Word: machinist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aide; her husband Ronald was just promoted from city painter to maintenance manager at O'Hare International Airport, thus becoming the highest paid city worker in the clan ($34,000). Another daughter, Mary Ann, works for the city housing department, and she is married to a police department machinist. Roti's daughter-in-law works for the health department; her husband Bruno held a job with the police until last year, when he was convicted of extortion. Nine nieces and nephews and two cousins are city employees. Sums up Roti, whose own salary is $28,000: "They...
...spite of everything, the brothers love each other and their parents. They decide that their late father, a machinist, was "a great man" and take comfort from this belief. One says: "We're all separated, we brothers, and hardly know what one another is doing, and yet that doesn't matter, because we know one another in a bigger way, which keeps us together. Isn't that so?" Daniel answers, "Yes." And this stark, moving novel echoes that affirmative. -By Paul Gray
...machinist is the most educated, lowest paid, least appreciated of all the skilled workers, receiving barely one-half the hourly rate paid to those in the construction trades-electricians, plumbers, welders, etc. I love machine tools, but who wants to be a machinist...
Some companies do operate effective in-house training and apprenticeship programs, but the 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...
...others, especially those trained for specific auto-related jobs, the transition to the South is more difficult. "Many have skills that don't fit here," says Collins. An automotive machinist used to pushing buttons on an assembly line is not trained for the complicated work done by oil-industry machinists. White-collar workers also face problems. Detroit's Wade Cook, 48, a former railroad employee with 16 years of management experience, has sent scores of resumes to the Sunbelt without result. The difficulty, explains University of Houston Sociologist William Simon, is that the Texas economy is highly technical...