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Have manufacturing jobs have vanished to China, Mexico and South Korea?
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 963638" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>TJR,</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, we need more of Charlie Sheen's tiger blood...:bwahaha: Just joking</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree that the US has gotten complacent with things like dominating the car market for so many years and assuming they could never get knocked off their throne. Suddenly, the foreign auto makers started making better quality cars, the US auto makers started losing their market share....and the US auto makers have been playing catch-up ever since. That certainly did not mean we did not have the manufacturing capacity or ability to make better more desirable cars. It was very poor decisions made by the exectutives at the US auto companies. I think now that they US automakers nearly had their backs broken, hopefully they will be smarter now and never underestimate their competitors.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think that our quality of manufacturing has improved, but so have other countries, but our labor cost are higher than many of the other countries. Where we have been able to reduce our manufacturing labor cost, we can sell our products. It is just going to take a long time to transition to more automation. I think the unions have played a major role in delaying this transistion. But we also have to be able to provide jobs to a lot of displaced workers who's jobs have been eliminated. Germany has a higher labor cost than the US, but the specialize in very precise, high quality manufacturing, and can demand the consumer pay the higher price. I have heard, and agree with the statement that "Quality never goes out of style". The US just needs to find it's market and be the very best in the world...and people will buy it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm also saying that the US workforce has to be more flexible and able to see the direction of the future jobs and be willing to make the necessary changes to keep up with the changing world...It's not going to get easier, if anything it will get harder and things will change faster. Employer or union backed retirements pensions cannot be relied on in the long run. You need to be able to move or change directions when things stagnate at your old job.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 963638, member: 52972"] TJR, Yes, we need more of Charlie Sheen's tiger blood...:bwahaha: Just joking I agree that the US has gotten complacent with things like dominating the car market for so many years and assuming they could never get knocked off their throne. Suddenly, the foreign auto makers started making better quality cars, the US auto makers started losing their market share....and the US auto makers have been playing catch-up ever since. That certainly did not mean we did not have the manufacturing capacity or ability to make better more desirable cars. It was very poor decisions made by the exectutives at the US auto companies. I think now that they US automakers nearly had their backs broken, hopefully they will be smarter now and never underestimate their competitors. I think that our quality of manufacturing has improved, but so have other countries, but our labor cost are higher than many of the other countries. Where we have been able to reduce our manufacturing labor cost, we can sell our products. It is just going to take a long time to transition to more automation. I think the unions have played a major role in delaying this transistion. But we also have to be able to provide jobs to a lot of displaced workers who's jobs have been eliminated. Germany has a higher labor cost than the US, but the specialize in very precise, high quality manufacturing, and can demand the consumer pay the higher price. I have heard, and agree with the statement that "Quality never goes out of style". The US just needs to find it's market and be the very best in the world...and people will buy it. I'm also saying that the US workforce has to be more flexible and able to see the direction of the future jobs and be willing to make the necessary changes to keep up with the changing world...It's not going to get easier, if anything it will get harder and things will change faster. Employer or union backed retirements pensions cannot be relied on in the long run. You need to be able to move or change directions when things stagnate at your old job. ...Rich [/QUOTE]
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