There are hundred of thousands manufacturing jobs unfilled in the US right now due to lack of skilled workers, low wages and unattracted career to younger generation. Why is the US gov want to bring back manufacturing if the current industry already have a massive worker shortage?
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because that’s what they think making america great looks like i suppose
The current administration is not operating on logic.
No “worker shortage” in middle class jobs, can’t be when big layoffs in many industries all last year!
The worker shortage is a made up media trope.
There are not millions of unfilled jobs.
Try to get a job, no one is hiring.
Most graduates with degrees are struggling to get a job.
Factory jobs are a step up for people who currently make minimum wage.
Why you talk so bad english? You no have school learning?
We need jobs for illegal peoples who want come to country for jobs. So they can stay and live good.
Current administration “logic”…keep the people poor and blissfully ignorant while we secure and build even more wealth.
There are a few economic principles that play a role in defining the importance of having manufacturing in the country. In America, we learnt these the hard way, after decades of outsourcing manufacturing to China for cheap labor.
A part used to sell for 10 made in the US. The worker made $3. Then they moved it to developing countries and the item sold for 9 and the worker was paid .30¢. Now they’ll bring manufacturing back to the US, sell the product for $20 and give the worker $5. It’s a loss in purchasing power.
There is no worker shortage, light duty people who “work” in offices just don’t want to do real work.
People like me who actually work for a living want manufacturing to come back to America because I like working in manufacturing, and I’m very happy to buy something made by Americans being paid at least minimum wage.
There are very few downsides to your country being big on manufacturing. It strengthens economies in every way.
“low wages”
This is what they want, thats why they want bring those jobs back.
When Karen from hr loses her job to AI, she’s gonna need a job.
Slaves. They want slaves to do this work. They’ll throw anyone in jail for whatever reason, and then they work every day until they die.
I don’t think anyone, except maybe one or two advisors at the WH, is actually interested in bringing back manufacturing.
All the talk about “trade barrier” just mean oppening more market/less regulation for multinationals, it dosen’t have anything to do with manufacturing done in the US. And “trade balance” is just a fancy way to bend countries to buy american oil, gas and military equipment.
It sounds like a good idea if you don’t think about it too much. Trump relies on policy driven by soundbites not on reason
Because humanoid robot workers are on the horizon.
It’s not there yet but when it really starts to impact the market then you wanna make sure you have domestic facilities that can take advantage of it.
Eventually we won’t have enough factories for an unlimited labour pool.
Not to mention Trump is gutting the CHIPS Act, which is specifically intended to boost semiconductor manufacturing in US. Oh and Trump is also killing collective bargaining by government worker unions and laying off thousands, so I don’t think he really cares about US jobs.
I have considered that they want to bring back prison labor at $1/day to enrich hedge funds that own prisons, or better yet, bring back slavery.
Because what they actually want is the low skill highly paid secure factory jobs with great pensions that Americans had after WWII.. but they don’t understand they’re never coming back. Those existed because America emerged basically unscathed from the war with their industry intact, everyone else had to rebuild, and it let them rocket to the top of the global economy.
It was amazing! Heavy investment in the working class, free higher education, booming infrastructure and basically just pushing America to the top. Then the first generation to be born into this utopia and enjoy an upbringing of wealth/privilege never seen before at this kind of scale? Well they noticed something. People other than them were benefiting! Like can you imagine?! Other people were getting the shit they got, except they didn’t deserve it because.. well.. reasons.
So some of them ran for government and promised to take it all away from those lazy freeloaders (you know.. their kids). And they got elected, then they took everything away from everyone (including the ones who voted for them) and gave it to themselves. They went back and forth a few times with one government desperately trying to actually look after its people… whom would promptly vote in another for promising to take everything away from ‘other’ people and then proceeding to take everything from everyone.
And here we are today! With a nation that has truly fucked up the greatest opportunity that was ever handed to literally any group of humans to ever walk this planet, all because they couldn’t handle the notion they wouldn’t be the sole beneficiary of this new system.
Anyway. That’s why. Because it’s not about manufacturing and never was – that’s just the latest excuse from the people who kicked out the government trying to help so they could rob the people blind yet again. They’ll keep at it until Americans have had enough and vote in someone who will try and fix it… then as soon as things stabilise a new lunatic will promise to take everything from those who are ‘undeserving’ and give it to ‘you’ only for them to steal everything for themselves and their mates.
Hope that clears things up.
Our current government is only worried bout owning the libs not making actual sound judgement
Cause that’s not goal. There ain’t going to be no “jobs coming back”. That’s the excuse that everyone is pretending this administration is working towards while they dismantle the current order.
You need to do a better job of sounding like an American. Whatever AI you are using to translate the Russian is not working too good.
Why assume that manufacturing is dependent upon human workers?
Manufacturers can automate most factory floor tasks, so workers aren’t really a limiting factor. Perhaps the US will lead the world in robotics once again.
Welcome to “The Stupid”.
I sure wish people were actually answering your question lol I used to work for a manufacturing advocacy group whose main issue was trying to get the younger generation interested in manufacturing jobs. It was like pushing a rock up a very steep hill. Not to mention the impending crater when the aging workforce (51% of workers are over 49) retires. These jobs already exist and no one wants to do them. Why does anyone think adding more will change that.
They think it’s the 1950s.
It sounds like a great idea until you stop and think it through. Young people don’t want to actually do work, especially physical dirty work. There are shortages in the skilled labor departments all across the country. This fantasy that we would be employing millions of people to fill this new manufacturing labor boom is exactly that. Even on the software engineering side there is a shortage of skilled workers, this is why the H1 visa program is so important to that industry. America has the numbers but are lacking the skills for the new age.
Tons of eager labor pools in the Midwest.. some people here are driving 60 miles both ways to put in a 12 hour shift. It’s ridiculous. We need more factories here.
It’s not a shortage it’s people don’t want to work a shit job for shit pay and benefits.
I’m assuming you’re talking about a shortage skilled workers. Remember what Tim Cook said a few years ago. It’s not the cheap labor that keeps the iPhone assembly in China, it’s the skilled workers in China.
Probably more robot factories stateside that don’t need many people to make it all go.
The Right thinks the majority of people on welfare programs and unemployment can do those jobs, which I probably agree with at least halfway. Also they’ve been saying forever that fast food jobs are intended to be temporary employment for teenagers, so there needs to be somewhere for people without special skills to work that isn’t fast food.
Because there isn’t a shortage for manufacturing jobs. My friends work manufacturing and I applied to several plants and none of them responded. People here on reddit are mostly higher education liberals so you don’t see people who don’t go to college here. Manufacturing jobs also don’t have low wages, that’s a myth. Manufacturing is THE ONLY job you can get straight out of high school that pays over $20/h. The only manufacturing plants that have low wages and nobody wants to work there are the shitty ones that pay nothing in bad areas that employ illegal immigrants.
We can just let immigrants come in amd work.
Maybe a little conspiracy oriented… But i think thats why the crackdown on abortion, minimum age work limits, etc.. They want to force more babies to be born and make it legal for them to work at age 10+.
These factories will flock to states with more babies and bad labor laws. Because they know when you have kids you cant afford, you’ll send them to work.
Maybe romanticizing manufacturing jobs as well paid and stable. Doesn’t seem to hold true anymore.
There are no jobs
They want the facilities, and they want to automate them using robotics.
But what they really want has nothing to do with bringing manufacturing back and more to do with bringing something much more sinister, manufacturing a new 1984 only changing the name to 2025.🐂🐃🐄🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Because very soon robotics and AI will replace workers and the cost of labor in the US will be so low it would be cheaper than producing things overseas. This is the only correct answer.
Because Trump is pandering to a bunch of people nostalgic for the pre-robotics economy… Who blame immigrants and foreigners for not being able to make 50 bucks an hour turning a wrench on an assembly line.
Make 1950s America Great Again!
There’s no worker shortage, just businesses to cheap to train skilled workers. There are plenty of people that would work for decent pay and benefits. But companies don’t want to invest in that. Manufacturing jobs left mainland America 30 years ago because greedy shareholders and business owners wanted cheap labor, lower taxes, and ceaseless quarterly profits. Ever wonder why CEOs who have a bad quarter or 2 get axed…this is what we deserve for not holding our representatives responsible and letting lobbying groups roam the halls of Congress buying endless votes. This is what happens when we wage endless wars in the name of freedumb and have pork barrel spending with every new administration and runaway inflation because the FED won’t stop printing money for the ever growing military industrial complex. The average American can’t be bothered with educating themselves about history, economics and politics and fighting the greed and evil in society, when they are so busy trying to make ends meet and are plugged into whatever the latest tech is that’s tracking them and propagandizing them. Anymore, we live as nothing more than technological slaves in a surveillance capitalist society fighting each other because that’s what they tell us to do.
This is an argument for fundamental reforms of the welfare system for able-bodied and able-minded people.
Because it has noting to do with economic reality, it’s just what the sheep want to hear!
It depends on where you are. Sometimes entire towns are totally destitute because the factories all left decades ago.
They aren’t bringing back manufacturing. All those jobs will eventually be automated. Trump is just finding excuses to rob and loot the economy, as every GOP admin has done since 1980.
Conservative American economists believe that America’s inability to manufacture certain things leaves it vulnerable in a global conflict. They want to subsidize manufacturing of those goods in America. They also think that the America can control outcomes between states better than it can globally.
The endgame of American capitalism is robots and slaves.
Even George Carlin pointed out however many decades enough:
“They” want employees just smart enough to operate the machines but stupid enough not to ask questions
Because 80 year olds in power still think it’s the 80s.
We can’t do a total war economy. Which is what globalization was designed to prevent.
The US doesn’t. The cheeto in chief is delusional.
Because competition drives wages up.
If a factory opens up in your town they are going to have to compete with say Walmart for labor. At some point that Walmart is going to have to raise wages to stay functioning because why would anyone work at Walmart when they can package medical supplies for more money. This goes on untill pay is high enough that people either move there or the people that are unemployed by choice decide that the compensation is enough to pick up a day job.
This effects basically every business in the area for the same reason, why would anyone work at McDonald’s when the Walmart in the same parking lot will just pay you more.
It’s a talking point. The ones talking are either not informed or from a by-gone era when manufacturing & coal mining where supposedly good paying jobs. Trump’s brain is stuck in the 1950’s when the KKK, segregation, & cheap burgers were popular.
There’s an interesting documentary called Two American Families that helped me understand the whole manufacturing fantasy.
It follows 2 families from 1991-2024, so I recommend watching the whole thing cuz the evolution of this mindset is interesting, but if you watch just the first 6-10 minutes it gives you an idea of what people are expecting from the concept and the impact it had on people to lose those types of jobs back in the day.
They took “if you build it, they will come” literally
There is no worker shortage from what I see I was a welder st a shipyard last year and everyone except for one on my crew is unemployed
Hardest 21 bucks an hour we ever made and we’re all wishing for it back
It’s pretty wild. We have only 4% unemployment, which is considered very low. The US is about 4.2% of the world’s population, but we consume 25% of global output. We are also a relatively wealthy country, so even our typical mass retailer consumer buys more stuff than other countries buy US goods.
Someone told me the other day to stop being such a doomsayer, because we have 350 million people here. I realized it was pointless to argue with them, because they have no concept of the math. You could pay a bunch more (and raise prices) but we simply still don’t have enough people to manufacture all that we consumer, not to mention the supply chain issues.
Because the Christian fascists want the males in the factories and the females having babies and staying home. Apparently this is the only way they could fulfill their ‘vision’.
Because no one talks about underemployment and bullshit jobs. People who have skills that could be put to better use except for the lack of vision and knowledge of the managerial class.
Young people need jobs we are all struggling are you on earth? You seem too rich to understand. You must come from rich family and not have to have job or work
They’re doing away with child labor laws.
With the elimination of the Department of Education they will push for more privatized education and the cost of education will go up.
Only the wealthy will be able to send their kids to school.
Everyone else will have to send their kids to work.
Work force shortage solved.
Trump is a moron
They want to bring back the jobs and get the quality of workers they used to get, but only pay minimum wage with no benefits. They want workers who take pride in the fact that the company shareholders and officers are billionaires while they are owned by the company store.. they want it to be like it was when Rockefeller and Carnegie were running things.
It’s not a worker shortage. It’s a pay shortage. People don’t want to work – at a loss. There are more people than jobs and that allows employers to make applicants compete for lower pay just to get something.
Quite simply because with global tensions on the rise, the less dependent your country has to be on the global market, the better.
You say there’s a massive worker shortage for American manufacturing, but massive compared to what? There is a worker shortage, but it isn’t massive enough to shift the wage needle and inspire high school grads to forgo the college debt pipeline and go entry level at a factory.
Yes, driving up the cost of labor by driving up the demand for laborers would be felt across the board. But given that our country has been living well outside its means for the past two decades off of chinese exploitation, the sooner we can put the hurt of transition on, the less it will hurt later. Americans have been deluded into thinking that they’re roughing it. Standard of living should be so much worse right now than it is, and that’s because we’re robbing the future to finance the present.
It’s all lip service.
Convenient excuse to pander to his already gullible cult. “We’re putting America first” he says while he purposely destroys the stock market so he and his billionaire buddies can buy as low as possible
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