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Once lifted up out of poverty most people start to want a fair share of the profits they earn for the companies they work for......
SHANGHAI — Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world's factory floor.
A series of strikes over the past two months have been a rude wakeup call for the many foreign companies that depend on China's low costs to compete overseas, from makers of Christmas trees to manufacturers of gadgets like the iPad."
Companies Brace For End Of Cheap Made-in-China Era - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/08/ap/business/main6658453.shtml - broken link)
The really good news here is that some manufacturing is being brought back home to the U.S. .
Do you honestly think they wont move on to the next cheap labor country? Most of Africa is dirt poor, and there are still other Asian and Pacific rim countries to be exploited.
Really good news? If it takes as long for our leaders to bring back those jobs, as it took to outsource them,
I strongly suspect that it will mean little more than moving my body from the unemployment line to the cemetery.
The really good news here is that some manufacturing is being brought back home to the U.S. .
Haha! As if. The jobs will go to the next cheap up-and-coming country in Asia. Don't kid yourself; the vast majority of those jobs are never coming back here.
Haha! As if. The jobs will go to the next cheap up-and-coming country in Asia. Don't kid yourself; the vast majority of those jobs are never coming back here.
Do you honestly think they wont move on to the next cheap labor country? Most of Africa is dirt poor, and there are still other Asian and Pacific rim countries to be exploited.
Very true. All of Walmart's cheap crap will be stamped "Made in Mali", but otherwise it will stay the same.
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