Re: Outsourcing is domestic terrorism

You missed the part about the Mexican work ethic in Mexico and it is not as
easy as you imagine-lots of teeny parts. I worked on headliners in another
plant but from what I heard from Visor folks "it ain't that easy". As for
manufacturing them elsewhere it is called corporate greed-in tank car lots
type greed.

"Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Automotive sun visors? Doesn't sound very high tech to me. If I am
right, I would guess that just about anyone could manufacture sun visors.
Now, if I am right, then why should anyone continue to manufacture sun
visors, if they can produce the same sun visors at a lower cost somewhere
else?

"Jim Higgins" <gordian238@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What was outsourced was production of automotive sun visors to Mexico.
The Visor side of the Southview plant (this is in Holland, MI) was not
loosing money Jerry, they were making profitable. Just not as profitable
as Johnson Controls wanted. Upper management decided that they could get
more by exporting jobs and production to Mexico. Then, in the fullness
of time, it was discovered that the Mexican work ethic was not quite what
it was here but we all know that upper management is never wrong and
everything is "proceeding according to plan". Too late for us.

As to specific details OI cannot help you on the management level cost
factors that they used other than the suspicion of those of us on the
shop floor that they were smoking some really bad crack.

"Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think what you left out is "why" did they make the decision they made?
What were the products they made, that they outsourced? Who were they
competing with on those products? What percentage of their total sales,
comes from that portion that was outsourced?

"Jim Higgins" <gordian238@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A letter I wrote to the Editor of my local paper about two years ago-it
still applies today as freshly as then.

Outsourcing is domestic terrorism

America for sale, cheap. That should have been the headline for the
story on
Johnson Controls' decision to send 1,070 U.S. jobs (885 in Holland and
185
in Glasgow, Ky.) to Mexico.

Companies that are so eager to send American jobs to foreigners in
Mexico,
India, China or wherever might well be characterized as domestic
terrorists.
The phrase "to be more competitive in the global marketplace" wears
very,
very thin when we see our co-workers, fellow American citizens, either
out
of work already or soon to be out of work, in favor of foreigners.

Folks in government, especially those in the federal government, have a
very
nice retirement package outside of the Social Security System that we
commoners have to live with. They have lost touch with real people who
have
to live with the results that NAFTA has inflicted on us.
"Washingtonese" has
little resemblance to English and tends strongly toward vague phrases
that
sound soothing such as "we are studying this great problem" or "for
every
job that may be lost 1.5 jobs are created" or "the U.S. economy will
benefit" or similar weasel phrases.

The fact remains that U.S. jobs are being sent to foreigners at a
prodigious
rate. Who is going to be able to buy products and services when
Americans
are being displaced at an ever-increasing rate by outsourcing? We are
headed
for Third World status because U.S. companies, like Johnson Controls,
are
bound and determined to do anything, repeat anything, that will boost
the
stock price another nickel or two.

If my company, Johnson Controls, lost work to another U.S. company
whose
productivity and quality was better I could understand that. I wouldn't
like
it but I could understand it and really turn myself into a pretzel to
improve my quality and productivity. That would be reasonable
competition in
the American marketplace. But to export American jobs to Mexico, and
India
and China, makes the companies that do this domestic terrorists. Think
not?
Get out here in the real work where the rubber meets the road and then
we
shall see what tune is sung then.

This is an election year and we will watch very, very closely to see
who has
the interest of American citizens at heart and who does not. We will
not
support any candidate who does not support us.

My ancestors came from Ireland, England and Germany. My wife is
Chinese.
Others of us came from Mexico, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sweden,
Italy and
many other places but we are all Americans and our jobs are being
exported
by domestic terrorists who are rapidly eroding our country's base.
NAFTA
must indeed be repudiated.

--
your best, last and only line of defense-a Cohort of Roman Heavy
Infantry









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