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Announcement next Tuesday at Greenville HQ. The governor and senator Lindsey Grahan will attend. This will be the largest economic development from the company in at least the last 15 years according to the Greenville News.
It is nice to get expansions and more jobs, but what Anderson county really needs is a completely new company to come into the area that will open up more job opportunities than the average expansion promises.
How about First Quality? Aren't they still hiring for their new facility?
Okay, let me rephrase what I said. It'd be nice if we had a new company come, that wasn't just replacing a company that left a year or two before (hence something that's a net gain instead of net balance) and isn't a low skill, likely low paying, manufactoring job. I appreciate quantity, but we need a higher quantity, and much higher 'quality'.
Announcement next Tuesday at Greenville HQ. The governor and senator Lindsey Grahan will attend. This will be the largest economic development from the company in at least the last 15 years according to the Greenville News.
In this fragile "recovery" economy, we'll take anything & everything we can get, than you very much! While it's great when we can win a corporate HQ, etc, from the sound of it, this won't be anything to sneeze at.
In this fragile "recovery" economy, we'll take anything & everything we can get, than you very much! While it's great when we can win a corporate HQ, etc, from the sound of it, this won't be anything to sneeze at.
I never said it was a bad thing. Quite the contrary, we need all the jobs we can get. That doesn't change the fact that we need quality jobs. Just because some people may be willing to take a minimum wage job even when they have a degree does not speak for the majority. That is a large part of why we retain as few graduates as we do. The majority do not want to hold onto something paying less than $13 an hour...not for long.
I never said it was a bad thing. Quite the contrary, we need all the jobs we can get. That doesn't change the fact that we need quality jobs. Just because some people may be willing to take a minimum wage job even when they have a degree does not speak for the majority. That is a large part of why we retain as few graduates as we do. The majority do not want to hold onto something paying less than $13 an hour...not for long.
I TOTALLY get your point, but I'm pretty darned sure that anything at Michelin or BMW (or GE, etc for that matter) isn't "minimum wage".
I TOTALLY get your point, but I'm pretty darned sure that anything at Michelin or BMW (or GE, etc for that matter) isn't "minimum wage".
No, they're not minimum wage, but they're not what anyone above a high school diploma should be looking for. They do their hiring through a temp company, so instead of giving the full amount of money to their employees or getting benefits, the employee gets a little over half what 'hired in' workers get and no benefits, with no telling when or even if you'll get hired in. Now BMW pays 'decent' wages at $15 an hour, but you can't have been fired for any reason within the past 5 years and most likely have to have a year or more of manufactoring experience. I believe the conditions are relatively the same at Michelin, though I'm not sure if they pay as much. It might also be some trouble getting in in the first place because I don't believe their turnover is quite as high as some of the other, 'less humane' factories (ie. Electrolux)
Like I said, manufactoring and jobs are good for us, but we need jobs that give people 'real' purchasing power to and an incentive to stay if they already have a degree or to spend time to get one if they don't.
Michelin does not hire through a temp agency and there are many careers for degreed professionals as well as professionals who do not have a degree. Michelin pays a competitive wage and consistently ranks as a great place to work. Michelin, BMW and GE employees have plenty of "real" purchasing power and have provided considerably capital into the local economy. Manufacturing jobs include many other jobs in addition to the "entry level".
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