Workers Are Leaving Manufacturing Jobs At Record Numbers

Of course nobody wants to work in manufacturing, all the good paying union manufacturing jobs got sent to china years ago.

I guess its Russia's fault. Right msnbc losers

Fake news . There aren't in manufacturing jobs in the United States

These are manipulated statistics. At no point do they mention how many are taking manufacturing jobs, only those leaving. Someone rich is paying the media corporations to make this look like a panic issue to justify more anti-worker legislation.
Ahh! There! The puppet host just complained about the governement Covid payments spoiling these workers and waking them up.
Low and middle class jobs in America are slow death sentences to workers souls and pocket books. This is years of allowing the rich to buy up our politicians and our governement now oppresses workers to maintain profits for the Rich who actually rule us more or less.

There are factories in other countries that manage to pay and treat their workers with more respect than we do. Europe does not yet see their workers as soley possessions to be squeezed and then replaced to maximize personal profits for shareholders. We are now a class society again. Workers and Shareholders. The Shareholders no longer own the slaves, they just use them from a pool and then swap them out for fresh ones. We literally work for room and board now. Same as slaves.

How scared can you be of Covid? If you’re vaccinated, you still will not go to work?

you know . uuuhhhhh........*vocal crack.......that female be high on something

Cool, so the peasants don't want the work, what's going to happen to the billionaires business gurus who have no idea how to do peasants work?

Time for big business to respect the scum that make the product that makes billions of $$$$$$

Ive worked factory jobs for years. As a team lead I onlt made $17 an hour. The factory I work in now is $21 an hour. When we see houseing costs, and every other bill jump it makes "voluntary" overtime mandatory.

Is your rent/ mortgage paid?.......
I get that you're working at a job job not a career. , get a vocation

Bring on Richard Wolff to explain the economy!

Part of Biden plan get rid of jobs that Americans hold by lowering there wages then bring in his border jumpers to fill in jobs at lower pay rate then cut off pipe lines to raise inflation he hurting Americans and cares less good job Biden voters good job

I work in a factory now I took the job BECAUSE they bumped up the pay and bonuses to make it worth it to go in but it looks like I will be leaving soon ! You problem is simple most companies can't get out of THEIR own way being rude to employees even to the point that turn over is so bad you can offer 25 bucks a hour in Michigan and can't keep workers .......

I was an administrator in a manufacturing plant and saw how controlling management was to workers. Many got sick in their 50s and never reached retirement age. I suffered illnesses just being in the environment although I worked in an office. I was fully vested in our pension fund which netted me $220 after retirement. Later I drove a tractor trailer truck being responsible for my load 24/7 and I figured out I was making about $6 an hour with no benefits. That's when I realized what a wage slave was. As I was a teenager in the early 1970's making $5 to $6 an hour I could afford a nice apartment and a decent used muscle car. Rent was $150 a month, gas prices were around 32 cents a gallon, and health insurance was so cheap I don't even remember how much it was. In today's dollars it would take $30 an hour to come close to the same buying power I had as a teenager. I still look at our economy is based on the price of gas which has risen 10 fold since 1970. The big gap between what we should be earning if paychecks had kept up with inflation and the meager wages we now get made the billionaires of today. Many hard working people are doing ok with their freelance work or internet businesses and don't have to suffer the emotional abuse of working for big corporations. Now my modest retirement income is taking a big hit as prices rise and I have to consider how to make extra money. 95% of our rise in Social Security benefits is going to the increase in Medicaid expenses. I consider myself fortunate to have had the success I achieved and feel sad for those trying to work their way up the socioeconomic ladder of today.

We still have manufacturing jobs??

How many of these jobs started demanding that employees work excessively more hours to make up for the lost employees during the pandemic?

Hire all those illegals that Biden let in.

I suggest people cut their consumption and boycott these companies also. I live very simple and don't have to work very hard to do so. And I'm happy.

This group of employees has always been taken for granted. Yet they are the ones who manufacture everything that everyone needs.

How are people leaving what does not exist? You must be talking about overseas! There are very few factory open! That is why the store shelves are empty!!

That’s because manufacturing companies have you working side by side side in these dangerous days.these companies don’t care about social distancing…… and will fire you for being whistle blowers. This world is of the devil

Donald’s trickle down
Quarter pounder’s was to heavy

It's the system takin jobs let wake up fools

Yeah. I would quit too if wages in manufacturing dropped 10%. More proof greedy, insatiably money hungry, wealth hoarding monster corporations exploit and enslave their employees. We’re done with all their shiz.

12 hr shifts, nights, weekends, mandatory overtime, maybe 2% raises.....to all the "talking heads" in nice clothes and air conditioning. ....try it sometime!!!!

At least Bezos made a ton off trust the science.

The bottom line is never allowed to go down. Executives will run the economy into ruins in order to keep their inflated profit margins until the day they die.

Who cares I used to have respect for her now no one does. She is liar and a Corporate America media actress.

Make room for ROBOTS.

More pay less benefits.

I just started a new manufacturing job pays $17 hour to start at level 1 with great benefits and instant paid vacations

Welcome Products Made In America.
What a Joke.

If the middle class is no longer for over the past few centuries then why should anyone stay in a job that has dropped in salary.
Manufacturing is down because EVERYTHING is made in China but those products are warehoused in America for distribution.

I would like to say one thing. Thank you Joe Biden for keeping this other border open. I own a big construction company up north I hire a lot of illegal immigrants. They are a lot cheaper than paying American. Anyone can do it now

Let’s go Brandon!!

For those who want to stick in these careers and work hard, the sky is the limit at the minute.

Too repetitive. Day in day out

If you did good work they used too care and take care of you. In the 70's it started getting to be everyone's replaceable cheaply. Then they took what we knew and gave it to China

The gaslighting is subtle yet smacks you in the face.
"Partly there was the decline in unionization, Partly there was the increase of manufacturing moving to China". Just had to throw that unionization in there to tug the heartstrings of the few boomers with blindfolds on. Hmmm. Wonder if the former has to do with the latter? Midwits.

It appears that due to robots most manual labor jobs will be replaced by robots by 2030. In many sectors, it is now cheaper for a company to rent a robot then to pay for an employee and this is something that didn't exist 5yrs. ago. Robots have been around a while, but only recently has it become cheaper to rent a robot. Also, the advancement in robotics is incredible over the last 10yrs.

Modern day slavery,forced overtime,no flexibility,poor work life balance why wount they be shortage of labor

Dead end jobs

I like my factory union job the pays decent and the work ain't bad

I think a lot plant managament can work workers 70 to 80 hours a week and not have massive quits. The problem its tremble life work balance and body can take 70 to 80 hours a week long term. I worked at factory which is union limits over time to 8 hours not much people are quitting. also the get paid low middle class wage at the factory.

I remember when my factory job was sought after and had the most pay in the area

And those are the jobs they want to bring back to the U.S.? People don't want these low paying jobs that require 16 hour day shifts and 20 minute lunches? Those are factory jobs.

I’ve worked in auto manufacturing for ten years. Make 30 an hour and I hate it. My mind and body are over it. I’m over management and co workers. I would have quit years ago if not for free healthcare

Because these billion dollar companies have people work 12 hour shifts for less than 20 an hour…..and treat them like crap

Slave trade. i even feel that way as a shop owner its a industry in decline. ive been a machinist for 30 years and if i go belly up i am leaving manufacturing too.