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...today, the face of blue-collar skill is aging. Small tool shops cannot replace craftsmen as they retire. Larger machinery manufacturers cannot find willing younger men to train in order to expand production and grow. West Coast aerospace giants like Boeing and Lockheed constantly raid each other's work forces in the hunt for skilled people. At a tune when one in 13 U.S. workers is unemployed, jobs by the hundreds of thousands in many of the economy's most vital sectors are going begging for the lack of trained people...
...situation has improved somewhat since then, and an insulted O'Neill drew a comparison: "I still live in the same neighborhood I did as a young boy," said the Massachusetts Congressman, who lives just around the corner from his childhood home, a two-family frame house in blue-collar North Cambridge. He huffed that he would never call a President a demagogue, adding, "I assume in the future he will have the same respect for the speakership." Maybe so. Reagan called his fellow fighting Irishman the next day and smoothed things over, one poor boy to another...
...biggest daily, the News lost that title to the Wall Street Journal (circ. 1.9 million) in 1979. Tonight was supposed to halt the News's circulation losses (450,000 since 1975) by adding "up-scale" readers and advertisers to the morning tabloid's traditional blue-collar audience. A flotilla of special sections and dozens of new feature writers and columnists were deployed under Clay Felker, 52, the founder of New York and New West. Said Robert M. Hunt, president and publisher of the News: "This is an extraordinary undertaking intended to make a great newspaper even greater...
...result is gross underinvestment in creating the on-the-job skills necessary for industrial success. Blue-collar workers are traditionally trained on the job, but with today's high turnover rates no firm wants to invest in training its work force since there is a very high probability that the workers will soon leave for another job. For each firm it is cheaper to bid, with higher wages, a skilled worker away from other firms, but this obviously does not work for the economy as a whole. The result is a perpetual shortage of skilled blue-collar workers whenever...
...extent, that's true. When she was the House athletic secretary, Photo lived in sweats. Almost every day she would collar unsuspecting Winthropians in the dining hall to play golf or volleyball or basketball, with a look half peppy, half plaintive. And even when she found enough volunteers. Photo went to the games to cheer them on--and bag participation points for Winthrop in the process...