US factory CEOs to Trump: Jobs exist; skills don't

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump brought two dozen manufacturing CEOs to the White House on Thursday and declared their collective commitment to restoring factory jobs lost to foreign competition.

Yet some of the CEOs suggested that there were still plenty of openings for U.S. factory jobs but too few qualified people to fill them. They urged the White House to support vocational training for the high-tech skills that today's manufacturers increasingly require — a topic Trump has seldom addressed.

"The jobs are there, but the skills are not," one executive said during meetings with White House officials that preceded a session with the president. (Reporters were permitted to attend the meetings on the condition of not quoting individual executives by name.)

The discussion of job training and worker skills is a relatively new one for Trump, who campaigned for the White House on promises to restore manufacturing jobs that he said had been lost to flawed trade deals and unfair competition from countries like Mexico and China.

http://bigstory.ap.org/22d25696b2074d1a90a4ca519c630ecd

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I have heard about this issue intermittently over the years.

The down side of a culture that only values a four year college degree and totally ignores vocational training, is this.

Some thirty years ago a man I knew ran a small machine shop. It took quite a bit of skill to operate those machines, and he had trouble getting qualified people. It never occurred to me to question what he paid them, but I'm going to guess it was pretty good money. He wasn't a Republican asshole.

[leftstreet]

2. Here's an idea whining CEO$, offer on-the-job-training

Duh

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. I will second that DUH! -

When I started with the telco I was still in HS - funny, how, in those days everyone worked for the telco....30 years later - with all the job training the company offered - oh and paid for college education - I was able to retire at 51 -with benefits..with great retirement package...I also saved, along with corp. matching funds to the max..

My husband didn't know anything about tape machines, or mailing machines..he started as an apprentice - found out he was very mechanically inclined - to the point after 6 years he opened his own business.. - that field today, after 16 years - monopolized by giants who pushed the little guy out..it's okay..he can't keep up with all the calls for having this, that, or another thing painted...

Corps need to invest in their employees and stop this nonsense - workers have no skills..TRAIN THEM...

[Initech]

3. Wrong again!

Jobs exist and skills exist. Skilled workers don't want to work shitty working conditions for shitty wages and no benefits. No one wants to work 16 hour days with no breaks and barely make rent. That's what Trump and these CEOs need to realize. No one wants to work for $25,000, while their CEO makes $25,000,000.