Guess What? Outsourced USA Jobs
May Be Coming Back!Could it be the CORPORATISTS have developed a conscience?
Not on your life!
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Guess
What? Outsourced USA Jobs May Be Coming Back!
No, it's not because Corporhood America has become enlightened
therefor feeling compassion instead of GREED.
Guess What? Outsourced USA Jobs
May Be Coming Back!
Could it be the CORPORATISTS have developed a conscience?
Not on your life!
Will wonders ever cease? Never would I have believed that there is a chance of outsourced jobs returning to our American Shores without intervension from the Government . After all, the Corporatists’ are only after the bottom-line, they have proved this time and again with their off-shoring of so many jobs that once belonged to the American Work Force. They didn’t care about Americans losing their jobs and that it would most likely produce a mass slide into poverty. They didn’t care about the foreign workers who were forced to work for slave labor pittance. It was always about the bottom-line profits and making stockholders happy.
Now, it appears that the high OUT OF SIGHT cost to ship goods to faraway places is making the Fat Cats think again. Hey, it’s costing too much $$$ for SHIPPING AND HANDLING which is eating into our ACQUISITION of WEALTH and that, we all know, CAN’T BE TOLERATED! Hey we’ve got to do a 180-degree reversal and take the livelihood from the poor in foreign countries and bring it on back here to give these jobs back to the poor of this country. ACQUISITION OF WEALTH LEAK SOLVED.
Next time you grumble at the prospect of price increases on fuel and goods just remember IT’S BRINGING JOBS BACK TO AMERICA… What a way to run a country! Please read the article Made (Again) in the U.S.A. for some insight into a 180-degree reversal by the Corporate Personhood of America. thinkingblue
With annual sales of $6.5 billion from more than 100 disparate
brands, Jarden Corp. of Rye, N.Y., is what
used to be known as a conglomerate. It makes, among other things,
canning jars, matches, skis, toasters,
rope, tents, apparel, fishing gear, sponges, baseball bats and
football helmets--many of them under formerly
distressed brands like Coleman, Rawlings and Sunbeam, which
founder Martin Franklin and CEO James
Lillie have bought and rehabbed.
It's also at the forefront of a trend, the rehab of American
manufacturing. Wages in China, where many basic
goods sold by companies like Jarden have been produced cheaply
for decades, are rising rapidly.
Meanwhile, prices for ocean containers and marine fuel have been
volatile, swinging 40% for containers
and up to 150% for fuel in some periods. The result is a new cost
equation that is returning some
manufacturing to the U.S. This year Jarden will
"insource" $100 million worth of goods (in wholesale
value)--about 4 million items--to the Americas, mostly from Asia,
half of that to the U.S. That includes
Worth carbon-fiber softball bats, now in full-swing production in
Caledonia, Minn.; marine-antenna
castings in Greenville, S.C.; Quickie mops and brooms that have
swept into Lumberton, N.C.; and a new
line of Rawlings footballs that will touch down in Springfield,
Mo.
Because Jarden makes so many different things using so many
different processes, the company is keenly
attuned to sourcing: it buys certain kitchen appliances from
Chinese manufacturers because it won't ever
beat their prices in the U.S., but it makes canning jars in
Daleville, Ind., because no one else can do it better
for less. The calculation is ever changing, given variable costs
like energy and considerations like speed to
market. "We kept some facilities open and capacities
available for when the cost started moving," says
Lillie. So a match factory in Cloquet, Minn., that didn't get
extinguished to save $1 million is operating
profitably--even adding toothpicks.
This trend will likely grow. According to the Boston Consulting
Group, wage and benefit costs will
increase 15% to 20% annually in China as it becomes a
consumer-oriented economy. Export costs will rise
too as the country's manufacturing capacity tilts toward its
domestic market. "At the end of the day," says
Franklin, "keeping the factories open in the U.S. is an
important hedge for what we think is an inevitable
shift." So far, it's a slow one, involving just 1% of
Jarden's workforce--a couple hundred jobs. "We're in
front of the trend," says Lillie, who has the perspective of
running 65 plants worldwide. "A lot of people
are still focused on short-term margin enhancement." But for
U.S. manufacturing, it's the direction that's
important.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2095571,00.html#ixzz1ZirfNPCb