Tapsearch Com EditorBias about factory workers skills
July 28th 2010 20:26
Bizarre Politics Reports:
It is obvious that those who never worked in factory or production, know very little about the skill level of the millions of production workers who have lost their jobs including millions in the computer industry
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Free Trade and Globalization have created a working poor class and underclass in the USA while our political leaders and journalists ignore what really happened.
They say there should be no underclass in the USA and point to education as the culprit instead of the core reasons behind the degradation of workers dignity and the value of workers and work in general. Both parties took part in the most massive dislocation of U.S. workers in history. President Clinton led the way in the passing of NAFTA and GATT free trade agreements.
Free Trade is the cause of our economic crisis
Kevin Obrien, top conservative journalist and assistant editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer is an example of many conservatives and
intellectual liberals who just do not know what production workers are
all about. Obrien describes them as workers of brawn and workers who
put two things together over and over again. He obviously believes that these jobs were low skill ones and were doomed in the global economy.We lost millions of jobs due to free trade moving our production jobs outside the USA. The industrial revolution is not over. It has just been moved to other
places in the world. Any job manual or high tech can be moved and any
production can be copied too up and down the line from the lowest casual
labor jobs to technicians in automated plants.
I worked in several factories while going to college and if the jobs
were available today, there would be thousands standing in line to get
them including college grads. Higher education does not mean that much
these days for any worker is replaceable. Obrien talks about the
underclass and that the underclass should not exist in the USA. He cites
our poor education systems as being the reason for an underclass.
First of all those who have some kind of job protection need and are
living off the suffering of the underclass. Something is very wrong with
a society when a teacher makes three times more than the parents of the
children they teach. What can be expected from this kind of disparity.
The underclass exists because of actions taken by those in the upper
classes, political arena, the financial community, the transnational
corporate world and even the academic world. Both political parties have
joined hands when it comes to free trade and globalization. Both
conservatives and liberals have betrayed the common man and workers
everywhere. The let free trade come and let it steal jobs from our
society. And the news channels co-operate in the ransacking of the
American Dream.
The Plain Dealer is an endangered species because it does not report things as they really are.
Below Obrien's column on the same page was the big lie about the trade
deficit and the US having a trade surplus with foods. The food is an
exclusive item of the subsidized big transnational agricultural
corporations and who have ransacked the free enterprise system. The rest
of the article is a big lie. The reporting about the extending
unemployment payments leaves out the bigger story. Only about 38 percent
of all American workers qualify for unemployment insurance.
Sadly, both our conservative and liberal leaders demonstrates a complete
lack of understanding about our times and what it takes to insure production work for members of our society. As I said, the industrial
revolution is not over, it is just moved to other places in the world.
We have a deep underclass because of this and workers who have some sort
of exclusive protection behind their jobs and the upper class live off
the working poor, the underclass and the impoverished workers of the
world. It was the factory foremen who took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In turn, these workers were able to get married, raise a family, buy a home and help send their children to college. Many of these workers were part of the middle class that paid the taxes to suppor the needs of or society.
When society knew the worth of production workers
I worked in several factories while going to college and it was obvious
there was a vast void between the factory floor and the classroom. The
academic world and the professionals had no understanding of what it
takes to enjoy good production for the benefit of all in society. At
18, I was a setup man for three assembly lines. The lead workers on the
line had to earn their place by demonstrating a great amount of skill. I
took over the job from someone who had it for 24 years and so I had to
learn all the short cuts quickly. From there I was promoted to managing
the inventory at age 18. Back then when the orders slowed down, the
workers were taken off the assembly line and took over jobs making the
parts. This was done so there would be no layoffs and the high skilled
workers would not be lost.
In those days, having a large inventory was a blessing that grew in
value. Companies back then did not fire and hire and then complain they
could not find qualified workers. Today highly skilled high technology
workers are fired and hired at will.
In my other factory jobs, I became one of the better spot welder but
could never touch the skills of the best ones. Their skills held for
their whole lifetime. In other jobs, I found myself out of it. I could
not grind castings without getting my fingers and hands all bloody. The
foreman had to make a special fitting for me for me to keep this job
which was a requirement phase in employment. I also ran punch presses
where you had to wear a harness to bring your arms back fast. I
eventually did not need the harness. Assembling overhead monorail
systems took alot of skill to and other jobs like it took skills to make
many jobs one man operations rather than two.
In the computer field, I was trained on the job. You forget that the
first generation of the computer industry was created by workers from
the field. There was no colleges yet that taught these skills. I
designed some of the first punch card systems and Honeywell sent me to
their corporate systems school and I as an artist with a history major
and a philosophy minor became one of the best in debugging the first
mainframe operating programs. I also sold and installed many of the
first nationwide offline communcation networks. Later BASF sent me to
more corporate classes and I became something of a disk storage experts
and later was sought out for these skills as far as China. I was with
Dysan for ten years and they had corporate classes and seminars on an
ongoing basis. They were the main innovators for disk storage devices.
With all of this company training, I was able to write about error
correction codes and saved many accounts including government accounts
thousands of dollars in the process.
In general data processing in many large corporation, the Data
Processing Manager, came from the office or production processes. Many
came from the factory floors and ran computer centers with million
dollar budget. And many knew how to save their company alot of money
just because of where they came from.
The last big job offer I had came from a software house offering me a
regional manager's job. ( I had opened several branch and regional
offices in the past including one in Canada. I also sold components and
computers to Chinese accounts. I was going to take the job until I found
out that they used green card workers from India do program and do
system s work. To me this is unethical and a sin. I did not take the
job and chose to lose everything rather than compromise my ideals
nearing the end of my life. I had friends who had lost everthing too
after giving all that they could to create the best high technology in
computers. Recently a top systems man closed down his 15 workers
operation because there was no way left to compete with foreign workers.
For about two years before my major heart attack, I was in business
with the very best person in computer repair. I could not get back to
work fast enough and we lost the business. He quit the industry
completely and chose instead different job pursuits at one time. He
maintains a church property, does accounting for some small business
accounts and drives a security car for funeral drives to the
cementaries. And he was the best I ever saw in computer troubleshooting.
I can go on and on about many others with millions of workers being
fired in the computer industry and these stories never get published.
Cleveland was once a core center for many high technology start ups but
then the "sins" of Free Trade. Another friend has the best and one of the largest local computer network cable, connector and supply business. He had about ten people working for him and kept a large stock of parts for more than ten years. He gave out free advice to those putting in networks without any hestitation. When Free Trade hit, even all his expertise did not stop the downfall of his business. His health was affected and he passed away. His wife took over and closed down the computer cable and network supply business and kept about five workers and started up a office cleaning company. Journalists like Obrien ignore examples like this where a highly skilled business is closed down by Free Trade and the workers find survival in a lower technology.
Kevin Obrien column tells me he is willing to participate in the big
lie, the "sins" of Free Trade and the continous betrayal of American
workers with the editors of major newspapers like the Cleveland Plain
Dealer leading the attack. The newspaper industry is fading away
because they do not report the many untold stories of our times.
Ray Tapajna
newsworld@fastmail.net
See related article at Masks behind masks in communication of the news.
Free Trade and Globalization have created a working poor class and underclass in the USA while our political leaders and journalists ignore what really happened.
They say there should be no underclass in the USA and point to education as the culprit instead of the core reasons behind the degradation of workers dignity and the value of workers and work in general. Both parties took part in the most massive dislocation of U.S. workers in history. President Clinton led the way in the passing of NAFTA and GATT free trade agreements.
Free Trade is the cause of our economic crisis
Kevin Obrien, top conservative journalist and assistant editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer is an example of many conservatives and
intellectual liberals who just do not know what production workers are
all about. Obrien describes them as workers of brawn and workers who
put two things together over and over again. He obviously believes that these jobs were low skill ones and were doomed in the global economy.We lost millions of jobs due to free trade moving our production jobs outside the USA. The industrial revolution is not over. It has just been moved to other
places in the world. Any job manual or high tech can be moved and any
production can be copied too up and down the line from the lowest casual
labor jobs to technicians in automated plants.
I worked in several factories while going to college and if the jobs
were available today, there would be thousands standing in line to get
them including college grads. Higher education does not mean that much
these days for any worker is replaceable. Obrien talks about the
underclass and that the underclass should not exist in the USA. He cites
our poor education systems as being the reason for an underclass.
First of all those who have some kind of job protection need and are
living off the suffering of the underclass. Something is very wrong with
a society when a teacher makes three times more than the parents of the
children they teach. What can be expected from this kind of disparity.
The underclass exists because of actions taken by those in the upper
classes, political arena, the financial community, the transnational
corporate world and even the academic world. Both political parties have
joined hands when it comes to free trade and globalization. Both
conservatives and liberals have betrayed the common man and workers
everywhere. The let free trade come and let it steal jobs from our
society. And the news channels co-operate in the ransacking of the
American Dream.
The Plain Dealer is an endangered species because it does not report things as they really are.
Below Obrien's column on the same page was the big lie about the trade
deficit and the US having a trade surplus with foods. The food is an
exclusive item of the subsidized big transnational agricultural
corporations and who have ransacked the free enterprise system. The rest
of the article is a big lie. The reporting about the extending
unemployment payments leaves out the bigger story. Only about 38 percent
of all American workers qualify for unemployment insurance.
Sadly, both our conservative and liberal leaders demonstrates a complete
lack of understanding about our times and what it takes to insure production work for members of our society. As I said, the industrial
revolution is not over, it is just moved to other places in the world.
We have a deep underclass because of this and workers who have some sort
of exclusive protection behind their jobs and the upper class live off
the working poor, the underclass and the impoverished workers of the
world. It was the factory foremen who took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In turn, these workers were able to get married, raise a family, buy a home and help send their children to college. Many of these workers were part of the middle class that paid the taxes to suppor the needs of or society.
When society knew the worth of production workers
I worked in several factories while going to college and it was obvious
there was a vast void between the factory floor and the classroom. The
academic world and the professionals had no understanding of what it
takes to enjoy good production for the benefit of all in society. At
18, I was a setup man for three assembly lines. The lead workers on the
line had to earn their place by demonstrating a great amount of skill. I
took over the job from someone who had it for 24 years and so I had to
learn all the short cuts quickly. From there I was promoted to managing
the inventory at age 18. Back then when the orders slowed down, the
workers were taken off the assembly line and took over jobs making the
parts. This was done so there would be no layoffs and the high skilled
workers would not be lost.
In those days, having a large inventory was a blessing that grew in
value. Companies back then did not fire and hire and then complain they
could not find qualified workers. Today highly skilled high technology
workers are fired and hired at will.
In my other factory jobs, I became one of the better spot welder but
could never touch the skills of the best ones. Their skills held for
their whole lifetime. In other jobs, I found myself out of it. I could
not grind castings without getting my fingers and hands all bloody. The
foreman had to make a special fitting for me for me to keep this job
which was a requirement phase in employment. I also ran punch presses
where you had to wear a harness to bring your arms back fast. I
eventually did not need the harness. Assembling overhead monorail
systems took alot of skill to and other jobs like it took skills to make
many jobs one man operations rather than two.
In the computer field, I was trained on the job. You forget that the
first generation of the computer industry was created by workers from
the field. There was no colleges yet that taught these skills. I
designed some of the first punch card systems and Honeywell sent me to
their corporate systems school and I as an artist with a history major
and a philosophy minor became one of the best in debugging the first
mainframe operating programs. I also sold and installed many of the
first nationwide offline communcation networks. Later BASF sent me to
more corporate classes and I became something of a disk storage experts
and later was sought out for these skills as far as China. I was with
Dysan for ten years and they had corporate classes and seminars on an
ongoing basis. They were the main innovators for disk storage devices.
With all of this company training, I was able to write about error
correction codes and saved many accounts including government accounts
thousands of dollars in the process.
In general data processing in many large corporation, the Data
Processing Manager, came from the office or production processes. Many
came from the factory floors and ran computer centers with million
dollar budget. And many knew how to save their company alot of money
just because of where they came from.
The last big job offer I had came from a software house offering me a
regional manager's job. ( I had opened several branch and regional
offices in the past including one in Canada. I also sold components and
computers to Chinese accounts. I was going to take the job until I found
out that they used green card workers from India do program and do
system s work. To me this is unethical and a sin. I did not take the
job and chose to lose everything rather than compromise my ideals
nearing the end of my life. I had friends who had lost everthing too
after giving all that they could to create the best high technology in
computers. Recently a top systems man closed down his 15 workers
operation because there was no way left to compete with foreign workers.
For about two years before my major heart attack, I was in business
with the very best person in computer repair. I could not get back to
work fast enough and we lost the business. He quit the industry
completely and chose instead different job pursuits at one time. He
maintains a church property, does accounting for some small business
accounts and drives a security car for funeral drives to the
cementaries. And he was the best I ever saw in computer troubleshooting.
I can go on and on about many others with millions of workers being
fired in the computer industry and these stories never get published.
Cleveland was once a core center for many high technology start ups but
then the "sins" of Free Trade. Another friend has the best and one of the largest local computer network cable, connector and supply business. He had about ten people working for him and kept a large stock of parts for more than ten years. He gave out free advice to those putting in networks without any hestitation. When Free Trade hit, even all his expertise did not stop the downfall of his business. His health was affected and he passed away. His wife took over and closed down the computer cable and network supply business and kept about five workers and started up a office cleaning company. Journalists like Obrien ignore examples like this where a highly skilled business is closed down by Free Trade and the workers find survival in a lower technology.
Kevin Obrien column tells me he is willing to participate in the big
lie, the "sins" of Free Trade and the continous betrayal of American
workers with the editors of major newspapers like the Cleveland Plain
Dealer leading the attack. The newspaper industry is fading away
because they do not report the many untold stories of our times.
Ray Tapajna
newsworld@fastmail.net
See related article at Masks behind masks in communication of the news.
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