Education has become pricier, while graduates are less prepared for jobs in either the white collar or blue collar workforce.
In today's issue of Politico, Sierra Club Chairman Carl Pope and I co-authored an op-ed on the importance of this bill to "green" America's blue collar workforce and eliminate the sweatshops on wheels.
The demand is going to bring back many of those skilled workers who left, and there will be a growing interest in the high wages on the part of new entries into the blue collar workforce.
Total blue collar workforce = Autoclave workers + PVC Compound workers + PVC Baggers + Other blue collar workers.
The total blue collar workforce (last column of tab. 3) experienced significantly increased mortality from all causes (RR = 1.55, 95% CI 1.03 2.35; 229 deaths); RRs for all tumors and for each specific cause of death considered were increased, but not significantly.
Considering overall mortality among all exposed subjects (i.e., the total blue collar workforce), the study had an estimated power of 0.80 to detect a univariate relative risk (RR) of 1.50 as significantly increased at a 0.05 level (two-sided).
Significantly increased mortality rates were observed for all causes of death among the whole blue collar workforce (RR = 1.55; 95% CI = 1.03 2.35; 229 deaths), PVC baggers (1.72; 95% CI = 1.04 2.83; 49 deaths) and PVC compound workers (1.71; 95% CI = 1.09 2.67; 72 deaths).
The numbers of workers, mean age at hiring and person-years by age for each subgroup of workers (autoclave workers, PVC baggers, PVC compound workers, other blue collar workers, and technicians and clerks) are reported in table 2. 1 Reference group Total blue collar workforce = Autoclave workers + PVC Compound workers + PVC Baggers + Other blue collar workers.
A significantly increased SMR was observed among PVC baggers (SMR = 3.77; 95% CI: 1.03 9.66) and among the total blue collar workforce (SMR = 2.27; 95% CI: 1.24 2.81), while PVC compound workers and other blue collar workers showed SMRs equal to 2.26 and 2.29, respectively (not statistically significant).
For this reason, SMRs were calculated and revealed significantly increased values among the total blue collar workforce and specifically among PVC baggers, while PVC compound workers and other blue collar workers showed more than two-fold increased SMRs (not statistically significant).
That's because Chinese officials once satisfied with foreign companies building factories in China are hitting up executives to supplement their blue-collar workforces with white-collar workers.
