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If you were the president of USA, how would you make more people work in skilled trade jobs? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Relevant article:

NPR: America needs carpenters and plumbers. Gen Z doesn't seem interested.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fund a Top Gun style movie only about carpenters, plumbers, and HVAC guys. ;)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

On August 26, 1935, the United Auto Workers established an elite union for all auto mechanics. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of collective bargaining and to ensure that all the union members were the best compensated mechanics in the world.

They succeeded

Today, the UAW calls it a union. The mechanics call it:

TOP WRENCH

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Actually, my office is in the maintenance building, so I see all those guys every day. It really could make for an entertaining movie. Like a handyman version of Waiting.