Nick Pinchuk, president and chief executive officer of Kenosha-based Snap-on Inc., said at a recent IndustryWeek Best Plants Conference in Milwaukee that manufacturing careers are rejected by Americans because of a lack of respect for the value of the jobs.
“So why do people eschew these jobs, these technical careers?” Pinchuk asked. “The reason is, increasingly, if you listen to the rhetoric about manufacturing and technical degrees, things like welding, machine programming and so on, they’re viewed as the consolation prize of our society,” he said. “You see, we’ve lost the respect for the dignity of work.”
Read IndustryWeek’s account of Pinchuk’s comments here.
