Its so strange to watch the party that once represented labor now trashing the idea of providing jobs for people who work with their hands. Anyone remember the movie that made Michael Moore famous? I remember at the time thinking how foolish it was to blame the factory closures on CEO’s. The same foolishness is being rolled out now. My h…
Its so strange to watch the party that once represented labor now trashing the idea of providing jobs for people who work with their hands. Anyone remember the movie that made Michael Moore famous? I remember at the time thinking how foolish it was to blame the factory closures on CEO’s. The same foolishness is being rolled out now. My hunch is that the loudest opponents of …factories.. have never thought much about manufacturing and they are mostly redirecting their ferocious hatred of Trump supporters. Local Manufacturing economies are in and of themselves complex semi contained ecosystems that have many aspects and support many services and lifestyles. In New England we used to have thousands of machine shops and boutique small manufacturing companies. In addition to supporting and often moving on to create local businesses many workers went from factory floor, to technician, to engineer sometimes going to night school. I know one such individual who became CTO at a major solar cell manufacturer. (Yes, green energy needs manufacturing too.) Not all factory jobs are dead ends. Not sure how it is today but Magna was once legendary for its loyalty to workers and its commitment to elevate and retain motivated workers. It is unbecoming of serious thinkers to reduce the idea of manufacturing to bad low paid jobs.
Its so strange to watch the party that once represented labor now trashing the idea of providing jobs for people who work with their hands. Anyone remember the movie that made Michael Moore famous? I remember at the time thinking how foolish it was to blame the factory closures on CEO’s. The same foolishness is being rolled out now. My hunch is that the loudest opponents of …factories.. have never thought much about manufacturing and they are mostly redirecting their ferocious hatred of Trump supporters. Local Manufacturing economies are in and of themselves complex semi contained ecosystems that have many aspects and support many services and lifestyles. In New England we used to have thousands of machine shops and boutique small manufacturing companies. In addition to supporting and often moving on to create local businesses many workers went from factory floor, to technician, to engineer sometimes going to night school. I know one such individual who became CTO at a major solar cell manufacturer. (Yes, green energy needs manufacturing too.) Not all factory jobs are dead ends. Not sure how it is today but Magna was once legendary for its loyalty to workers and its commitment to elevate and retain motivated workers. It is unbecoming of serious thinkers to reduce the idea of manufacturing to bad low paid jobs.