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“This is great news for Michigan autoworkers, their families and our economy as a whole,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement. “I’m glad Ford recognizes that Michigan is home to some of the most innovative, hardworking people in the world, and has opened up opportunities for 3,000 new good-paying jobs in our state.”
Gretchen Esther Whitmer is an American politician serving as the 49th governor of Michigan since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a Michigan state representative from 2001 to 2006 and a Michigan state senator from 2006 to 2015.
Swing and a miss, there, Bob.
This has nothing to do with our President, honestly. It has everything to do with market forces and Ford's decision to stop selling cars (other than the Mustang) to the US domestic market.
Trump will be in Michigan tonite for a rally in front of an overcrowded arena. I bet he brings it up! That's what happens in a record economy, he's created.
Another lovefest.
Why haven't those 2 Democratic Senators in Michigan created any jobs there? oh that's right, they've been tied up with impeaching the President the last few years.
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Trump did build that!
Oh look! Credit to Trump unsupported by fact! As if the tax incentives granted by the state of Michigan had nothing to do with Detroit winning out over other locations.
But no worries, given enough time, the believers will no doubt credit Dear Leader with creating the universe.
The trend in any manufacturing is less workers. Automation eliminated most jobs in the Auto Industry and it will be responsible for the elimination of even more jobs in the future. There is a major shift going on in the industry from the old combustible engines to electric battery powered vehicles. This is going to cause upheaval, along with self driving autonomous vehicles. Old plants are not going to have much of a future with new technologies.
I have to agree with this. And as great as the 3k jobs are, people need to realize that the combination of those 3000, computerization, automation, and leaner manufacturing practices mean that they will accomplish the work that would have employed 3 to 5 times as many people 40 years ago. And they'll do it without 20 to 25 year employment leading to another 40 years of guaranteed benefits.
Back in the 70s, those same jobs, needing no college education, would average between 70-80k. Now they average 60,000k?
Yeah.
And that is why the U.S. auto manufacturing disappeared, that and low quality once Europe and Japan started producing good quality vehicles. I have an Uncle, now retired fortunately, who had one of those 70k Union Jobs and he would talk about getting together with his work friends at BBQ's and laughing about how much more they made than teachers or police and doing no real work for it.
Last time I looked, Ford's stock price was $9.44 per share and Facebook's was $203.67 per share.
Ford is a major manufacturer employing about 250,000 people worldwide not counting the people employed by its suppliers and Facebook employed 29,000 worldwide. A lot of Facebook's employees are in India involved in checking and censoring posts.
What these statistics imply is that manufacturing has little or no value and service companies like Facebook are the new goliaths. The modern world is screwed up.
I have to agree with this. And as great as the 3k jobs are, people need to realize that the combination of those 3000, computerization, automation, and leaner manufacturing practices mean that they will accomplish the work that would have employed 3 to 5 times as many people 40 years ago. And they'll do it without 20 to 25 year employment leading to another 40 years of guaranteed benefits.
Yeah....the industry is producing way more vehicles.....with way fewer workers. Best believe that in the not to distant future that thousands of more Ford assembly workers will lose their jobs. The industry is moving to tech workers and Engineers. The Detroit area should see a big growth in software developers and a different discipline of engineers.
Last time I looked, Ford's stock price was $9.44 per share and Facebook's was $203.67 per share.
Ford is a major manufacturer employing about 250,000 people worldwide not counting the people employed by its suppliers and Facebook employed 29,000 worldwide. A lot of Facebook's employees are in India involved in checking and censoring posts.
What these statistics imply is that manufacturing has little or no value and service companies like Facebook are the new goliaths. The modern world is screwed up.
If this was true, why did middle classes suddenly emerge in the low cost countries that we sent our manufacturing to ?
Is an $85 million dollar a year industry something to sneeze at ? Is employing 30 million people little to no value ? How can that many people be employed when it's all automated ?! Sorry, you've got it all wrong. The sad part, is we just gave this all away...
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