Unemployed Constriton workers

Kunle

What hope do you think unemployed constriton workers have going forward? Most of them left school with only a junior cert, I dont really think they can blame the goverment for them being out of work, the only way the goverment could have helped them is by keeping the housing bubble going even longer. As a small island we will never need that many constriton workers again in this lifetime.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Kunle wrote: »

What hope do you think unemployed constriton workers have going forward? Most of them left school with only a junior cert, I dont really think they can blame the goverment for them being out of work, the only way the goverment could have helped them is by keeping the housing bubble going even longer. As a small island we will never need that many constriton workers again in this lifetime.

Not true from my experience, I know lots of people previously employed in construction and they all completed secondary school.

Also Ireland has as many builders as ever before- its just that at one stage they all worked abroad.

whiteonion

Kunle wrote: »

What hope do you think unemployed constriton workers have going forward? Most of them left school with only a junior cert, I dont really think they can blame the goverment for them being out of work, the only way the goverment could have helped them is by keeping the housing bubble going even longer. As a small island we will never need that many constriton workers again in this lifetime.

If these construction workers don't reskill for another career or move abroad I think many of them will not work again for many years.

flutered

whiteonion wrote: »

If these construction workers don't reskill for another career or move abroad I think many of them will not work again for many years.

me thinks that should read never.

Maj Malfunction

The NDP is a smoking pile of ashes now, we won't see any new projects coming on stream for many years. The Ulster Bank construction managers index had seen decline for every month since July 2007. Sitting around waiting for a job that's non-existent is a poor strategy

Browney7

Manufacturing industry needs to be revived big time in Ireland. Smart economy is not for everyone judging by Leaving cert results whereby only a small % of people get over 500 points although I do accept the LC is not a great measure of intelligence. Business acumen and other skills aren't really tested.

I've just always felt that a country needs to have a strong manufacturing industry. Even America the home of Capitalism recognised this by bailing out General motors and others.

Dr. Baltar

Construction.

Shea O'Meara

Kunle wrote: »

What hope do you think unemployed constriton workers have going forward? Most of them left school with only a junior cert, I dont really think they can blame the goverment for them being out of work, the only way the goverment could have helped them is by keeping the housing bubble going even longer. As a small island we will never need that many constriton workers again in this lifetime.

The days of one career are over a long time. If there is no work, you leave the country or leave your trade.
However, one thing the government could have done is enable, rather than hinder access to post-leaving cert courses.
By the way this is the second construction recession/bubble I've seen thanks to FFail....and I expect another one in 15 to 20 years.

pragmatic1

We cant compete with other countries for manufacturing. Smart economy is basically the only way forward for us. Without the pharmaceutical and IT jobs we have at the moment, we really would be finished as a country.