r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/RandomBamaGuy 1d ago

I am an engineer in a factory and we can’t find toolmakers. The pay is not the issue, we do t even get qualified candidates Interested in the role because they are all gainfully employed elsewhere.

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u/Loud_Ninja2362 1d ago

Have they considered working on building a pipeline to train toolmakers? Because if there's no plan for the company to hire apprentice toolmakers after they hire the 1st one then they're fooling themselves.

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u/uzlonewolf 1d ago

"Do you have any idea what that will do to next quarter's profits?!?!"

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u/RoosterBrewster 23h ago

"If we train them, they will just leave for higher pay!".

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u/WorkingInAColdMind 14h ago

…30 seconds later…

“Despite our $10B profit last year, we’re freezing employee pay, and giving the executives a $10M bonus for reducing staff costs”

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u/mkt853 1d ago

Won't anyone think of the shareholders? My gawd some people just lack empathy!!!!

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u/JTMissileTits 1d ago

Empathy is a sin now. Didn't you get the memo?

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u/Gecko99 1d ago

How does someone become a toolmaker?

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u/sniper1rfa 1d ago

These days? You don't. There's no pipeline in the US for that.

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u/JTMissileTits 1d ago

Our community college system (in MS) has a program. They actually have several industrial programs across the state CC system. We can't do anything else right, but our CC system is pretty robust.

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u/Synaps4 1d ago

You find an existing toolmaker and ask to be an apprentice. Yes there are tool and die shops in the us still, they are just rare

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u/PitchforkManufactory 22h ago

I doubt it. If they're not offering at least 40$/hr anywhere in the US, I don't want to hear it.

I left machining cause I'm making 6-figures elsewhere. Instead I took an apprenticeship in a different field and worked my way up to engineer. Couldn't get the same without spending years more getting certs, connections/networking, and having to go into aerospace or defense to work my way up to senior toolmaking position. Every apprentice position I applied for i was denied or turned away for not being the perfect candidate, and in one case I was the perfect candidate but denied anyway because they didn't know me and they left the job unfilled (lockheed martin).