🎧 Listen: In today's episode of The Journal podcast, EricMorath discusses the impact of the Biden administration's vaccine mandate on the labor market, and a manufacturing company president explains what the mandate could mean for his business
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Jack Schron: Our culture is one in which we would encourage people to make their best individual decisions for themselves, with their families, sit down with their doctor. Even though we would encourage you to do this, we're not going to mandate it. Jack Schron: We knew that we couldn't move a two ton machine tool onto somebody's kitchen table. So the poor folks that were in production, had to stay in production. We had to figure out how we were going to do that.
Jack Schron: Now, we have some people that we know ... because we've had one-on-one conversations. That based on their religious beliefs, do not support vaccines. And some of them have never supported vaccines, period. So it's not a new epiphany that they came to. They've long held that belief. Eric Morath: I've talked to a lot of economists about this. I've talked to some workers about this. There are some people that say, I will not take a job if I'm required to have a vaccine or I'm required to go through a testing routine. But the flip side is, some economists say that there's people out there that are scared to take jobs because they don't know that the person working next to them is vaccinated.
Eric Morath: Like 50 years ago, manufacturing jobs were viewed as great jobs. They were very stable. They paid middle class wages. Where I grew up in Michigan, that meant you had a nice house in the suburbs, maybe you had a cottage on the lake. You had two cars, you had a boat. Right now, that's not reality for manufacturing, especially not a 15 or $20 an hour manufacturing job.
Speaker 6: I feel like manufacturing really has become like my best friend. I really don't want to do anything else. Like, I could see myself doing this for 25 plus years. So having this job is a once in a lifetime opportunity and it is a dream come true. Jack Schron: You get in these tough moral choices, and what do you do? Do what I become the autocrat that slams a fist on the table and says, you will do this?
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