“A job in industry is also now harder to attain. Modern #factories are high-tech, run by #engineers and #technicians. In the early 1980s #BlueCollar assemblers, machine operators and repair workers made up more than half of the #manufacturing workforce.

Today they account for less than a third. #Whitecollar professionals outnumber blue-collar factory-floor workers by a wide margin. Even once obtained, a #FactoryJob is far less likely to be unionised than in previous decades, with membership having fallen from one in four workers in the 1980s to less than one in ten today.

In order to find the modern equivalent of such jobs, we looked for #employment with the same traits. What offers decent #pay, #unionisation, requires no #degree and can soak up the male workforce?

The result: mechanics, repair technicians, security workers and the skilled trades.”

<https://archive.md/L1J7W> (paywall) / <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/06/10/factory-work-is-overrated-here-are-the-jobs-of-the-future>

Diary of a Future Politician

Len is a factory worker in rural USA. He is laid off. He joins a new democracy movement. At first, he is a reluctant volunteer. But he starts to see how this TDG can actually work:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=29&id=148

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#bluecollar #worker #Union

"Diary" is my first TDG novel of average Americans building a new democracy.

The Dropkick Murphys just dropped your summer fight song.

The song is titled “Who Will Stand With Us?”

For close to 30 years DKM has written songs for me but this one is for you.

It’s time to stand up and fucking fight.

#DKM #Punks #BlueCollar

Lecture: Artist Sam Wallman’s research into the Pink and Green Bans movement celebrating the 1970s coalition of #bluecollar union workers and LGBTIQA+ people.

#GreenBans = strike action for conservation or environment)
#PinkBans = work stoppages, industrial bans by unionised #constructionworkers in the 1970s in defence of persecuted #lgbtiqa+ people assisting their emerging gay rights movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJg4H2iCdTw

ALL OUT - Pink Bans & Blue Collars (NSW BLF) https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/08/28/257511/nla-acquires-wallmans-all-out-pink-bans-and-blue-collars/

https://linktr.ee/ourmembersbeunlimited

https://www.samwallman.com/

#art #illustration #samwallman #Bluecollar #BuildersLabourers #ConstructionWorkers #greenbans #labormovement #organize #pinkbans #solidarity

Leonard Pash: American Hero or American Fool?

Len gets laid off from his factory job. To occupy some time, he joins a new democracy movement.

So, in your opinion, is he a hero or is he a fool?

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=18&id=243

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#bluecollar #worker #union

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 / 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹𝘀 -

Daniels's first poetry reverie on life in Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s as the auto industry slows; not commentary, but nostalgic close-ups of characters and streets, poignant in its plainness and soot.

#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #3words #jimdaniels #placeseveryone #detroit #autoindustry #workers #bluecollar #poetry #nostalgia #memoir

#BlueCollar workers #WearOurBoots
We don't lick them

#FuckFascists #EndOligarchy #FuckTrump

🤠 :progresspride_i_flag: 👷 👩‍🏭 👨‍🍳 👩‍🌾

#gay #lgbtq #queer #bluecollar #workingclass

Top Cities for Blue-Collar Jobs in India
https://freejobsnearme.in/top-cities-for-blue-collar-jobs-in-india/ #bluecollar #jobs #JobsInIndia

How do we bridge the gap between blue-collar and white-collar workers, building a diverse coalition within the labor movement? #Unions can unite different occupations, overcoming tensions to represent the #WorkingClass. #HoosLeft #Labor #BlueCollar #WhiteCollar #Solidarity

Diary of a Future Politician

Len Pash lost his job as a factory worker in rural USA. To pass some time, he joins a new democracy movement. At first, he is a reluctant volunteer. But he becomes an ardent supporter:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=29&id=148

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#bluecollar

#GenZ is interested in #bluecollar #work—but not necessarily #manufacturing

https://www.fastcompany.com/91319434/gen-z-is-interested-in-blue-collar-work-but-not-manufacturing-jobs

“We are at the point at which #economic #policy even on the left is being discussed in terms of the small group of #workers who are men working in classic #blue-collar #jobs.” adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...

“The story of automation in the US is that it has mostly impacted on manual workers in manufacturing. For example, factory employees — such as carmakers — performing routine tasks have lost their jobs to robots — or lower-cost Asian competitors.

#IndustrialAutomation has tended to affect lower-skilled, #BlueCollar jobs in the “#rustbelt” heartlands and small-town, less-educated communities in the south and midwest.

But a recent study from the #BrookingsInstitution suggests that the communities most exposed to AI-driven job dislocation will be #WhiteCollar information workers. The researchers studied the usage of #OpenAI’s #GenerativeAI tools across more than 1,000 occupations and mapped this against where those jobs were most commonly located.

Their analysis suggests that many #coders, #lawyers, #FinancialAnalysts and #bureaucrats in cities such as San Jose, San Francisco, Durham, New York and Washington DC might want to rethink their futures. But #NonOffice-bound #workers in places such as Las Vegas, Toledo, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Indiana may be less exposed to AI disruption.”

My observation since 2022 when #ChristopherHohn an influential shareholder decided to *speak out* about “reducing its head count and paying (hi-tech) workers less”. [1]

This is the decade where extreme (cost) pressure will be forced on White collar workers by the introduction of AI.

<https://archive.md/YqF03> / <https://www.ft.com/content/04343a69-8204-493c-b8c6-edfbd4057199> (paywall)

[1] <https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/11/15/billionaire-hedge-fund-investor-urges-alphabet-to-cut-costs-no-justification-for-salaries-that-are-too-high/>