People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.
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When (some) people talk about bringing back manufacturing, they mean "bring back steel & auto jobs that someone can take right out of high school, and live a middle class life"
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But the people who "miss manufacturing jobs" have a very gendered view of what the economy should look like.
That is insane at best.
“Sorry we outsourced all of the decent factory jobs (ie NAFTA) and your 20 years as a skilled machinist is useless. Go learn computers and uproot to a place you know no one” is not exactly a sell.
Cities/towns/etc are fundamentally built around economic activity. The kids are all leaving the small towns cause the reason for the town existing no longer exists.
We must learn to include working class voices in these areas
Any solution needs to include rural voices- otherwise it’s patronizing at best.
Not. Even. Once.
Good pay: $7.25/hr to start.
"I swear, nobody wants to work anymore"
repelling Taft Hartley and adding sectorial bargaining though...
was taxed at 91% and New Deal programs were funded...
https://www.tax-brackets.org/federaltaxtable/1955
None of these pundits are glorifying Rosie the Riveter being able to choose between working in the line and working in the home.
If there is a way he can line his pockets or the pockets of his friends he'll do it... F everyone else.
(Sarcasm)
The reason I don't try to find more jobs like that is precisely because it's no longer a union guaranteed living wage.
But everyone things manufacturing is assembly lines and wrench turning.
Go on keep telling people you can’t make a living in manufacturing.
Upper West Side dipshit editors who talk like that do the entire industry a disservice and it angers me.
Unions have never been for people like me in the US.
You need all different types of people to make a good society and economy. AND all deserve respect!
...Holy shit. I got to use the term correctly. Do I get a prize?
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It’s why the absurd HINRYs even exist. If you pay all your money to survive and have no outlets for rest and recreation, you and your politics will turn inward and greedy.
There are people doing essentially the same job for Amazon, with no union, and they are overworked and underpaid and will never retire if Jeff Bezos has his way.
I feel bad for young postal workers. Some would quit after a few weeks, and I often told people I'd have done the same if it had been that hard in 1989.
They have forced overtime hours, are paid minimum wage, and have high rates of injuries. And no representation to know the real data
We cannot sustain America on the infrastructure America currently has.
This isn't hard!
clothing - for example is still almost entirely made by hand on machines
He's been inferring we are going to make it pre-Revenue Act of 1913 here again, and he'd really like to make it 1865 to 1902 if possible. That's the real goal.
Asking for a friend.
They want a reality that cannot exist, unless you want to abuse your own populace.
It's telling that people only see steel and cars, and not the loss of textile and furniture manufacturing. Clothes, etc. Yes, we need it local.
What's going to happen is one or more of the low-tariff countries are going to import what they need to make the finished goods and then export those to us.
Long term, regional production is better for societies and the climate. Your personal aversion to making things at small and medium scale
e is not everyone's.
The wsy things are is not the way they must be. Things change. It's okay.
Please, I am begging you, read a book not by a crypto bro, a CEO, or a toxic positivity grifter.
I think a lot of maga voters internalize e.g. 1955's middle class lifestyle as their reference while to trump it's clearly more like 1890 when there wasn't really a meaningful middle class at all.
These rich fucks all want to take us back to the Gilded Age where only they can benefit and loot the government at their leisure
The poverty since hasn't helped of course but man that was the best time I ever had just sitting there sand blasting away 10 hours a day 😌
She was union & had worked second shift at a Ford parts warehouse since graduating from high school. She earned $97,000 per year, plus benefits.
It was a short meeting.
The ruling class in USA gave the unions some of what they wanted starting in the 30s (to avoid socialist revolution) and started eroding that in the 80s… americans are finally realizing. Now the elite are trying to swiftly reassert their position on top.
#classstruggle
#unions
#unionjobs
Difficult, but not impossible.