Plantagenet wrote:baha wrote: If the Dems were in charge we would get 3 and 6 with no 1 and 2. What happened to compromise?.
Actually, the unions shrank away under the Ds and the Ds did nothing except give speeches filled with crocodile tears.
The most positive thing for unions is the growth of manufacturing we are seeing the in the US right now for the first time in decades. Manufacturing factory jobs are the natural milieu for unions, and the Trump tax cuts and tariffs are making companies do more of their manufacturing in the US. It may not last, but for now manufacturing jobs in the US are growing again.
Record number of manufacturing jobs returning to USCheers!
And yet, in the overall scheme of things, it's peanuts. Under 10% of the needed jobs being filled is better than jobs going away, but it doesn't remotely "Make America Great Again" compared to the many millions of former factory jobs that have been lost in the US.
The number of full time workers in the US has increased by over a million a year for the past 25 years.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/192 ... ince-1990/Even if more factories open in the US, the number of workers per unit of factory production is going to tend to be less than it used to, and that number will continue to decrease, due to computers and automation.
Also, the decent jobs in factories are increasingly going to be for folks who understand technology and can deal with programming and fixing complex machinery -- not simple physical labor. Thus education will be key -- even for a lot of "factory" jobs.
Examples: 1). The hotshots in car repair are becoming guys who never get greasy. They utilize the computers to understand the electronic diagnostic data, plot the best repair strategy, and tell the guys who get greasy what to do. 2). In car manufacturing, a way to have a great future at a place like Toyota is to know how to program and repair the robots which do much of the labor. Even better -- to improve the way the robotic labor is implemented (safety, efficiency, scope of jobs they can do, etc).
Again, high tech jobs requiring lots of education.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.