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Watch 1,400 US Workers Learn Their Jobs Are Moving to Mexico

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A crowd of Carrier manufacturing workers erupted into anger Wednesday as they learned their plant was being relocated to Monterrey, Mexico.
Carrier, an Indianapolis-based heating, ventilation and air conditioning company owned by United Technologies, announced in a statement on Wednesday that the plant would undergo a three-year transition to Mexico starting in 2017.

A man identified as company president Chris Nelson was recorded on camera delivering the news to a large crowd of employees, who reacted with jeers and obscenities.

One person can be seen walking out of the meeting.

At one point, Nelson pleads with the crowd to quiet down so he can continue with the statement, saying "I've got information that's important to share as part of the transition."

Watch 1,400 US workers learn their jobs are moving to Mexico - Yahoo Finance
 
I guess this was the purpose of NAFTA, to give US companies the option of moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico so they don't have to pay American workers their wages. Instead they can pay workers in Mexico a few dollars a day and pocket the difference.
Why did Bill Clinton sign NAFTA? The results have been disastrous.
 
truthatallcost said:
A crowd of Carrier manufacturing workers erupted into anger Wednesday as they learned their plant was being relocated to Monterrey, Mexico.
Carrier, an Indianapolis-based heating, ventilation and air conditioning company owned by United Technologies, announced in a statement on Wednesday that the plant would undergo a three-year transition to Mexico starting in 2017.

A man identified as company president Chris Nelson was recorded on camera delivering the news to a large crowd of employees, who reacted with jeers and obscenities.

One person can be seen walking out of the meeting.

At one point, Nelson pleads with the crowd to quiet down so he can continue with the statement, saying "I've got information that's important to share as part of the transition."

Watch 1,400 US workers learn their jobs are moving to Mexico - Yahoo Finance
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Knock off the minimum wage and reduce corporate taxes. Might help.
 
truthatallcost said:
I guess this was the purpose of NAFTA, to give US companies the option of moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico so they don't have to pay American workers their wages. Instead they can pay workers in Mexico a few dollars a day and pocket the difference.
Why did Bill Clinton sign NAFTA? The results have been disastrous.
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Why did H. W. Bush sign it first?
WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed the North American Free Trade Agreement yesterday, and his successor-in-waiting Bill Clinton immediately announced that he would not seek the treaty's renegotiation.
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Bush signs North American trade pact Clinton says he won't renegotiate - tribunedigital-baltimoresun
 
truthatallcost said:
A crowd of Carrier manufacturing workers erupted into anger Wednesday as they learned their plant was being relocated to Monterrey, Mexico.
Carrier, an Indianapolis-based heating, ventilation and air conditioning company owned by United Technologies, announced in a statement on Wednesday that the plant would undergo a three-year transition to Mexico starting in 2017.

A man identified as company president Chris Nelson was recorded on camera delivering the news to a large crowd of employees, who reacted with jeers and obscenities.

One person can be seen walking out of the meeting.

At one point, Nelson pleads with the crowd to quiet down so he can continue with the statement, saying "I've got information that's important to share as part of the transition."

Watch 1,400 US workers learn their jobs are moving to Mexico - Yahoo Finance
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And let's not forget. In return for our sending manufacturing to Mexico, they demand the US take their failed citizens and give them educations, healthcare, and housing, in order for them to send a big part of the money they exploited from the US back home. And they get outraged when we try to stop them.

Mexico, what an awesome, and forever failed, country.
 
joG said:
Knock off the minimum wage and reduce corporate taxes. Might help.
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Right, Then we can bring in Mexican "guest" workers who will be willing to work for those low wages. That will solve everything.
 
Ross Perot was right.
 
truthatallcost said:
I guess this was the purpose of NAFTA, to give US companies the option of moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico so they don't have to pay American workers their wages. Instead they can pay workers in Mexico a few dollars a day and pocket the difference.
Why did Bill Clinton sign NAFTA? The results have been disastrous.
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Your mind works in such a basic way it is amazing.

If this was just about the workers pay, the company wouldn't spend millions to move the operations to Mexico.

It is not a cheap operation to move operations like they are doing.
 
Mason66 said:
Your mind works in such a basic way it is amazing.

If this was just about the workers pay, the company wouldn't spend millions to move the operations to Mexico.

It is not a cheap operation to move operations like they are doing.
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Are you kidding? No company is pulling up stakes and moving to Mexico unless it benefits the bottom line. Minimum wage in Mexico is $5.10 a day. Gee, think that might be a motivation? If you don't than you're far more basic than I am.
 
Free trade agreements are excellent so long as they are made with countries that have similar values, wages, and living standards. Then again, producing a product with the least cost is usually the best thing to do when it comes to economies of scale.
 
truthatallcost said:
Are you kidding? No company is pulling up stakes and moving to Mexico unless it benefits the bottom line. Minimum wage in Mexico is $5.10 a day. Gee, think that might be a motivation? If you don't than you're far more basic than I am.
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You think that is the only factor, which is wrong.
 
don't blame me. i voted for Perot.

as for this particular mess, i heard about it on the radio. i have a question, though. will middle and upper management jobs be outsourced, as well? i'm sure that there are capable people in Mexico who could do those jobs at a fraction of the cost, and i mean, ****, it's all about the bottom line and the competitiveness of the company.

i can guess the answer, though. **** carrier for doing this.
 
American workers need to learn how they fit in and fare in a global economy. Very poorly atm. People buy on cost or quality, when American workers produce neither, then their jobs are not affordable to companies.
 
If this had happened 8 or 9 or even 10 years ago, it would have been all "Bush's fault" but I keep reading in this thread how the OP is only bashing the left unfairly?

Oh, the irony. And the humor, don't forget the humor.
 
DVSentinel said:
American workers need to learn how they fit in and fare in a global economy. Very poorly atm. People buy on cost or quality, when American workers produce neither, then their jobs are not affordable to companies.
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I haven't bought an American car in nearly 20 years, and I'll never buy another. They are my political enemies, and I will not contribute to their coffers.
 
iguanaman said:
Right, Then we can bring in Mexican "guest" workers who will be willing to work for those low wages. That will solve everything.
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You bring them in, if Americans are not willing or capable of competing, you mean?
 
joG said:
Knock off the minimum wage and reduce corporate taxes. Might help.
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We already saw that proud "American employers" will happily conspire to pay slave wages if allowed. Is history really that easily forgotten?
 
I DEMAND COMPANIES BE FORCED INTO USING LESS PROFITABLE WORKERS.

Now let me tell you about how those darn libruls always want to destroy capitalism!
 
Citizen.Seven said:
I haven't bought an American car in nearly 20 years, and I'll never buy another. They are my political enemies, and I will not contribute to their coffers.
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That sounds very patriotic. :roll:
 
truthatallcost said:
I guess this was the purpose of NAFTA, to give US companies the option of moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico so they don't have to pay American workers their wages. Instead they can pay workers in Mexico a few dollars a day and pocket the difference.
Why did Bill Clinton sign NAFTA? The results have been disastrous.
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I remember Ross Perot describing the effects of NAFTA as creating a "big sucking sound" as American jobs headed south. The Carrier people have been "sucked" I guess and I don't blame them for being angry. We often fail to understand that these trade agreements and treaties cause us to compete directly with other countries. The management at Carrier is left with no options if they wish to remain competitive in their industry.

And we wonder why middle class wages haven't risen. They never will until we start bringing the jobs back home.
 
Beaudreaux said:
If this had happened 8 or 9 or even 10 years ago, it would have been all "Bush's fault" but I keep reading in this thread how the OP is only bashing the left unfairly?

Oh, the irony. And the humor, don't forget the humor.
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That's because it's still Bush's fault...or Reagan's.
 
Mr Person said:
We already saw that proud "American employers" will happily conspire to pay slave wages if allowed. Is history really that easily forgotten?
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Then we will need to give up cheap t-shirts, mobiles and computers, i guess.
 
katzgar said:
sure make the US another Mexico
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Nope. Americans will have to become more productive, so laborers around the world are not the employees of preference. If we want to earn ten times their wages, we will have to produce better than they do.
 
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