Home Depot to Train 20,000 Vets and Youth for Construction Jobs Due to Illegal Labor Shortage – IOTW Report

Home Depot to Train 20,000 Vets and Youth for Construction Jobs Due to Illegal Labor Shortage

DANGEROUS: Businesses contending with tightened immigration policies by the Trump administration are turning to young Americans and veterans for construction jobs over illegal aliens.

 

USA Today reported Home Depot alone aims to invest $50 million to train 20,000 veterans, disadvantaged youth, and young Americans for construction work. This new course marks companies adjusting for Trump-era nationalistic economics.

Home Depot now is investing to train a new generation of Americans to work with their hands, as cheap, illegal foreign labor is becoming more scarce. This also indicates an upswing in wages for construction jobs may be on the way.  read more

18 Comments on Home Depot to Train 20,000 Vets and Youth for Construction Jobs Due to Illegal Labor Shortage

  1. remember … “back in the day”(Patent Pending) when we had Vocational High Schools? … Shop Classes where you could learn building skills?

    yeah … me neither 😉

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  2. Based on personal experiences at the Home Depot in Watertown… I’ve been economically boycotting them. They refused multiple vets and active duty military from getting the “discount”. It was years ago but I tend to carry a grudge

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  3. At least in this area (central VA), the only peepul NOT working are those how wish not to. Most of the construction companies around here hire constantly and provide training, but a large percentage of the new hires do not return for their second or third day of work. Likewise with the “plants” in the area i.e., Phillip Morris, UPS, Fed Ex et al.
    When you remove the stigma from welfare participation…..
    Amity Shlaes penned an interesting piece some time back that explained if the sheepul currently on the dole were made to stand in soup kitchen lines it would make the “dust bowl” days of these United States look like good times..

    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  4. @Thirdtwin – Gonna be a lot less BAD tuba, trumpet and accordion music blaring on the job sites now! Lemme tell ya whut BAD is really like – I’ve been in factories in Mexico where they play that shit on peaky-fcking, distorted bull-horns in an acoustically hard, concrete and steel environment. You walk outta there with a big damn headache!!

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  5. Having just sold my house and moved in the last year, I have spent a lot of time and money hiring people to clean, repair, install and rebuild parts of my house. I also had two different companies move all my “junk” that amassed over 30+ years.

    I cannot tell you how FEW of the workers from the larger companies that could actually understand English. Most of the work I had done on my house was hired using Home Advisor. I picked the small local business, called and talked to the actual people who would be doing the work, and I was more than pleased by them all.

    Then, the bigger companies. Carpet, flooring, kitchen countertops and moving companies – all south of the border workers. I nearly lost my mind.

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  6. When I need to fix things around the house I go to the local hardware store first. If they don’t have what I need I try Lowes next.
    Home Depot as a last resort.

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  7. ‘zat mean they’ll take down all the signs they have up that are not in English?

    Lol, The Rat Fink. I’ve spent more time in Otay Mesa than I would have liked. ‘Bout as close as I’d like to get.

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