As someone with a bunch of friends who had factory gigs before NAFTA and still a few today, there’s plenty of people who are happy in factory situations, you know?
It’s fair to say there’s a lot of inaccurate assumptions on the right wing side here, but factory work isn’t always a horror show. It’s obvious they want to do as much as they can to make it awful, like deregulating things and whatnot. And obviously, the infrastructure isn’t there and won’t spring up overnight. That’s no good, but the factory labor itself? Probably fine in a lot of cases.
It’s fine if and only if you have these infrastructure and regulations in place. It’s good if and only if the above plus also being a union job.
The people trying to drive this industry up again are attempting to do so while removing regulations and crippling or killing unions. The factory jobs won’t be “fine” when you’re paid a dollar an hour and have a new 13 year old coworker every week because the previous one got himself killed at work.
As someone with a bunch of friends who had factory gigs before NAFTA and still a few today, there’s plenty of people who are happy in factory situations, you know?
It’s fair to say there’s a lot of inaccurate assumptions on the right wing side here, but factory work isn’t always a horror show. It’s obvious they want to do as much as they can to make it awful, like deregulating things and whatnot. And obviously, the infrastructure isn’t there and won’t spring up overnight. That’s no good, but the factory labor itself? Probably fine in a lot of cases.
It’s fine if and only if you have these infrastructure and regulations in place. It’s good if and only if the above plus also being a union job.
The people trying to drive this industry up again are attempting to do so while removing regulations and crippling or killing unions. The factory jobs won’t be “fine” when you’re paid a dollar an hour and have a new 13 year old coworker every week because the previous one got himself killed at work.