By like a dollar or two an hour. Not to say that those jobs aren't important for the local economies of small towns where, say, a paper mill is big employer. But they aren't going to magically be high paying. They're going pay as little as the bosses think they can get away with, unless the workers organize, which given the precarious nature of manufacturing work these days, they're often reluctant to do.
They would be high paying compared to working at Wal-Mart or Home Depot.
Yeah but limited to maintaining the automated assembly lines. And sentenced to life in prison if they decide to go Luddite and smash up the robots.
By like a dollar or two an hour. Not to say that those jobs aren't important for the local economies of small towns where, say, a paper mill is big employer. But they aren't going to magically be high paying. They're going pay as little as the bosses think they can get away with, unless the workers organize, which given the precarious nature of manufacturing work these days, they're often reluctant to do.