I told John Stoner outsourcing would not last long.

In 2010, over 5.5 million cars were produced in Germany, twice the 2.7 million built in the United States. Average compensation (a figure including wages and employer-paid benefits) for autoworkers in Germany was 48.97 Euros per hour ($67.14 US), while compensation for auto work in the United States averaged $33.77 per hour, or about half as much as in Germany, all according to 2007 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For Germany-based auto producers, the U.S. is a low-wage country.

Despite German companies’ relatively high labor costs in their home markets, these firms are quite profitable.

http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/tale-two-systems

National Coalition of Homeless says:

Factors contributing to wage declines include a steep drop in the number and bargaining power of unionized workers; erosion in the value of the minimum wage; a decline in manufacturing jobs and the corresponding expansion of lower-paying service-sector employment; globalization; and increased nonstandard work, such as temporary and part-time employment (Mishel, Bernstein, and Schmitt, 1999).

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/why.html

and they say unions are the problem…

Reasons why Conn Selmer may want to produce in China.

According to the Bennett brothers, China cheats. The Asian giant uses unfair advantages to under-bid them on a growing list of projects. It’s costing them business and costing the region jobs and they’ve had enough. On Monday, the tool and die guys became political advocates. They stood beside U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown on a shop floor at MAGNET, the Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network near downtown Cleveland, as Brown outlined his plan to punish China for unfair trade.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/10/proposed_china_currency_bill_g.html

Recently at Vincent Bach in Elkhart good union cross overs were fired because they were working too slow trying to take out all the defects while new hiries not trained were allowed to stay.  These union workers could repair so many defects that new hiries would take forever to learn. Now Amazon thinks they can try the same thing. WRITE AND TELL THEM NO WAY!

With billions of dollars in the bank, thousands of people want to know: Why did Amazon.com force warehouse employees to work at punishing speeds in 100-degree temperatures with no air-conditioning?
Conditions got so bad that 15 warehouse workers collapsed. After leaving workers in Pennsylvania to suffer extreme temperatures,

When you order a book from Amazon, do you know why it’s so cheap and arrives so fast? Because employees at an Amazon.com warehouse are literally working in a  sweatshop.

Amazon’s outrageous behavior includes:

• Demanding work at such backbreaking speeds that employees suffer injuries and face constant threats of termination for being too slow.
• Forcing employees to stay in an unsafe working environment where the heat index can hit 114 degrees.
• Relying on temporary workers to drive down wages and make it hard for workers to collectively stand up for their rights.

New details have emerged that working conditions are so horrendous – with temperatures inside a Breinigsville, PA, warehouse often soaring above 100 degrees – that Amazon keeps an ambulance parked outside.¹

http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/o/4022/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=54766

Seems it was just yesterday I was walking out the door with John Stoner explain how fast things could change in China, he just was listening his mind made up.

For 17 years, Tao Dong, now chief Asia economist with Credit Suisse, has been covering its breakneck growth. But when I met him in Hong Kong recently, he told me, “China as the world factory, the best time is behind us.” Labor costs are soaring by 40 percent a year, as migrant workers are becoming pickier, since there are more job opportunities at home. Also China’s one-child policy means there is no longer such a huge pool of young, dexterous workers. Bank lending is tightening and China’s currency is also appreciating by around 6 percent a year against the U.S. dollar, not quickly enough for US and European policymakers, but sufficient for factories on low margins to feel the pain.

http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/19/7763968-chinas-soaring-costs-could-help-american-jobs

Here a report that says it’s not that companies and people are not making profits it that it’s not being shared.

“Readers could be forgiven for assuming that nobody is winning in today’s economy,” the study states. “But as has often been the case in this generation, in fact productivity is high and growing, and incomes at the very top are ballooning. The growth is simply not being shared.”

The study said workers at the very top were the only to see their wages increase between 2000 and 2010, those in the middle and lower experienced the most wage loss. For example, the study says that only workers in the 90th percentile — or the top 10 percent — who had a median hourly wage of $31.92 in 2000, saw them increase to $32.68 in 2010.

At the 50th percentile — or median — wages fell from $16.02 in 2000 to $15.16 in 2010.

Another example was the growing gap in wages between the lowest paid workers and the highest paid. In 2010, the 90th percentile worker made 4.14 times what the 10th percentile worker, with a median of $7.89, made. In 2000 the gap was 3.91 times.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/09/american_dream_or_fantansy.html

Here a small company commented to the Cleveland Plain Dealer about how it was handled when they felt forced to turn over information to a big corporations, we too felt this way toward the bean counters that were running our strike from the company side.

Fortune 500 companies have bean counters working for them that only look at the numbers. They don’t take into account a company’s longevity or the fact that we sell quality products and take pride in meeting inspection and delivery deadlines. It’s nothing like dealing with a banker, who looks at you as a person. Banks take into account your personal assets, including your home, stocks and bonds. Your company is looked at as a separate entity, but bankers also consider ownership in the building.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/08/i_turned_over_financial_statem.html

“The smart way to keep People passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.’ –Noam Chomsky, American linguist andUSmedia and foreign policy critic.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp

Such is how Stoner hopes to win public opinion, by negating anyone in the position to speak whether it’s workers, management or his family.

    The community needs to understand what was done in Elkhart Indiana at Vincent Bach and Eastlake Ohio (King Plant) is being done now at Verizon as well as many other companys.  Why? because they (corporate citizen) can, because the general public does not care enough to voice their concern.

Striking Verizon Workers Are An Example to Us All