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...skilled labor force is eroding on two fronts. Young people going to work are choosing, or being steered into, white-collar jobs outside of factories. At the same time, experienced journeymen, many of whom learned their trades during World War II, are retiring at a rapid rate. The U.S. Labor Department estimates that there will be an average of 31,000 new skilled labor openings for machinists and machine operators annually until 1990. But only 2,300 new workers qualify for such jobs each year...
American industry must bear much of the blame for failing to hire and train enough skilled workers. Some big companies have found it easier to hire away journeymen from other firms rather than develop their own. Other firms have simply been shortsighted. During downturns in the auto industry, apprentices have been laid off to enable companies to keep their fully trained men at work...
...cost is high. At Jenkins Bros, in Bridgeport, Conn., it takes an estimated $20,000 and up to four years of on-the-job training to develop a journeyman machinist. Cincinnati Milacron, the nation's largest machine toolmaker (1980 sales: $816 million), cranks out no more than ten journeymen machinists a year from its own apprenticeship program...
...McDonald who wrote the band's first major hit in two years, Takin ' It to the Streets, and helped change the Doobies from journeymen to super stars. McDonald's sprightly, airy tunes telescoped neatly with Templeman's cushy production. The results had hints of funk and disco, discreet jazz inflections and uninsistent horn breaks, and sounded like contemporary nightclub music. McDonald, who professes vast admiration for R & B luminaries like Marvin Gaye and Sam and Dave as well as tunesmiths like Burt Bachrach, says, "I like to write hits. My biggest reason for writing a song...
...Watson decided to make golf his career before he graduated from Stanford in 1971. By then the PGA had established a qualifying school in which the pros have to survive a hair-raising Shootout before earning the right to compete on the tour. After that they become "rabbits," harried journeymen who must scramble through early morning rounds to qualify for each individual tournament. Freedom from this grind is granted only to those who win a tournament or become one of the top 60 money winners...