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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- 10NBC News Rochester, NYWhere did all the Kodak jobs go? At the end of last year Kodak had a workforce of 20,6000 hundred in Rochester. That's down from 2002 when Kodak had 22,000 employees in Rochester. So, where did the jobs go? Most of Rochester's job losses went overseas. Kodak says it has major manufacturing operations in 13 other countries. At Kodak Park, you can't help but notice the empty parking lots. Acres and acres of them. Some of the people who used to work at Kodak may still live in the area but the jobs have gone elsewhere. Just last summer, the last single use camera was made in Rochester and 500 local people lost their jobs. Some found other jobs within Kodak only to face further job cuts. Kodak disposable cameras are now made in Mexico and in China, where workers reportedly are paid as little as a $1.00 an hour. Kodak employs 6,000 people in China. NEWS 10NBC has learned that the company has been outsourcing hundreds of information technology jobs to India. Because they are computer jobs, they can easily be done in a country halfway around the world where the yearly salary may only be one-fifth of what a U.S. Worker earns. In Guadalajara, Mexico, Kodak has a major presence. The manufacturing plant there looks like a smaller Kodak park. No one apparently tracks the number of local jobs lost overseas but according to the state labor department, the six-county Rochester metro area had 129,000 manufacturing jobs in 1990. At the end of last December, that number had shrunk to about 84,000. A net loss of more than 45,000 jobs or about 35 percent. Congresswoman Louise Slaughter late Thursday talked about U.S. Companies shipping jobs overseas in search of cheaper labor costs. 'The companies moved out where they could get people at deplorable wagesÃâÂI think the wages they got there have never risen above $5.00 a day.' As recently as the 1999 Kodak shareholders meeting, then CEO George Fisher said the company felt it was moving in the right direction. 'And today we're pleased to report as most of you know I hope that 1998 was a pretty good year for Kodak,' But re-structuring had already begun and Fisher acknowledged the impact it was having on the company. 'Oh gosh, we have put people through the ringer. 'And the unfortunate thing is, even though you downsize by say ten percent to use a round number, 90 percent who aren't downsized feel the uncertainty. They see a friend go, they see a relative go, they have a neighbor that lost his job.' Kodak would not share with NEWS 10NBC the actual number of jobs that have been shifted overseas. It does say it has brought a small number of jobs from those countries back to the U.S. and Rochester. http://www.10nbc.com/news.asp?template=item&story_id=10120 portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. Post : mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subscribe : mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Unsubscribe : mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Faq : http://www.portside.org List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web address : <http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/portside> Digest mode : visit Web site Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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