Posted on 02/28/2015 10:57:18 AM PST by posterchild
One burned twice shy?
I can’t believe they pay these people.
It may have something to do with illegals depressing salaries in construction trades.
The long lasting effects of this administrations Marxist assault on America will be felt across several generations and may not be fully known for a couple of centuries. Obama has truthfully been the typhoid Mary of 21st century political action.
Illegals replaced black & white construction workers 15 years ago. Only the foreman is bi-lingual.(suppliers)
“....which explored why shortages of construction workers are emerging...”
They all went home for Navidad and are waiting for the snow to melt before they come back.
The older ones that were near retirement retired.
The middle aged ones either went into other jobs or got some kind of disability.
The younger ones went to North Dakota.
The ones that were in middle school when this debacle started never considered a career in construction because there were no jobs available.
A great deal of the work - once you get below the G C (general contractor) level - is done my small business. And this layer has largely disappeared. The climate for small business is so poor right now that I don’t see it coming back - at least not for a while.
What a pity!
At one time, every high school in my area had a solid building trades (vocational) program. Those programs are largely gone now.
How many want to join unions? For the non-union shops they’re all filled with cheap working messycans.
Que?
They’re all working under the table.. Cash . no records.
Are these people really this stupid? The only people who work in construction are illegal Mexicans who aren’t on the books. If you don’t count them it means 1 Mexican is building four or five houses at a time.
The “shortage” of OTM workers is because they’ve been shut out over the years by low wages.
Not to worry, there are hundreds of thousands of Central Americans who have never seen a level or a square ready and eager to build our next generation of housing.
Certainly in northern NJ; near my home is the Meadowlands Flea Market (next to Giants Stadium), where one can see Americans sell all of their tools (as well as household furnishings) to the foreign invaders who took their jobs and will soon be living in their homes.
I’m not kidding.
The illegal aliens who used to work construction are sitting on their butts collecting welfare through their baby mamas now, just like our original welfare class. America...what a country: Land of the cheat and home of the freeloader.
I KNOW you are not kidding.
By the way, illegals in greater Phoenix built around 10,000
new homes from 2004-2008. ALL of them are crumbling!!
“Free Marketers” love to have both ways. Outsource to cut costs - OK, I understand, make sense....
and insource. Oh the labor market won’t let me pay what I want, fine we’ll flood the job market with 3rd worlders. Its garbage and traitorous, but its reality. The salt in the wound is that taxpayers also subsidize “free marketers” new employees with housing, medical and other freebies. Yeah New World Order Capitalism!
I can believe that; a friend who was let go by a roofing company (for which he’d worked for years) was concerned that he’d be let go because he couldn’t speak Spanish - he could either work supervising (actually training) Mexicans or he’d be let go. He was never much of a student anyway, but a great worker; he was in his mid-forties, and simply couldn’t learn the language. Hasn’t worked in a couple of years, and though he doesn’t receive disability he is unable to do the few McJobs that are available because of his back...
When his company first started using Mexicans he would describe how they would say they were familiar with all kinds of tools, then just basically learn on the job. He admired them for that and helped them, not realizing that it spelled the end of his own job.
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