Blue Collar and Skilled Trades:
America’s Super Producers Continue to see Slumping Pay Checks
National index for industrial wages suggests trades and blue collar job seekers will be in short supply in the near future.
Real wages are wages adjusted for inflation, or, equivalently, wages in terms of the amount of goods and services that can be bought. This term is used in contrast to nominal wages or unadjusted wages.- wikipedia
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While the government parasites at the Department of Labor and the other self-important bureaucrats at the countless agencies that claim to perform some ambiguous service to the tax paying workers, claim wages have gone up in the last year, as expected they are deceptive at best and liars as usual. I provided that definition of real wages to clarify beyond a shadow of a doubt to my readers that just because you have a bigger number on your paycheck you likely have less purchasing power year over year for the last 10 years regardless of your job title.
I write this content because Blue collar and skilled tradesmen are the last of the producers in this service based economy. We perform difficult jobs that require skill sets that are developed through years of dedication to continual self-improvement and on the job training that translates to experiential education. Most entry level positions in the trades are better than minimum wage but still do not provide pay commiserate with the effort. When youngsters begin their career in welding, electrical, heat and air, ect… they usually make about the same as their peers that report to call centers, perform data entry, or work in customer service positions.
Charles Fletcher of Bull Head Forge near Tulsa Oklahoma says, “Finding young guys to come in and take the same pay as their buddy that works at GNC selling supplements in the AC to learn to be a welder out here in the heat and wind and cold is hard to do. You can’t blame a young mans logic when he realizes he can go home as clean as he was when he reported to work and doesn’t have to push and pull and climb and strain all day for the same money.”
Fletcher sees a real shortage of young faces lining up to be welders. Across the board the skilled trades are not being portrayed as a road to a successful life to youngsters and the interest is simply not there for most. “The guys that gut it out and pay their dues will find that hanging in there and learning a trade will pay off, especially for these younger generations. They will be few and hard to find in twenty years.”
In the coming days I will begin providing content that reviews the failure of the education system to promote and train youngsters with vocational aptitudes, how contractors and tradesmen can protect themselves from inflation and regain control against the corrupt corporate banksters, and I will expose the parasitic government agencies (all controlled by insurance corporations) that continue to dictate policy as unelected bureaucrats that relentlessly drive down or in the very least suppress wage growth in the skilled trades. We the producers cannot simply continue to work hard at the life, at skills and personal growth while the mega conglomerates like Wal-mart and Target are propped up by the other half of the population that buys groceries with food stamps.