JOBS?

HERE IS THE FUTURE 

Of Jobs in America?  I just watched a PBS documentary about Jobs in America over the past 20 or so years.  What's missing in the whole picture is there is no protection for the non union Workers and in the South especially Unions have a bad name.  Why?

Propaganda.  I can give first hand experience on WHY unions are not exactly the best answer.  See Unions go out of their way to protect Due's payers.  That can become a bad thing.  See in my case of the EMS Union I saw how bad apples are kept in the barrel when they should be tossed out.. UNIONS only protect dues payers, we need labor laws that protect everyone.  Workers who work for large or small companies, everyone needs protection from unreasonable employer demands, unreasonable employer legal protections, and the unreasonable way workers are kept poor! The full time favorites get overtime while part time hourly wager earners are sent home. 

Benefits should be given to everyone.  Why can't we have a Workers Benefit Pool like Medicare.  It comes out of wages, and it covers sick pay, vacation pay, family leave, health care, and additional training costs, unemployment benefits, and life insurance.  Even self employed could get into the pool also.  I was self employed for many years so each year when I did my taxes I had to pay self employment SS, Fed and State taxes.  So A pool where everyone is eligible to enroll is the way to go.  It could even cover ILLEGALS who could be given a Resident SS#.  

This plan would help with the illegals who don't pay taxes...And the bottom line is the more tax payers we have the better.  WHY are there so many unfilled jobs currently?  I can tell  you part of it....See what is happening is this Employers are hiring people part time.  This means you are not eligible for any benefits, as listed above.  NOT only that but you are not guaranteed enough hours to make a living on.  Its almost like you're a temp.  If sales or contracts get slack you are simply told "don't come in."  How can you pay your rent or buy food for your family if you're  on an as needed basis?

So when these companies cry foul on the workers not coming back it's due to this...my son got caught up in the covid lay offs, he had 2 part time jobs...one he lost in March  he as a server in a high end local restaurant.  His second job was overnight clerk at a Convenience Store.  So when covid came along he lost the servers job when the State closed down all eateries, then the city put in a curfew of 11 pm.  That was to stop bars from serving crowds, but it meant his 10 pm to 7 am job was gone too...so they eliminated the overnight shift.  

When his unemployment was cut short by 3  months by our ignorant governor trying to force workers back to work, those jobs didn't exist any more! They never brought back the 3rd shift where he had worked and the restaurant opened up with a skeleton crew and that's how it stayed...There is not enough people eating out and dining in...so they want to rehire Part Time...that means they can call you on a slow day and say "don't come in...call me tomorrow"...And that's exactly what he found...when he got hired to work a retail Gig, and it's just that a Gig.  Scheduled to work shows up to work and told to go  home 2 hrs later because business is Slow....how can anyone make a living on that kind of unstable unreliable job?

So he quit! Stupid but that's what he did...My son has never wanted to work in the field of his degree,  Biology.  Don't ask me why I can see lots of ways to use that degree but he only sees being stuck in a lab,  with a bunch of nerds.  Only highly skilled technology jobs are on the rise.  Factory jobs are being replaced with robotics so mechanical engineers, computer programmers,  along with a lot of software engineers is where the growth is currently.  Health care jobs are mostly at the service level.  I wish he would go for Physical Therapists but he had no motivation...He says it's a dead end...

Every job is a dead end but any job puts food on the table but no guarantees.