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The Real News: High Unemployment Due to Lack of Demand, Not Lack of Skills or Education (Original Post)
geefloyd46
May 2013
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Skittles
(153,169 posts)1. lack of demand is due to offshoring
HELLO!
cartach
(511 posts)2. Right on. Sure wouldn't send work offshore because education/skills are lacking here.None
of that needed there,just cheap labor.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)3. Everyone knows that it's because of Unions.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)4. I got a robo-call from the
Carpenters Union last night.
Canada is hiring 10,000 American UNION carpenters and millwrights NOW. Our highly skilled, Unionized carpenters cannot findwork in the U S.
I do not know if it is for the keystone pipeline. Canada has employed it's (larger than ours) Union carpenter work-force and is pleading for ten thousand Union American carpenters.
If I were healthy I'd move my family there immediately.
When I was still working, I earned $30 + an hour and great benefits, overtime, etc..
Canadians were earning 1 1/2 times that.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)5. Went to Montreal a couple years back.
I envied the public transport and just basic infrastructure improvements I saw that they had in place or were putting in place. Buncha commies though.