Posted on 10/19/2018 7:14:14 AM PDT by gattaca
And “brutish” labor, “lugging” steEl around? Sounds like npr doesn’t know any kind of work other than sitting on your butt in front of a computer. Or maybe osha needs to visit this place to protect the poor exploited mexicans.
They said the same thing about Construction work too.
Funny thing, in the 80-90s there were all kinds of Americans working in those industries.
Then the flood of cheap illegal labor came. Reality was that Companies intentionally cut wages to weed out Americans and hired border jumpers at 1/3 the cost.
Those that do it lie and whine about not finding qualified Citizens to do the work. In reality they can’t find Americans to do the work for what they pay the Criminal Invaders.
His “wife” and kids were, i’ll bet.
Companies would welcome back slavery if they could get away with it.
That is great to hear. I would like to see opportunities like this become more widely available for those trying to transition. Thanks for your post.
Maybe additionally DOT should make the company recall and inspect any trailer they cannot prove was welded by a certified welder.
Trailer makers are pretty local. We have a couple near me. I doubt this company competes with anyone more than 50 miles away,
I hear you....Orchards have similar issues...and there are SOME guest worker programs, but not enough.
Hire Navajo Indians, they are known as expert welders.
Yeah, “brutish labor” that a lot of people do for a hobby. That’s why you see cheap little welders at every tool retailer:. People do it for fun.
I can’t help but notice he still has half his workforce. Puts the lie to the notion he can only get illegals to do the work.
$20 an hour?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-140-000-a-year-welding-job-1420659586
HOUSTON—Justin Friend’s parents have doctoral degrees and have worked as university lecturers and researchers. So Mr. Friend might have been expected to head for a university after graduating from high school in Bryan, Texas, five years ago.
Instead, he attended Texas State Technical College in Waco, and received a two-year degree in welding. In 2013, his first full year as a welder, his income was about $130,000, more than triple the average annual wages for welders in the U.S. In 2014, Mr. Friend’s income rose to about $140,000.
That has allowed the 24-year-old to buy a $53,000 Ford F-250 pickup truck, invest in mutual funds and dabble in his hobbies, such as making jet engines, including one he attached to a golf cart.
“Not everybody needs a four-year college degree,” said Kathryn Vaughan, his mother, a retired biology lecturer who spent part of her career at Texas A&M University.
We have a winner!
I’ve believed for a long time that the split between inflation and lack of a corresponding rise in labor wages had to come to an eventual correction. The only thing that has suppressed it has been the constant influx of illegals to suppress the natural economic result by increasing available supply. Which meant someone else was raking it in.
As a shareholder I would not want the risk, but in addition dividends haven’t risen at the same rate as inflation either - IMO. Which means it went to management, the boards, and was filtered off to the aside as donations, etc
This corrupt company will either have to pay more for legal
Americans, no matter the race or go belly up.
Welding is not brutish labor. I was a welder and made great money doing it back in the late 70’s.
If the chick from “Flashdance” can do it.
Remember Rosie the Riveter!
It took about one year of paperwork and waiting in the USA to get a work visa for Japan. I had to prove to the Japanese government that my talents and skills were so specialized that Japanese nationals would not be harmed by my work. Most countries have a similar policy. Also, illegals, if caught working, were treated very harshly. The companies too.
So sick of hearing But muh lettuce? Who’s going to pick muh lettuce?
Yes, they lie like a rug.
I remember when teenagers got jobs cutting lawns and flipping burgers too.
In our area they don’t and that isn’t because they are lazy.
Companies will not hire people who are under 18, probably due to liability issues.
My son applied all over town before he turned 18.
He was even told he was not qualified to make pizza.
My boy can cook circles around those people and has been doing it since he was ten!
He finally got a job at a locally owned business through a friend and moved on to another better job via previous networking contacts.
Bilingual preferred is another lie that really means must be hispanic. Daughter’s friend works at Jack in the Box. She hates it because she doesn’t speak spanish but probably got hired because she was hispanic.
The crew are all hispanic and refuse to speak english so sometimes she has a hard time keeping up and doing exactly what they want. In reality, they are probably giving her a hard time for not being one of them and being fully American.
It’s cheaper to hire illegal workers.
Welding isn’t hard to learn. Back in high school, the ag teachers wouldn’t allow me to help weld a trailer because it wasn’t seemly for a girl to do such but it was fine that I taught the boys to weld. Go figure.
I am a retired pipefitter and there is a big difference between welding on a trailer and welding pipe. That being said, there is a huge shortage of qualified welders.Good welders today wouldn’t think of hiring on for less than $32.00 an hour plus overtime and bennies. If you think you can’t afford a good welder, see what a bad one will cost you.The last place I worked before retiring had about a 90% mexican work force,mostly legal, maybe a few that weren’t but let me tell ya, the quality of work was some of the best I ever seen. This was all 100% xray work. We had some welders go 6 months and never bust a weld, that tells ya something right there. The pay was decent but we were allways short handed for welders but this was shop work where you actually welded your entire shift, not field work where you might make one or two welds a day.
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