Word: machiniste
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...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...
...machinist at the Ursus tractor factory, twelve miles outside Warsaw. Although both have joined Solidarity, they could not be regarded as dissidents or malcontents. Says Krzysztof: "One shouldn't complain too much. I enjoy my work." Maria points out that a decade ago they were far worse off, living in a single attic room that they had obtained only by agreeing to care for their elderly landlady. Since then, Maria has gone to work to supplement the family income, which now totals 15,000 zloty a month ($500). The factory helped them get a three-room apartment on Ursus...
...Ultimately," predicts Harley Shaiken, a former Detroit assembly-line machinist who now works as an industrial consultant at M.I.T., "retraining will not be possible, because there will...