On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Amid all the worry that the USA is running out of workers, having arrived > at full employment, here’s a story from today’s WSJ that reports the > availability of 1,200 reliable folks. > > "Daimler to Lay Off More Than 1,200 at North Carolina Truck Plants > Falling demand for Freightliner trucks as U.S. industrial activity slows > In case you missed this one: http://boingboing.net/2016/02/12/watch-tone-deaf-manager-annou.html ---------------------------snip In this video, employees at the Carrier Air Conditioner factory in Indianapolis are gathered together by a manager who explains that the company's profit-margins dictate that all 1400 of them will lose their jobs as their factory is moved to Mexico. The manager's prepared remarks are fantastically tone-deaf, almost unbelievably so. Although there's not really any good way to spin the news that a company is moving a factory to a place where workers are paid less and enjoy fewer employment and industrial safety rights, there are surely bad and worse ways, and the manager here chose virtually the worst way imaginable. Short of actually wiping his ass with their pink-slips, that is. The speaker repeatedly stresses that moving the plant to Mexico will make the company's owners richer by increasing their profit margins, as though this will somehow seem to be a comfort to the workers who will soon be unable to feed their families or save for their retirement -- workers whose labor made every dime of the company's profits to date possible.
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