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Omaha Steve

(98,872 posts)
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 10:14 PM Jun 2014

AP: Ni hao, y'all: US hinterlands woo Chinese firms ($15 per hour)


http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140623/us--china-creating_us_jobs-b658693034.html

By PAUL WISEMAN

PINE HILL, Ala. (AP) — Burdened with Alabama's highest unemployment rate, long abandoned by textile mills and furniture plants, Wilcox County desperately needs jobs.

They're coming, and from a most unlikely place: Henan Province, China, 7,600 miles away.


In this Aug. 29, 2013 photo provided by the Alabama Governor's office, Gov. Robert Bentley, left, listens to Roger Zhang, Golden Dragon U.S.A. President, during a tour of the new Golden Dragon copper tubing plant, then under construction, in Pine Hill, Ala. Golden Dragon, the first company Bentley recruited to Alabama after being elected, will employ 300 new full-time employees in rural Wilcox County. (AP Photo/Alabama Governor's Office, Jamie Martin)


Henan's Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group opened a plant here last month. It will employ more than 300 in a county known less for job opportunities than for lakes filled with bass, pine forests rich with wild turkey and boar and muddy roads best negotiated in four-wheel-drive trucks.

"Jobs that pay $15 an hour are few and far between," says Dottie Gaston, an official in nearby Thomasville.

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AP: Ni hao, y'all: US hinterlands woo Chinese firms ($15 per hour) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2014 OP
$15 an hour in manufacturing is barely above minimum wage, and no maternity leave, no pension, no Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #1
And then they will import cheap labor HeiressofBickworth Jun 2014 #2

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. $15 an hour in manufacturing is barely above minimum wage, and no maternity leave, no pension, no
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 11:29 PM
Jun 2014

sick days, no right to unionize, this is the path to ruination, not prosperity...except for the salve job cheaters, they will do just fine, executives paid twice the amount of the next highest country.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
2. And then they will import cheap labor
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 11:38 PM
Jun 2014

and house them in shipping containers as we have seen the Chinese do in other locations around the world. Perhaps a couple of middle-management employees will get that $15/hour, but the laborers will get minimum wage or less. Profit will be made in the differential between shipping or not shipping product. The Chinese are NOT interested in Alabama's unemployment problem or any other altruistic matters. As with US corporations, it's all about maximizing profit. Congratulations Gov Bentley, you've been had.

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