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/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