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I never asked if she got a raise. She did send my parents a $200 visa gift card, so I'm assuming she's doing well.
These companies need to understand that cheap labor isn't everything. Boeing tried to make it work for years and they still couldn't make the cheap labor of China produce the kind of quality that American workers produce.
I'm also an engineer. I say this in every interview I've had. It's not just how efficient I can work. I also work with a certain standard of quality. I take pride in my work. All anyone has to do is look at my work, and I make my work readily available to anyone who wants to see them.
I've seen work coming from China. They simply don't value the way we do here. That's why we see so much cheaply made products coming from over there.
It has nothing to do with "quality of work" for your sister's case. The problem is China has not master aircraft manufacturing technology yet. If they master it, your sister may lose job permanently.
Of course, she will not need to worry in her life because it will take few years for state-owned Chinese companies to master aircraft manufacturing technology.
"When their jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, then it's leveled again. But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country." -Ross Perot
My cousin is an engineer for Boeing. When Boeing moved from Washington State to China, she lost her job. After the epic failure of the operation in China and losing billions to the incompetency of Chinese workers and engineers, they moved back to Washington and she is now gainfully employed again.
Many companies have learned that "Chinese manufacturing" isn't as cheap as it first appears. I worked at a company where management insisted on sending our injection molded parts production to SEA. Between the long lead times, poor part quality, the high cost of sending our employees there to work contracts and address problems, and the great increase in engineering time to manage these vendors, it just wasn't worth it at the volume of products we were producing. Much of that volume was brought back to local companies.
Reshoring trend of moving operations back to U.S. gains steam
More manufacturers are bringing production back to the U.S. in an effort to cut costs and move closer to customers, among other factors, a new Boston Consulting Group survey says.
Seventeen percent of manufacturers are "actively reshoring," or moving operations back to the U.S., up from 13% in 2013, according to BCG's survey of 263 U.S. manufacturing executives in September.
What's more, the U.S. has surpassed China as the most likely destination for new factory capacity for goods sold in the U.S. Thirty-one percent of the executives with at least $1 billion in annual revenue said they're most likely to locate such facilities in the U.S. within five years, up from 26% two years ago. Just 20% would choose China, down from 30%.
That makes the U.S. the most likely destination for the new capacity, with the country outpacing Mexico as well. The reshoring trend began more than five years ago, partly reversing a decades-long offshoring movement that saw manufacturers take advantage of low foreign wages.
Of course they are. Barack Obama is leaving town and Donald Trump is coming in.
The trend of jobs leaving the US is reversed. US is seen as the more attractive place to manufacture goods.
The economic cycle continues. All the work of the current administration will be reflected in the coming years and whoever is sitting in the WH (Clinton or Trump) will take full credit for the turnaround.
Of course they are. Barack Obama is leaving town and Donald Trump is coming in.
Its been happening some years now, so maybe it doesn't make sense to credit Trump for it.
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