supply Management is notorious for placing fallacious spin on it's bogus statistics. Government policies remain structurally hostile to the manufacturing sector, and there is no reason to suspect any long term reversal of the outsourcing trend. Until more detail statistics are made available, one would have to conclude that this is either a temporary seasonal blip, or that "hiring" has increased due to retirement of stable, senior employees and job churn occurring among inexperienced newhires. An increase in hiring doesn't necessarily indicate an increase of actual jobs available.
Yet, gas is higher than 15 years ago, so is rent, so are motor vehicle fees, so are taxes, so is food, so is milk, so is the phone bill, so is the electric bill...
And if someone who was doing those jobs 15 years ago hasn't increased their marketable skill set in the past 15 years, then they have locked themselves into their situation, not the economy, and certainly not President Bush.
I'm not sure what the wages are, but here are the engineering jobs from Monster, over the last month. Some are obviously low-skill, low-pay. Many aren't. None of these would pay more than $13/hour?
May 28 Optics / Electro-Optics / Infrared Systems
Management Recruiters Intntl US-CT-Connecticut
May 28 Mechanical Engineer
PerkinElmer, Inc. US-CT-Shelton
May 27 Engineering Associate/Consultant
Navigant Consulting, Inc. US-CT-Fairfield
May 27 Mechanical Engineer or P.E.
Company Confidential US-CT-Danbury/Bridgeport
May 27 MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Adecco Employment Services US-CT-Hartford
May 27 Mechanical Design Engineer (Gas Turbine Components)
Belcan TechServices US-CT-Windsor Locks
May 26 Manager, Worldwide Product Qualification
Otis Elevator Company US-CT-Farmington
May 26 Technicans - Electro/Mechanical/Optical
The Monroe Group US-CT-Danbury/Bridgeport
May 26 Technicans - Electro/Mechanical/Optical
The Monroe Group US-CT-Hartford
May 26 Technicans - Electro/Mechanical/Optical
The Monroe Group US-CT-New Haven
May 25 MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Adecco Employment Services US-CT-Danbury/Bridgeport
May 25 Project/Product Development Engineer (Gas Turbines)
Belcan TechServices US-CT-Windsor Locks
May 24 Mechanical Designer, 3D, Parametric CAD Design
TAC Worldwide Companies US-CT-Danbury
May 24 PQIS3515-19190 Sr. Reliability Engineer
UTC Research Center US-CT-East Hartford
May 23 Inside Sales Specialist
UTC - Power US-CT-Hartford
May 21 ENGINEERING OPENINGS!
Spherion US-CT-Bridgeport
May 21 Cost Reduction Project Manager (Gas Turbines)
Belcan TechServices US-CT-Windsor Locks
May 20 Manager Design Engineering Rotating Machinery
Kelly Services US-CT-Hartford
May 20 Mechanical Engineering Manager
Company Confidential US-CT-New Haven
May 20 Structures Engineer
Belcan TechServices US-CT-Windsor Locks
May 19 Senior Mechanical Engineer
Management Recruiters Intntl US-CT-Stamford
May 18 Systems Design Engineer
Belcan TechServices US-CT-Windsor Locks
May 18 Quality Assurance Test and Measurment Supervisor
CUNO US-CT-Enfield
May 16 Animal Care Technical Sales Engineer
Design Learned, Inc. US-CT-Southeast/New London
May 14 PACKAGING ENGINEER
Nesco Service Company US-CT-Hartford
May 14 Process Engineer (Manufacturing)
Von Roll – Isola USA, Inc. US-CT-New Haven
May 13 Engineering document checker
Manpower US-CT-Norwich
May 12 QA ENGINEER
Tyco Healthcare US-CT-New Haven
May 11 Design Engineer
Friedman Associates US-CT-New Haven Area
May 11 Mechanical Project Engineer
Belcan TechServices US-CT-Windsor Locks
May 11 SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Goodrich Electro Optical Syste US-CT-Danbury
May 10 RF Engineering (4)
Hamilton Connections US-CT-Hamden/ New Haven
May 7 Technical Service Representative/Engineer
Dymax Corporation US-CT-Torrington
May 7 Technical Service Representative/Engineer
Dymax Corporation US-CT-Torrington
May 7 Senior Fellow for Systems Engineering
Pratt & Whitney US-CT-East Hartford
May 6 Technical Advisor (Software)
Pitney Bowes US-CT-Danbury
May 6 Mechanical Engineer
ASR Corp. US-CT-Milford
May 5 Mechanical Design Engineer-SD086
ENTEGEE Engineering Tech Grp. US-CT-Hartford
May 5 Piping Drafter with a Nuclear Background
TAC Worldwide Companies US-CT-Groton
May 4 Senior Mechanical Plumbing/Fire Protection Project Engineer
Management Recruiters Intntl US-CT-Danbury/Bridgeport
May 3 Mechanical Engineer
Manpower Professional US-CT-Norwalk
So is Willie!
Here where I live, we have an opening for a sanitary engineer - you know, the guy who drives around and sucks out porta-potties?
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