Help Wanted: US must fill lots of ships-and-chips jobs to beat China
American workers in the race to stay in front of China in front and center. Not enough of them. Jobs are not filled from developed semiconductor documents until Drydocks, where the US Navy’s warships were built. Ships and chips are both in crisis.
And no, AI alone is not the answer.
Navy secretary John Phelan, July 16 Detroit, “We spent the last 10 years by teaching coding. We should spend the next 10 years to teach people how to use their hands.” He said.
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Shipfitters, Patter, Super conductive process integration managers and semiconductor equipment technicians, which will allow the US to defeat China. Both ships and chips rely on touch labor, albeit in very sophisticated factories and documents.
President Donald Trump understands this. “Every policy of the Trump administration is designed to remove the American worker, to encourage large paid, blue -collar jobs, and to rebuild the industrial foundation of our nation.” He said.
Now you will no longer see the blue collars: Black T -shirts, plaid flakes, white clean room “rabbit sets” and Polos engineers. But the foundations are the same. This critical labor consists of men and women who constitute technical expertise and develop to do the work with a crane or lithography machine.
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Here is the striking problem. Although both ship and chip sectors explode with emergency programs and new opportunities, the United States as a nation has devaluated transactions and pays the price. Due to the decades of globalism of the production sector, the decline of labor was so sharp that the US is at risk of national security and economic dominance.
Today, only 3% of the American population works in production compared to 9% during the Cold War. Covid-19 hit hard. Texas, Florida and Georgia have added enough production to increase before pandemic employment levels, but almost half of the US states still have production sums than 2019.
Unless reversed, the decrease in the production of labor may damage the position of America.
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You already know that the American navy is smaller than China. The navy’s own shipyards need to rent 250,000 new workers for maintenance, construction and repair in the next decade. Add new submarines, aircraft carriers and shipbuilders trying to accelerate and threaten the maritime dominance against China.
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The priority number 1 is paid. Trump said that the wages of blue -collar workers increased at the fastest rate in 60 years. The wages of welders in nuclear submarines must be much higher than fast food and distribution trucks. It’s not just the entry -level jobs. Shipyards should protect the experienced Shitfitters, which are ready to step as a foreman and to increase the talent pool for hundreds of large suppliers. The wider plan is a “nation as a shipyard” with a combination that touches the new labor pools to make ship modules where there is plenty of labor.
The US share of global semiconductor production decreased from 40% to 12% in 1990 in 1990. With 33% growth in semiconductor business by 2030, the gap between business openings and qualified candidates will fill the position of 146,000 positions. More workers are required for both commercial semiconductors and advanced composite chips used in defense electronics.
These are not your daily, mass -produced silicone chips; Imagine multi-layered chips that give power to information systems for satellites, F-16 fighters, radars, Apache helicopters and more. And many are smaller than a grain of sand. An advanced lyrhicum, Maryland, Foundry alone will rise to four times by 2030 – if they can hire.
The good news is that St. According to Louis Fed, production begins a resurrection. Investing in new facilities has doubled since 2022. Special capital, which aims to modernize in the shipyards, can provide productivity and continuous profit. A Big Beautiful invoice is expanding access to Pell Grants, which can cover at work. Lori Chavez-Deremer, the secretary of the worker, sees business creators in the United States as “back to the center of our economic agenda” from an aviation composite manufacturer in Utah to a microelectronics Fab in Idaho.
Trump likes to say “incredibly hardworking men and women of our country”. Remember, in the front ranks of the race with China. American welfare – and security – depending on the workers of America.
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