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German automaker BMW to add 300 jobs through $900M expansion of South Carolina plant - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/german-automaker-bmw-to-add-300-jobs-through-900m-expansion-of-south-carolina-plant/2012/01/12/gIQAR0TatP_story.html - broken link)
Funny, the Germans look at the southern United States the same way we look at Mexico and China: as a source of cheap, compliant labor. I wonder if they hold us in contempt.
helps protect against currency fluctuations too, so it's not just cheap labor. America is also a huge market for german automobiles, so producing the cars here will significantly offset importation costs and taxes associated with shipping the cars in from Europe.
helps protect against currency fluctuations too, so it's not just cheap labor. America is also a huge market for german automobiles, so producing the cars here will significantly offset importation costs and taxes associated with shipping the cars in from Europe.
Fordist system the worker is paid relatively high wages in order to buy in large quantity the products turned out in mass production. From Henry Ford....
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More jobs created by BHO's adminstration?
LOL More like the opposite, BHO administration was actually trying to stop jobs being created. SC local government is luring all sorts of major companies into the state to set up and invest big money for a continued future.
I love the philosophy.
Either way BF goodrich, BMW, Amazon, etc... are all expanding operations into SC, including my company Boeing which has invested over $1 billion in setting up a state of the art facility, which the Obama administration was trying to shut down.
Its almost too bad Obama's administration smartened up and made the whole issue go away before it was brought up during elections. So it probably won't be as well known.
Funny, the Germans look at the southern United States the same way we look at Mexico and China: as a source of cheap, compliant labor. I wonder if they hold us in contempt.
That's warped. There are a variety of reasons why they're choosing to build cars here. One thing these foreign automakers prove in the southeast is that manufacturing jobs CAN work here and provide jobs for those who need them. This is something that needs to be replicated all across the country, as well as in other industries. And of course, it's all thanks to Republicans being business friendly, courting companies, providing incentives, and providing jobs for their constituents. This BMW plant as well as most of the southeast auto plants are non-unionized, so unfortunately I don't see the foreign auto industry going into any old northern industrial cities that are most desperately in need of jobs.
Who's paying for the expansion, BMW or South Carolina taxpayers?
Yeah, corporate welfare is about as business-friendly as you can get.
Business friendly translates to jobs for the people! Good jobs have been created from scratch. Actually, it's "insourcing" (haha), which is awesome. What do we need more than jobs???
That's warped. There are a variety of reasons why they're choosing to build cars here. One thing these foreign automakers prove in the southeast is that manufacturing jobs CAN work here and provide jobs for those who need them. This is something that needs to be replicated all across the country, as well as in other industries. And of course, it's all thanks to Republicans being business friendly, courting companies, providing incentives, and providing jobs for their constituents. This BMW plant as well as most of the southeast auto plants are non-unionized, so unfortunately I don't see the foreign auto industry going into any old northern industrial cities that are most desperately in need of jobs.
In other words you agree to some extent; cheap, compliant labor.
Do you think BMW will use E-VERIFY in hiring the workers?.....Surely they wont play the race card and descriminate against imigrants who need those jobs.
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