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Orange Blooded [2867]
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Commerce Department wants 1M women in construction industry
May 24, 2024, 7:34 AM
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Whether the women want to be or not.
The irony is that these leftists who want this would argue that a young lady who desires to go into construction should start gender transitioning immediately.
Commerce Department wants 1M women in construction industry
BY MIKE HEUER
UPI.COM
The U.S. Department of Commerce launched its Million Women in Construction Community Pledge on Tuesday to encourage more construction companies to hire more women.
Federal investment is creating a construction boom across the country that is increases job opportunities for construction and trade workers, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in an online announcement.
“Women make up less than 11% of jobs in construction and only 4% in skilled trades,” Raimondo said.
“Many of these are good-paying, quality jobs you can get without a college degree,” Raimondo said. “Women deserve equal opportunity for these jobs.”
She said an “industrywide commitment” is needed to achieve the goal of putting a million women to work in construction and skilled-trades positions on construction sites.
“I’m calling on everyone – contractors, labor unions [and] trade organizations – to join our community pledge to … overcome barriers faced by women and underserved communities in construction and the trades,” Raimondo said.
Representatives of seven of the nation’s largest construction firms have signed on to the pledge.
Those entities are Baker Construction, Gilbane Building Co., McKissack & McKissack, Mortenson, Power Design, Suffolk and Shawmut Design and Construction.
The initiative comes as the number of women employed in the construction industry is among the highest with 1.3 million working in various positions.
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Re: Commerce Department wants 1M women in construction industry
May 24, 2024, 7:38 AM
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Yeah but this leftist trash also considers any man in a dress to be a woman so its not like they have any grasp of reality anyway.
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Oculus Spirit [98831]
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And 15yo kids working construction in Alabama
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May 24, 2024, 7:39 AM
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The labor shortage is real. You must increase labor to deflate dollars. Other option is to not spend dollars, but that can only be forced by hard times.
So kids, women, illegals work away.
This has everything to do with inflation. Politics is just window dressing.
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Re: And 15yo kids working construction in Alabama
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May 24, 2024, 9:34 AM
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Yup. But the MAGA dipsh!ts will of course politicize it because they politicize everything and desperately want the world to be simple. Mind, the left has always had a simplistic economic view too. Rich people are bad, and all we really need to do to live in a world of milk and honey and plenty for all is turn them upside down and shake the change out of their pockets like they're piggy banks. For the good of all, of course. But when conservatives become economic nincompoops, we're just trapped between crashing waves of stupid.
God forbid we talk about economic concepts in terms of market forces instead of political ones.
I am increasingly convinced that successful future societies will allow only line-item voting on subjects for which those allowed to vote on it have attained and demonstrated a basic functional level of knowledge. You want to get to have an opinion on something: educate yourself on it first. Human civilization has gotten way too complicated to allow ignorant people to have an opinion on things with which they know nothing. I mean, what business do I have of regulating medical research, or establishing safety regulations on a nuclear reactor?
But that's the world we're living in today. There's 500 examples of this every day on this very site. It's like watching Neanderthals try to figure out the controls of a 747. And that doesn't end well.
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Good post. So much fake science & statistics with fake experts.
May 24, 2024, 9:52 AM
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And political media to reinforce lies and stupidity.
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Oculus Spirit [98831]
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The left is no better. Pretending illegal immigrants are refugees, or
May 24, 2024, 5:56 PM
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just want to live the "American dream". The left decries the rich while winking and nodding away. MAGA also is full of rhetoric against the very things we depend on for their own livelihood.
It's just a bad situation.
I think history will one day show America, this past century, since WW2, has become the planet's largest empire in history. Not large by land, or population, or even resources, but in terms of LABOR, no empire has come close to the global level of human labor America controls today. We run a global economic empire. Much cleaner, safer, and more fruitful than a military/territorial empire. But it is still prone to the problems all successful empires eventually confront. THEMSELVES.
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Re: Commerce Department wants 1M women in construction industry
May 24, 2024, 7:45 AM
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That's good. Opportunity is good. Nobody is forced.
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I dont understand this part:
May 24, 2024, 7:50 AM
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“Women deserve equal opportunity for these jobs.”
Is there some concerted effort by the construction industry to discriminate??
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All-TigerNet [13661]
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Great example. It reminds me of many years ago when I worked for a large Corp
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May 24, 2024, 9:41 AM
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and anytime our division posted a position for hiring we would receive a "minorities and women are underrepresented in your career field" letter. Therefore, they were to get "special" consideration for the position.
At that time, 50% of women that applied were hired and 75% of minorities that applied were hired. White men stood at around 9%. So, basically corporate based their desires off of the demographics of the country, with zero regard for the demographics of the actual applicants.
When this fact was brought to their attention; the "persuasive" letters stopped coming.
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Re: I dont understand this part:
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Probably to an extent. I see a lot of sexually harrassed women in that industry and lawsuits, whether warranted or not.
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You "see"...? What experience do you have "in that industry"...? Pablum.***
May 24, 2024, 9:00 PM
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Re: Commerce Department wants 1M women in construction industry
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May 24, 2024, 2:27 PM
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Having worked after high school in construction among ironworkers, I would say most of these men would welcome women in the workplace, but I'm not sure the women would feel welcome. That's a tough crowd.
I did manual labor in the local paper mill during the summers while at Clemson and worked with a tough as nails petite young woman who wanted to make a good wage.
She was very motivated and I respected her work ethic.
Any woman that wants to work a "dirty job" should have that opportunity provided she is physically up to the task as some of these jobs are quite physical, potentially dangerous and often truly dirty.
I have no problem encouraging companies to hire willing and capable women in the construction crafts, but have a huge problem if this is to be a prelude to quotas or punishment for a company not reaching a certain benchmark.
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Some of the best welders I ever worked with were women... As to ironworkers,
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May 24, 2024, 2:39 PM
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yes, that's generally the roughest bunch on most any construction site. I use to weld for them, too.
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Re: Some of the best welders I ever worked with were women... As to ironworkers,
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May 24, 2024, 2:52 PM
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My skin became much tougher after the summer spent dodging the smack talk from the ironworkers.
It was incessant.
I also learned that while they were extraordinarily good dishing it out, that they were not very amenable to taking any guff from "college boy."
It was a very good learning experience and I came to appreciate those guys for their skills.
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I earned acceptance quick 'monkeying' up a column and walking a beam. I will
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May 24, 2024, 2:58 PM
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say my body fat factor had to be single digits back then.
Lashing off and hanging upside down to do overhead welds 40' up earned some respect, too.
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Yeah, well I want 1M male
May 24, 2024, 7:12 PM
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teachers in place by next Wednesday and another 1M male nurses. Can we do that?
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