Employers overlook skiled Americans
From: Letters to the editor RGJ March 19, 2006http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/OPED02/603190358
Re "Experts forcast issues with labor" [Business, March 9]:
While I was attending school, I never heard a teacher speak well of shop classes, or the trades in general. However, I did hear them publilcly berate students who attended those classes with the implication that only mental duds took them. As my children were going to school I, on several occasions, asked their teachers why young people were not encouraged to enter the trades. The subject was quickly changed.
In the last few years, businesspeople have been saying that there are not enough people in the skilled trades, and we needed to recruit foreign nationals to make up for the shortage. When asked why Businesses are not training young people in the trades; it comes down to money. I guess training can not be budgeted for.
Apparently skilled American workers are not worthy of $20 an hour, but foreign nationals are worth $5 an hour.
Their unemployable reletatives can then come in and get issued a 12-guage straw to tap into our welfare system with.
Gordon Birmingham, Reno
posted by cl @ 8:13 PM
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